I have a question about Charge Voltage Limit (CVL) when using BMS connected via CAN bus. In my system (VenusGX and Multiplus II) I'm using BMS connected via VE.Can (Batrium BMS). I would like to set Charge Voltage Limit (CVL) to 56.75V, but it looks like precision is fix to just one decimal place, so I need to set it to 56.7V or 56.8V. Is there a way to have 2 decimal places (e.g. 56.75V). All settings in VE Configuration tool have precision to 2 decimal places, why CVL (and CCL as well) is different???

Kind Regards

I have a Lynx Shunt VE.Can (https://www.victronenergy.com/battery-monitors/lynx-shunt-ve-can) and I would like to connect some non-Victron kit to it to determine power in/out.

The BMV-700 appears to be a 500A / 50mV.

What values should I use for the 1000A Lynx Shunt VE.Can?

Hi Victron gurus,

Any suggestions on how to fix 2 x solar regulators connected via VE.Can to a CCGX dropping out? There is a VE.Can terminator installed at the end as well. Resetting the CCGX did not bring it back.

Thanks

Johnson

Hello,

Is my understanding correct that to connect Skylla-IP44 charger to Cerbo GX I need to use RJ45 cable ? It’s being referenced as VE Can, VE Bus and UTP RJ45 so I’m a bit confused.

Also, by connecting these devices I should be able to control Skylla charger through Cerbo GX remotely (on/off) ?

Thank you,

Alex

We have a MPPT 250/100 VEcan connected with VEcan to a Venus GX that has Temperature sensor connected i have noticed the solar controller is not reading any temp. i have temp & volt share turned on in the venus DVCC.

So i was going to put in a smart battery sense, but the sensor manual said not to with a venus connected as it confuses the system. is this still true?

I would like to get this sorted because we are add 2 more MPPT 250/100 VEcan to the system and want the controllers to sync

Hello,

Can a Skylla TG 48/50 charger synchronize with VE.CAN charge controllers to provide a controlled charge to a common battery bank where several VE.CAN charge controllers are already charging?

I thank you in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,

What are the field experiences of connecting a solar panel with an optimizer to a Victron VE.CAN charge controller?

I'm looking to expand the Victron equipment on my boat and keep seeing references to CAN and BUS....can anyone explain the difference between them?

I've seen CANBus talked about and as far as I understand the CAN is the "brains" and the Bus is the way that the data is shared. What is confusing me is the way that Victron has then separated and there are VE.Can to VE.Bus connections.

I have a common, main DC bus bar.

I am sending 48VDC to it from various energy sources: solar, wind, hydro, a DC generator, and AC energy converted to 48VDC.

To avoid overcharging the batteries after the 48VDC bus bar, I am using VE.CAN chargers that are connected between them as a master with slaves.

One of the problems I have is that each solar panel is connected to a single VE.CAN MPPT charger. The solar panel is too small in relation to the smallest MPPT charger.

Due to shading issues I cannot connect more than one solar panel per MPPT charger.

Is there a way to connect the solar panel to a smaller MPPT charge controller without interfering with the current arrangement of not overcharging the battery or having chargers in standby?

Could a GX display or some other device help me to achieve this? Could up to six solar panels be connected through a GX display, for instance, and could this group (solar panels and device) become a slave of the master MPPT charge controller?

I thank you in advance for any assistance.

I'm trying to figure out how to take advantage of the tank monitoring capabilities in the CCGX. I know for resistive sending units I need the VE.Can resistive tank sender adapter... My only problem is I have three tanks (Fresh, grey, and black) and these adapters cost $400 each!!! I would end up spending more than twice as much on these "adapters" as I have invested in the CCGX itself.

So I started looking at options. For RV holding tank monitoring: SeeLevel II is pretty much considered the standard for high end monitoring. When i was looking at their product offerings I noticed they have sending units that support "RV-C" which is a CAN Bus based protocol. Since the VE.Can adapter simply converts the resistance it gets from the tank into CAN Bus messages... If the SeeLevel II sends CAN Bus messages to begin with then it *should* be fairly straightforward to just connect these to my existing VE Can bus (I already have a CAN bus between the CCGX and my Orion Lithum BMS system)

That's assuming that the RV-C messages sent by the SeeLevel II are compatible with whatever message format the VE.Can adapter sends. I'm hoping someone from Victron can help me out.

I have a Smart Solar 150/100-Tr VE.Can connected by VE.Can to a MG Energy Master LV (With 2 x 200Ah HE batteries) and a Color Control GX. There is also a Multiplus 24/3000/70-16 connected by VE.Bus on the same system.

