Multiplus 48/5000-70 - Derating?

Usually yes. Hence i went back and rolled back both hardware and software.
Tried to set different combinations such as use only with that battery, or with another one, etc. but nothing changes. Still trolling down the charge limit with no apparent reason.

For example. This is what happening when the battery was reaching maximum desired voltage


This is completely expected and understandable. Victron is being told to lower CCL and acts upon it.

This is from 6 hours earlier



Note how its able to provide 4kw for a very short period of time, and then No notification from BMS to change anything, battery SOC was around 30%, it is able to get all the power it wanted

Cell voltages were under desired ceiling

Temperature measured on the exaust was 27C

The issue persist with Battery A, Battery B, both batteries in parallel.

Firmware now has been updated. VenusOS is at the latest version.

This also happens whenever ESS is used via setgridpoint or via KeepBatteriesCharged.

I also went through all the old graphs on victronEnergy, and found the first day the issue has started (15/02). On that day there were no changes (every restart of venus / battery driver causes a brief LowBattery Alarm so I know when there were reboots

Die you check “DC ripple”? You can create an advanced graph using AI biased.
Ripple should be less than 1.0V.
I have 0.2V.

Max 0.55 during the charging

Around 0.2 afterwords

Well, as often happens looks like it was a user error.

I have realised that the only bit which I have not checked were the battery terminals on the inverter side. They got loose to the point of me being able to move around the cable.

Once tightened, I have been able to sustain 4kw discharge for 10 minutes without getting throttles/high temperature alert.

Will see if the charging has been fixed as well (I suspect it will be) tonight.

Gosh, I wish multiplus gave some better indication of which thermals were causing the issue :frowning:

@iand given that your symptomps were very similar to mine, you might want to check just in case terminals on your side, just in case.

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Yep, charging curves also look fine now

I’ll have a look, but the behaviour has been consistent ever since the boat was newly built more than 2 years ago, so I doubt this is the problem. In fact, it was worse before I added the second external cooling fan…