Lux ac battery controller

EVandPV

TangoGolf said:

How do you guys know which  Lux firmwares to download. I've got six showing in the app? 

The last time I queried this with Luxpower, they said the firmware available on the app was just for hybrid units.
Although if you do have a hybrid, I've no idea what one to use, sorry. Probably best to check with Luxpower or your installer/supplier.

Solarchaser

EVandPV said:

philologus said:

Has anyone increased their production by installing and linking into their system a small wind generator?

I was thinking it would augment the panels, especially in the winter, and would help to keep the batteries topped up all day and night as long as there is enough wind. I live on the NE coast so there's always wind

It crossed my mind to stick a small vertical axis one on the roof but I'm guessing you'd need permission and the whole thing could probably turn out to be more bother and costly than its worth for the small savings it would make.
But I'd be interested to hear if you look into it any further or if anyone else has done something along these lines.

I've researched vawt a few times as they look safer and in theory catch wind from any direction,  but in reality I've not seen any real working vawt's or certainly not any that produce decent numbers, and any that I've seen "in the wild" seem to be broken after a year or so of use.

I was thinking a car alternator would be ideal for it, 12v 100a =1.2kw even 1/4 would cover baseload, but they just don't seem to live up to the hype (I'd be over the moon honestly if you can prove me wrong)

philologus

I was hoping to find one that would just keep the batteries charged to reduce the number of cycles and so extend the life of the battery.

The cable I mentioned above arrived but it is going back. It is far too complicated for this little brain of mine. I read the intructions on the pen drive and gave up without even unpacking the cable itself.

Has anyone else bought one and installed it?

EVandPV

philologus said:

I was hoping to find one that would just keep the batteries charged to reduce the number of cycles and so extend the life of the battery.

The cable I mentioned above arrived but it is going back. It is far too complicated for this little brain of mine. I read the intructions on the pen drive and gave up without even unpacking the cable itself.

Has anyone else bought one and installed it?

Using one I cobbled together myself from 2 suitable cables.
Must admit, I had a job getting the correct drivers to install.
To be honest, the batteryview software isn't something you tend to use that much anyway. Handy if you've just added another battery module to keep an eye on it while it syncs with the rest of the stack and to check the SOH occasionally.

philologus

I had one two-year-old battery and have added three new ones  so I wanted to keep an eye on it but I don't think it's worth frying my brain.

I might just try balancing them (if that isn't too dificult).

The same number of green lights are on so I assume that they are as near balanced as necessary.

EVandPV

philologus said:

I had one two-year-old battery and have added three new ones  so I wanted to keep an eye on it but I don't think it's worth frying my brain.

I might just try balancing them (if that isn't too dificult).

The same number of green lights are on so I assume that they are as near balanced as necessary.

They might take a few days to get in sync with your original battery but they should be fine after that.
Mine took about a week when I added a 3rd battery.
Didn't do any balancing, just left them to sort themselves out.

philologus

So.... is the information in this clip wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTM-YMFiyns

EVandPV

That's how to balance them if they have different numbers of green leds.
If they all have the same number of leds, I wouldn't bother.

The battery management system in the Pylontechs is pretty good at taking care of balancing and if one module is out of sync with the others, they will sort themselves eventually.

Solarchaser

Yeah I agree, and to be honest even when I've done the disconnected balancing I've not been convinced it does anything after the first 10 mins, they all seem to go to sleep

philologus

With help from their tech support I managed to get the cable to work and I have now been able to look at what the batteries are doing.

I've  got a red error code 12c in 'alarm protecion information'

Does anyone know what this is please?

In the Power information window at address 1  it says 'basic state- syserror.'

Any clues?

I asked the seller, Ben, and he said I could switch all batteries and Invertor off for 30 mins and see if the code cleared. If it didn't he gave me some email addresses to contact Pylontech.