Why is there not a simple charger priority setting in DVCC (or VE Smart Network)?
Currently it can really only be achieved by a system wide limitation in maximum charge current on DVCC and even then it is a bit hit and miss (plus you are limiting charge current).
As an example, my camper is sat at home on the driveway, batteries are fully charged and in storage mode across all chargers, I have “shore/mains” power permanently connected - There is a DC load of circa 15W coming from the various VE devices and the mobile WiFi router - It’s the middle of a sunny day (albeit a winter sunny day in the UK) but that 15W DC load is being picked up by the IP22 mains charger, not the 30A solar charge controller which according to the VRM portal hasn’t done anything for 5 days.
Why can’t I simply jump into the DVCC menu and be given a priority list to select from, where I would obviously select “Solar, Mains, B2B” in this instance?
I can do it on my kit in my house (not Victron), surely it should be the first thing you would want to do with Victron kit in a camper?
I have a Cerbo GX mk2, and everything is linked via VE direct with DVCC turned on… Yet there is still no charger “priority” option in DVCC settings, or anywhere else, that I can see.
I know you can semi-force it to do something similar, by limiting the system wide charging current in DVCC, but surely that it is somewhat of a “workaround” rather than it actually prioritising chargers as other systems can?
So that’s sort of what I was looking for, but not quite - That option requires an inverter/charger, whereas I have an IP22 standalone charger in my system (no inverter, as if I were on shore/grid power anyway, as this priority setting feature requires, then I wouldn’t need one anyway).
I wonder if this feature will be extended fully in the future, to those with stand alone Victron chargers, but most importantly so that any/all available solar power is utilised first, then the balance topped up by the shore/grid power, e.g. if a given load exceeds what the solar is producing at any given point.
In the current feature, it appears (though correct me if I am wrong) to only use solar power and only brings in the shore/grid charger after 7 days, at which point the priority feature turns itself off completely, which seems odd to me.
Why not simply be able to permanently prioritise solar over shore/grid, bringing in the shore/grid charger to top-up the deficit when a load exceeds the available solar, or to keep batteries maintained/charged when the sun goes down. Essentially blending two chargers, with one having priority over the other.