# Charging battery during night time (lower price) and DESS selling with losses

**URL:** <https://community.victronenergy.com/t/charging-battery-during-night-time-lower-price-and-dess-selling-with-losses/46662>\
**Category:** Q&A and troubleshooting\
**Tags:** beginner, dess, cerbo\_gx, multiplus-ii\
**Created:** [7 October 2025 15:17 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/charging-battery-during-night-time-lower-price-and-dess-selling-with-losses/46662 "2025-10-07T15:17:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ejFinTre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f08c70/32.png) [@ejFinTre](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/ejFinTre)\
**Post date:** [13 October 2025 19:13 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/charging-battery-during-night-time-lower-price-and-dess-selling-with-losses/46662/9 "2025-10-13T19:13:32Z")

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This evening I noticed that the DESS started to charge up the battery at 21:30 even though my prices get cheaper at 22:00. The settings for this should be correct.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/3X/b/6/b607b43815496e78c0a1da9211c579a142a8af16.png)

There’s a 30min offset in both evening and morning:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/3X/0/5/05aacc95359215c7300c6eaf8f1c8fd73035d18a.png)

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/3X/b/f/bf7224ef9d9fa29e14ded471ef3b8ce12844ddf5.png)

@dognose , could you check this?

Thank you!

Kind regards, ej

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