2024-09-13 09:45 67/112 VictronConnect changelog and beta releases
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For the current hardware (Rev1), instead of switching the unit off the setpoints are
set to lowest value possible, i.e. 12V and 10% * Inominal for a 12V unit. This for the
reason that it cannot be guaranteed that a battery voltage is always present, which
is required for the charger to switch off. Some lithium batteries with build-in BMS
will cut themselves off in case of over/under voltage or temperature.
Note for Victron Smart Lithium batteries, above feature is not relevant. Since then
the BMS will disable the charge when the batteries are below 5°C, and also in case
of cell over voltage. More clearly: its not necessary to buy a Smart Battery Sense to
make sure a Phoenix Smart Charger stops charging a Victron Smart Lithium Battery
below 5°C.
Add tail current functionality
When the charge current is below the threshold for 1 minute, the absorption stage
is ended and the charger will switch to float/storage.
Add high battery temperature condition to programmable relay
Requires temperature sensor, e.g. Smart Battery Sense
Allow 0% recondition current
This fixes an issue with the VictronConnect lithium preset
Setting it to 0% skips the recondition stage, if enabled
Add Keep Alive support
This improves bluetooth connectability, with VictronConnect
Add support for settings changed
Add remark about voltages when charger has multiple outputs
Solar Chargers:
Add firmware v1.53 update:
Remove improvement, added on v1.52, of the remote voltage sense compensation to
speed up filtering. That improvement is postponed for now.
Fix bugs that caused the MPPT Control to get stuck on “CONNECTING” as well as
“FETCHING HISTORY”. The changes are (a) that text messages are now always sent every
2 seconds and no longer interrupted when a hex message is received; and (b) the History
total data is now always announced together with the history day0 data.
Includes changes in firmware v1.52:
Include low power mode for the small models. Idle current consumption (when PV is
around 0V) is reduced by around 70%.
Improve remote voltage sense compensation to speed up filtering when necessary
and improve voltage control response.
Change 100/20 48V default battery changed from 48V to auto detection.
Fix remote voltage compensation for small models. The voltage compensation of
small MPPTs did not consider some current depended voltage drops, causing the
MPPT to have a higher voltage setpoint, up to 200mV, depending on the MPPT
current. This FW version fix that.
Add firmware v3.02 for VE.Can and *.xup based firmware MPPT models:
Fix bugs that caused the MPPT Control to get stuck on “CONNECTING” as well as
“FETCHING HISTORY”. The changes are (a) that text messages are now always sent every
2 seconds and no longer interrupted when a hex message is received; and (b) the History
total data is now always announced together with the history day0 data.
Fix bug that resulted in the MPPT Control always showing the history of the moment that
the MPPT Control was first connected to the MPPT. (Fix announce of day 0 history data)
Includes changes firmware v3.01:
Change firmware version number to v3.xx range to avoid confusion between