I'm having an occasional 'Error 67 - BMS connection lost' from the Smart Solar but I have unfortunately been unable to pinpoint what exactly is causing the issue. It never happens when the solar is isolated but randomly when solar is generating. It does not automatically recover unless I clear the issue by isolating our solar panels and reconnecting. Is this a known issue with Smart Solar VE.Can variants? Details are below. Many thanks!

Details:

DVCC Enabled

Smart Solar 150/100-Tr VE.Can Firmware v̶1̶.̶0̶3̶ v1.04

MG Energy Master LV Firmware v1.22

Multiplus 24/3000/70-16 (230VAC) Firmware v469

Color Control GX Firmware v2.51

Hi,
we are developing an aggregator including 3 Multiplus 48/5000. Our controller is able to communicate via the VE.Bus to VE.Can interface. Currently we can control the inverters and read system informations using proprietary message on the NMEA2000 but cannot get informations about the load because I could not find such VREGs. Which I do not really understand because these informations can be read in the case of other devices.

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Hello Community.

I have just installed a new SmartSolar Ve.Can Controller. After powering it up for the first time, and connected it the VictronConnect app. It first requested a Bluetooth firmware Update, which was successful. Then when i reconnected to the app it requested for a firmware update (V1.03). The update failed at about 30%. I tried to update again, but it fails a 5% every time.

It displays this...

Current Version : none

New Version : V1.03

X88 - communication error Vreg Ack time out

Ive tried unpairing and repairing, rebooting and restarting. With no success. The VictronConnect app is up to date (5.17).

My phone is Android. I have also tried using a iPhone. Also i have install a BMV 712, and a battery Smart sense, both have connected and updated with VictronConnect on my Android with no issues.

Regards Jamie

Hi, I have 4 Smart MPPT 150/70 Can Bus connected together, they are charging fine as a Total input from my panels on the BMV but the CCGX only shows the Watts from one of the MPPT's.

Cannot understand the complete lack of settings out there on how to actually setup the latest VE Can Victron MPPT's, with a Victron Multiplus, Victron BMV and Victron CCGX, I have got it working in a fashion but as you can see from above not quite right.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I have a colour control GX displaying Geny input AC loads, DC loads normally, but I have changed to 4 x MPPT 150/70 Smart Controllers with Ve Can Bus so I can link my Solar Arrays together, both ends of the chain have terminators fitted and controllers linked together and connected into the Ve Can Bus socket on the CCGX , all Victron Ethernet cables for the job, but the solar output will display. Any ideas. The MPPT's are all working correctly in that they are charging my batteries and controllable with BlueTooth and the total solar input shows correctly on my BMV, but just nothing on the CCGX.

Good day. I have a CCGX with a VE.Direct MPPT, VE.CAN Freedom battery, VE.BUS Multi and a VE.BUS Digital Control. I want to monitor a tank as well. Will the VE.CAN Resistive Tank Sender Adaptor be able to communicate via VE.CAN as well. The battery bank is using the VE.CAN port

Is it possible to adjust the transmit frequency of the current data (PGN 0x1F214 / 125708) from the Lynx VE.Can shunt? In our system it only seems to broadcast about once every 1.5 seconds. We're trying to feed the data via CAN to an alternator regulator and there's too much latency for the control to stabilize.

More generally, is there any documentation available for the Lynx Shunt VE.Can standalone? All I can find is the manual for the Lynx Ion w/ Shunt, which seems quite a bit different.

Thanks.

Hello,

Right now I have connected my BlueSolar charge controller MPPT 150/70 CAN-bus directly to the BMV-702.

Can I connect the BlueSolar MPPT 150/70 directly to my NMEA2000 backbone using the VE.Can to NMEA2000 cable and also do the same for the BMV-702 (directly to the backbone using the same cable )?

Regards
Steen

Good Evening Victron Team,

The Multiplus II 3000 GX manual makes it very clear that you don’t support the use of VE.Can Solar Chargers on the VE.Can port inside the M2GX.

I have however successfully been running a 150/85 MPPT on it.

Considering that my application will not have a Can BMS in the foreseeable future, may I please request that the unsupported compatibility not be removed in future versions of either the VenusOS or M2GX Firmware?

Kind Regards

Randolf Wenhold

Hi,

I need to connect two CAN devices to a Color Control GX.

If I understand correctly that means I need two RJ45 terminators on the Color Control?

If the above is true I would need four CAN sockets (2 for my CAN devices, 2 for the terminators). Is it possible to plug two 'Y' RJ45 splitters into the Color Control with a terminator on one input and one of my CAN devices on the other?

