I don’t know which battery is which in my installation.

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khargreaves asked Dec 19, '22

I don’t know which battery is which in my installation.

On my sailboat, I have 5 Victron 300 ah smart lithium batteries my installation. They were not identified as to which battery is which when they were installed. Using Victron Connect, I can see all the batteries, their serial numbers and their data but I cannot tell which data goes with which battery. I would like to know identify each battery without removing them which would be very difficult on my boat. Is there a way to do that? I have tried to remove the 3 wire interface cable from one of the batteries but that just shut the whole system down. I have a Cerbo GX and a Lynx 500 Smart BMS. All this was installed in November of 2021.

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Answer 1 · 2022-12-19T14:41:22Z

Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) answered · Dec 19, 2022 at 02:41 PM

@khargreaves

You can assign a custom name to each battery in VictronConnect. See the VictronConnect manual for details.

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Matthias Lange - DE ♦ commented · Dec 19, 2022 at 05:01 PM

But this should have been done during the installation or the installer should have placed the spare stickers (there are 2 with each battery) with the serial numbers on a place that is visible after the installation.

Now it is too late for that.

@khargreaves You can try to heat up the batteries on the top individually with a hairdryer to identify them.

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khargreaves commented · Dec 19, 2022 at 05:30 PM

Thanks but I don’t know which one is which. But I like the heat up the batteries idea if I cannot do it some other way.

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