How to use LiFePO4-Battery with CAN-based BMS on standalone system?

I want to use a SUNKET battery 5kWh and MP II 3000 for having power on a festival. The battery BMS can be operated in Victron mode and works with MP II. On an ESS, I would load the ESS Assistant and configure CAN Communication to the battery. Without ESS, CAN-BMS seems to be unavailable.

What are your recommendations to proceed?

Is it sufficient to set the upper charge limit accordingly (the battery has 16 cells, so 55V should work - resulting in 3.45V/cell - max charge voltage is given as 59,2V) and then just run it?

To my understanding, LiFePO4 can be floated

The system will be recharged from time to time via the 230V 1,5kW outlet in my car, a Mitsubishi Outlander Plugin Hybrid. The inverter powering the outlet runs from the 300V traction pack which is automatically or manually recharged by using the combustion engine and the internal generator.

I guess I will need an isolation transformer to connect the car to the MP II because isolation monitoring is carried out by the inverter by checking current flow against circuitry that seems to float at 115V relative to any of the two pins of the 230V socket and that circuitry is connected to chassis gnd.

The MP2s can not communicate with Can-Bus BMS directly. You either need a two-signal-BMS that will control the MP2 trough its digital inputs or a GX device that will communicate with the battery over Can bus and with the MP2 over VE.Bus

That should not be an issue in terms of recharging the 48V pack trough the MP2, but rather for whatever is connected after the MP2. In this case i would not charge from the car while also supplying loads behind the MP2

Does that means even without loading the ESS assistant the BMS-CAN-connection is functioning (with DVCC on)? Then I will proceed with including a cerbo.

the SUNKET battery uses CAN based BMS, I normally use them in ESS installations.

BMS CAN has nothing to do with ESS, it is used by DVCC to control charging.

thanks a lot :slight_smile:

@ASeitzinger
Did you get the Sunket battery running with the GX Device? I just recently had issues to connect the battery to a MP2 GX. Maybe I just had the wrong BMS cable. At least with the VE.CAN BMS Type A cable does not work…