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SOL-ARK 15K Inverter Open Loop vs Closed Loop. RECOMMEND CLOSE LOOP!

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The characteristic of the Inverter changes how it treats the battery when it is in CLOSE loop. I noticed is better regulates the battery then open loop. Example when the battery hit its low end. In my case 5% SOC, in close loop it maintains the battery by even adding 1W to it to keep the voltage exactly as it should be. VS when I was in Open loop it continued to drain the battery at 20W-30W and the voltage kept droping from 49 to 45 fast. See photo. There are also other facts differences in close loop that I prefer my batteries to stay set this way. Both the inverter and batteries are working perfectly and now its just fine tuning for optimal setting. Sol Ark Tech support did recommend to keep it in in Open Loop and they said its not a matter if it will happen or not, it is a matter of when it will change setting in the inverter and cause it to fault. I will keep my battieres in close loop and will deal with any faults as they come. Sol Ark need to support the batteries the customer choose. In this case I chose EG4 Wall Pro based on reviews, spec and cost/watt. If anything happen to my inverter as a worst case scenario, well then the GRID BOSS will be NEXT!

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So while in closed loop I set battery to go to 3% which corresponds to 50.69 and EG4 tech support I recall them saying 46 is 20% and 44.8 goes into BMS shutdown. 

Can someone from EG4 Engineering help clarify is 50.69V really 3% or is it around 46.xxV? Is there an actual SOC vs Volt chart graph specific to the EG4 Wall Pros?

@jered maybe you can point me in right direction?  

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@bluetrader222, it's challenging to directly correlate voltage with percentage. However, 50.69V would not seem to indicate a 3% charge level. How many cycles do the batteries have, and does the battery BMS also show 3%?

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@jared  Here is one of the 2 batteries that cycled almost 1 month daily empty to full. I had it on Voltage control and now moved it to Closed loop. 51.03V reads 0% SOC. I just took this photo 10/29/24 at 6:30am or so CST.

 

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@bluetrader222, do the batteries discharge to a lower level when set to open loop? Also, what battery settings are configured on the Sol-Ark?

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@jared Yes because of the setting I placed. I had the battery discharge to 48V and it seems to go down to 45-46V very fast from 50w drain.....  Now with close loop I am trying to figure out what determine the RANGE? This all the battery setting I can do in close loop.:

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@bluetrader222 That is very strange. What firmware version are the Wallmount batteries and Sol Ark?

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@jared From my photo i posted earlier at the top of the picture it shows Ver 1.0 is that the firmware version?

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@bluetrader222 This is the LCD version; however, the "About" screen will display both the BMS and LCD version details.

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So I set my SOC to 1% but the voltage is 50.92V which is higher then the 3% SOC. I understand during discharging it will read lower and during charging it will ready higher. So maybe this is the case but I am far off from 46V so really what is my true SOC? Am I really now 1%?? EG4 help 🙂 

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