Battery pulse charging from grid overnight

3 comments started 2023-10-05 last 2023-10-07
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#1 westwallpoma

Hi all,

Quick question here. With the dreadful weather of recent, and therefore the tumble-drier being on half the day, my battery has barely had a chance to fill up. I've been noticing regular blips through the day and overnight when the battery drops to 3 / 4 % ...

Is this normal behaviour? I'm assuming it's some sort of protection to ensure the voltage doesn't fall below a certain level. Would you recommend any adjustments / settings to avoid this behaviour ; e.g. to tell the inverter to stop consuming from the battery when it falls to a certain level - or is it fine just to let it maintain the charge in such a manner ?

I did have GivTCP running and I noted the reported capacity dropped from 9.5kWh to 6kWh a couple of days ago. No such indication from the parameters in the givenergy.cloud app stats, nor "Monitor for GivEnergy Inverter "which is still reporting a capacity of 185Ah.

Thanks in advance.

#2 positor1

If the battery drops below 4% it will do a recovery charge from the grid if there is no solar to protect the cells.

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#3 Russell_B

I’m looking at telling the system to keep some in the can above reserve to avoid these grid charges. What inverter are you on?