Is it possible to set delay for remote on/off the same way it supports it for the motor running recognition? I would love that, so I could give few moments for the starter to get full before dumping power on the house battery.
@Persojet this may not satisfy your requirement but if the Start Battery is low, the terminal voltage will be low as the alternator charges at maximum rate to bring the terminal voltage up. As the battery charges the terminal voltage will rise. If the engine start feature of the DC-DC is used, the correct terminal voltage can be set so the DC-DC doesn’t start to charge the house bank until the correct terminal voltage is reached meaning the start battery must be reasonably well charged.
Yes, that wouldn’t work. I noticed the alternator is quite slow in compensating and it dips down all the way to 12 V before compensating the current drawn and boosting it back to 13.5 V. If I set the “shutdown voltage“ to 13 V and it is not allowed to dip at the beginning, it will limit the current to around 8 A. This is why I have disabled the engine shutdown detection completely and it’s just behind D+.
What I would love is the “delayd start delay“ option for remote on/off, that is in the engine shutdown detection:
That would probably need a firmware update and that might be wishful thinking of Victron actually implementing this
Hopefully in the future I’m able to set timer after remote signal is activated but not available currently.
@Persojet if you need a delay to the remote input you could simply implement a delay timer in the circuit feeding the remote input.
Delay relays seem a bit bulky solution but have to think about it. I’ll try to see how the charging behaves now that I just installed it and if it seems to struggle I’ll add the relay.
