Got it powered up last night. Charger works. Just need to get the controls wired up now. And tidy wiring up.
One thing I didn't know, it seems the Victron charger will only pass ac thru if it's turned to inverter mode?
WRONG, IT JUST TAKES A FEW SECONDS FOR IT TO KICK IN.
I am so freaking sore. What idiot designed this fucking truck?!?!?!
48" deep, 9" wide.... My wires have to run at the VERY back edge.... Put both arms over your head, shimmy in, brace feet against other wall, breathe out and push.... Ouch. I am not a small person...
After drilling two holes (because the first one was too small.....) Feed long stiff wire through and try to hit the hole in the upper shelf. Curse repeatedly. But I got it, take one VE direct cable, one power cable, and one ethernet, and hope like hell you can get it back thru the little hole.
Removed the BMV, cut the hole for the Color control, and mounted it.
Remounted the BMV (you need it for the battery calculations, the color control wont talk to the shunt directly....)
And powered it up. No programming. I was exhausted at this point...
Now the annoying part. The color control will not work with the bluetooth dongles.... WTF. I guess I will see if I can return the VE to USB I bought.... Stupid. It will work on wifi.... But you have to use their wifi dongle they like. And that's a shit load more setup. I guess I will try to learn some networking..... If I can get on the house wifi from where the truck is parked that might be cool though.... Remote data logging is possible I guess. More to learn.
IF YOUR READING THIS AND THINKING OF VICTRON STUFF GO WITH THE CERBO. MUCH MUCH BETTER IT SEEMS THAN THE COLOR CONTROL. 99% SAME FUNCTIONS, TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE, AND NOT WIFI RELIANT.
Oh and on the programming/networking front.... you have to use THEIR wifi dongle.... It would not recognize any of the ones I had.....
But now it knows its a DC system and will show that on the main screen. And telling it its a vehicle adds an inveter on/off toggle to the front of the other main screen.
Alright smart people...... Help me out here.
Installed batteries, charger etc. Set the charge profile to what the battery mfg speed. 14.7 bulk, and I don't remember float... According to the meter it was full, taking in no more Power(plugged in for a couple days).
We took it out this weekend, and by this morning batteries were dipping to 12.0 under load.... Shunt showed 95ah drawn out, and ~87% left (set at 500ah).
Battery temp was 39.8F (on the closet ones, the outer wall may be a little colder, but there is an air gap there)
WTF is going on??
PRETTY SURE ITS JUST THE COLD..... VOLTAGE STILL DROPS TO 12 ISH AROUND 85%
And otherwise the weekend was pretty damn decent.