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Eg4 lifepower4 v1 bank where only one battery will charge and discharge.

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We had issues with our xantrex inverter and since then our batteries have been acting very strange. The main battery (dip id: 0) was orignally discharging and charging while the other ones were in standby ("idle" on the bms test program). I was advised to disconnect batteries and update firmware to 3.4. I did this and tried running them not daisy chained and then a different battery started cycling while the others remained idle. We left the property for the winter and while we were gone one battery (id: 2) somehow fully discharged and was down to 44 volts. I have slowly brought that up to 49.7 and all lights are on but it still wont go into charging mode, it just seems to trickle charge while connected the mppt or other batteries without going into charging mode. Inverter works with the one battery or generator. 

 

Steps I have taken:

Upgraded all firmware to 3.4

tried running stand alone as well as daisy chained

Program bms tools v1 will say online but will not load any info so I have been using bms test to do all of this.

 

 

Setup:

4 eg4 lifepower4 v1 batteries in parrelel connected to bus bars (same length and guage cables connecting to bus bar.

xantrex xw6848 inverter

xantrex mppt 100 60

 

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EG4 Eric
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Are you charging and discharging batteries by voltage? Meaning you have Voltage parameters set on the inverter.

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@eric Yes, all to the eg4 settings, as well as my mppt charger. Currently it says its in float while one battery is at 100% while the others are at around 52 volts and the one low battery is at 49.9. All three are claiming idle and will not go into charge or discharge.

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in float its providing 54 volts to the batteries and 3 of them are not responding. When the one battery discharges to charge back up its set for 56.2 

 

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EG4 Eric
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@erickhj 
How do you have the batteries connected to the inverter?

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