I am thinking to extend my system by adding another Gen 3 5.2 battery to my current system which has two Gen 1 (5.2) batteries. The software for the Inverter is D0.316-A0.316 and both batteries have 3020 firmware. The installer will add the new battery next to Battery 2. Can anyone see any possible issues? e.g. firmware with the 3rd battery? Do all batteries need to have same firmware? Thanks Andy
the firmware shouldn’t be an issue although you could upgrade the Gen 1 batteries to 3022 which is the latest firmware.
The new battery is actually 5.12 kWh (100% depth of discharge) and I believe it has to go first in the chain.
The issue you have of the chain stopping charging when one battery gets to full or empty will be slightly more compounded by the addition of a 3rd battery so you won’t be able to get full capacity all the time, but you can certainly mix and match and newer firmware allows for this.
Thank you very much for this information - much appreciated
my inverter set up is FD2324F159
Can you update the battery firmware from your end? I believe you did it for me in May
AndyZ900rs Hi Andy. We're all end users sharing/learning together, this is not a formal support channel so we can't do this for you. Sorry.
You might want to redact your serial number from your post.
Formal support is here - https://givenergy.com/support/
Thanks - how do I remove/redact a post?
Can a moderator please flag my post with my inverter reference number in it and get it deleted please!
AndyZ900rs
I think this site is controlled by GivEnergy, but as previously posted I dont think anyone actually reads or reacts to comments on here
AndyZ900rs Thanks - how do I remove/redact a post?
Press … and edit…
Mouton
I don think the EDIT appears once a following post has been placed.
SteveCook Thanks. Forgot it’s different in this one…