# Activate AES in DESS mode

**URL:** <https://community.victronenergy.com/t/activate-aes-in-dess-mode/49539>\
**Category:** Q&A and troubleshooting\
**Tags:** dess, professional\
**Created:** [30 November 2025 12:52 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/activate-aes-in-dess-mode/49539 "2025-11-30T12:52:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [30 November 2025 17:41 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/activate-aes-in-dess-mode/49539/2 "2025-11-30T17:41:13Z")

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Something like this would be great. We have a system consisting of 4x 10k Quattros, and leaving the inverter/charger circuit active during long stretches of planned “idle” activity causes ~500W of consistent battery drain.

One idea in the past was to allow users to disable Peak Shaving completely (even above min SOC) for systems that don’t require it. So if the system is scheduled to idle at X%, then the inverter/charger circuit would turn off (as if the system were at the ESS min SOC threshold).

> [@Bug?: Peak shaving drains battery permanently despite minimum SOC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/bug-peak-shaving-drains-battery-permanently-despite-minimum-soc/17636/17):
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> Hi @JeroenSt I’ll look into it. Might take a short while; v3.64 is under focus now and one by one people are out of office, me including

Unfortunately I don’t think it made the cut of v3.7 of Venus, but I hope we can make the case for v3.8

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