So the final proposed setup would be:

Terminator--\

-- 'Y' splitter ---> Color GX CAN port 1

Can device--/

Terminator--\

-- 'Y' splitter ---> Color GX CAN port 2

Thanks for any help.

Ben

Good day all,

I need to makeup a communication cable from my Pylontech Low Voltage Hub Can-Out to the CCGX urgently. Can someone provide me with a diagram showing the wire colours and corresponding pin out sequence for the above cable? Can I use a normal Cat 5 UTP ethernet cable for this? Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Firmware 2.32 corrected wifi loss and that was good.

Now I have the following problem for a few time and I suspect release 2.33.

I have a full "On-line" setup, where the multi is inverter only and a Skylla is charging from micro hydro OR, in summer, from generator if the solar panel+BlueSolarMPPT is not sufficient.

Before I start the generator, I switch the Skylla off until it is seen on the CCGX and the power limit can be accounted for. Then, I switch the Skylla on and everything is fine.

Now (2.33 ?) the Skylla is no longer found/seen by the CCGX when the generator starts. It's always listed as "deconnected". I have to manually reboot the CCGX for the Skylla to be listed.

If I don't reboot the CCGX, the Skylla starts at maximum current and overloads the generator.

No matter how long I wait with the Skylla powered and switched off, it never gets seen by the CCGX until rebooted.

We are to install Trojan Trillium LiPo Batteries on a vessel that will have 8KW Quattro's and a Colour GX system, the Trojan lithium batteries have an inbuilt BMS that can communicate/ report status via CanBus.

Can I connect and display this information on the Colour GX using the VE.Can connection?

I will be installing a Victron MPPT to control my solar charging and i'd like to be able to see this information remotely.

I currently have a BMV-712 connected to my NMEA network with a VE.Direct-NMEA connection.

If I connect the MPPT to a Venus GX with a VE.Direct cable and then connect the Venus GX to the NMEA network with a VE.Can-NMEA cable, will the Venus GX "see" the BMV-712 that is on the NMEA network?

Can the Venus GX transmit any other information that is available on the NMEA network to the VRM (wind, speed, depth etc.)?

Dear Victron exprerts, please I have question about device control function via CAN Vreg messages, in documentation is described 0,1,2,8,16 bits in 0x0202 register for set device mode on/off/inverter,charger only. But I would to know about VE.Regs or NMEA2K supports any other remote control functions like: force discharging, set power , current, charge setpoints.

Thank you

I currently have 5KVA Multiplus with a 150/70 VE.Can MPPT charge controller using ESS with CCGX.

My current VRLA batteries are in need of replacement and was looking at replacing them with Pylontech US2000B or US3000 batteries. According to this article its not possible

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/battery_compatibility:pylontech_phantom

Is this still that case as it its not possible at all or are there limitations?

Hello,

We would like to read the state of charge (SoC) of a battery using the BMV700 and the VE.Can interface.

It seems that the correct PGN is the 0x1F212 (DC Detailed Status, page 3 of Manual-BMV-NMEA-2000-EN.pdf ). But we can't find the document describing the details of this message in the document.

Is that the correct PGN to read? In this case, is there any document describing this message?

Maybe the information SoC 0x0FFF (see page 25 of VE.Can-registers-public.pdf) is the correct information to get? But this information is in read/write access and we are not sure that's the right information?

Thank you so much for your help!

Cyril

I am building a ve.direct/N2k interface for my Bluesolar MPPT 75/10 and hopefully have the information displayed on my MFD.

The Bluesolar with ve.can interface are supposed to transmit this PGN but detailed information is missing in all Victron documents I can find.

This is what I know from NMEA.org

NMEA.org:

127750 Converter (Inverter/Charger) Status

Field # Field Description

Provides both state and status information about a Charger, Inverter or combined Inverter / Charger.

1 Sequence ID

2 Connection Number

3 Operating State

4 Temperature State

5 Overload State

6 Low DC Voltage State

7 Ripple State

8 NMEA Reserved

What I am missing is data types for each field and what data to expect.

Regards,

Urban

Hi,

There is an installation I am involved with where during commissioning the shunt was installed with the batteries on the right hand side and the loads / charging sources on the LHS. Is there anyway to solve this remotely? i.e. teach the shunt to recognise current flow in the other direction?

Alternatively, how might we best modify the settings to get the site working properly? I am hoping I can still display SOC somehow and hopefully use voltage to temporarily control generator start / stop via the CCGX