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February 7, 2025 1:50 pm
First time poster, longtime subscriber to Panbo!
Here's my question and maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
I have had my two Epoch 460 amp V2 Elites for about a week and a half.
I have multiple questions about this out there on Book of Faces, sailinganarchy, and I recently joined the trawler forum (ex-wife has a trawler and I help her out with that beast...). I will get a few questions and hints and then nothing.
My setup is two Elite batteries, wired in parallel, and brand new Victron Multiplus 2000, Ekranos and the 500amp shunt.
I cannot get mine to talk to the Ekranos. The "master" I can see but nothing else and hardly any info about the battery. Something is not right. I was told that I should see the master and the slave once I open the master batteries tab on the Ekranos screen.
The DIP switches are set per the manual. The batteries are updated to V2.3 (this might be the problem as I heard from Brian on DYI Tito that the firmware should be V2.5. Anyone know the version of firmware is current?).
I am at a total loss as to what I am doing wrong.
I have the "master" battery wired with the blue comm port running to the Ekranos. That is VE.CAN and set to 500 bit LV. Then the CAN port on the "master" is plugged into the blue port on the "slave". I turn the batteries on and just see, with very limited info, one Epoch battery.
When I click on the Epoch tab, another screen opens but it only tells me the firmware version and some other info. Nothing about the cells.
Would love a bit of info here on what the hell I am doing wrong!
I think that my DIP switches are wrong (they are set per the manual however) OR the batteries have some sort of bad wiring in them. I have calls out to tech support with Epoch and emails etc. Still waiting.
Thanks for reading!
February 7, 2025 2:08 pm
Marcus,
It doesn't sound to me like you've done anything wrong. The V2 batteries are designed to create a single virtual battery composed of all the batteries in a bank. In that bank, you should (vut currently can't) see bank details including total capacity, highest and lowest voltage cells, temperatures, etc. There is a communication issue with the battery and that's preventing that information from making it to Venus OS. So, for now all you see is summary data for the bank like SOC, voltage, and current. To confirm, the current values measured for the battery named Epoch should reflect your entire load on the batteries, not half as it would if only one battery were communicating.
I recognize this is frustrating and I'm working with Epoch on getting these issues resolved. I believe 2.3 is the current firmware version but I'm not near a battery right now to confirm.
-Ben S.
Publisher, Panbo.com
