I have two AMPTRON 200Ah Slimline Bluedge LiFePO4 batteries and they only have one CANBUS port on them. The batteries are wired in parallel.
I presume that I connect both of them to the Cerbo GX.
Will the Cerbo see them as separate or as a bank? If separate, how do I tell the Cerbo they are a bank? Or do I have to go back to using a Shunt?
Thank you for any assistance.
Kind regards,
Carlo.
Since they are not on the battery compatibilty list, i dont think you will get them working
take a look at this for more info:
Use the shunt for overall SOC.
If they do communicate with the cerbo that would be a bonus for monitoring, but i would not use them for control there may be unexpected behaviours especially since the system is designed for single master st up and technically you would have two.
There are mods for battery aggregation, but first you need to establish they talk and share information correctly.
The basic problem with connecting two CAN bus battery sources to one port on the Cerbo is that the batteries will probably not recognise each other, and use different CAN bus addresses for the data. Even if they did this, then the Cerbo would not reconise the 2nd set of data. as there are two CAN channels into the Cerbo, one battery could be connected to each, but as mentioned above, it depends IF the battery data is in the right format for the cerbo to understand. There are many different proprietary protocols out there.