Do I need a smartshunt with orion xs 12/12 50a charger for low temp charging control? The BMS does not have low temp charge protection on the output Lithium Battery. Upstream is AGM Battery.
A Smart battery sense (Smart Battery Sense - Victron Energy) will achieve what you are needing.
There are numerous other benefits to the Smartshunt or the like (with the correct Temp sense cable) as well over and above the temperature sensing though, so would still consider it.
Hope that helps
Or ofc just connect a 5€ thermoswitch to the enable input.
Hi Chris, thank you for the response. I ended up getting both smartshunt and battery sense for my project. I just now have to finish the project to put them to use.
Cheers!
Sorry, its one or the other, you can only use one bt-network at a time.
Hi Ludo,
The Battery sense will network across any Smart Victron device that is part of its VE.Smart network, and the information (temperature mainly in this case) can be used by those networked devices, incl solar controllers and XS Orion.
cheers
So can the smartshunt…but only this has current, voltage and temperature