So I ran the boat for the first time with the new setup, and have a few issues I need some guidance resolving. Twin WS500’s running the 80A stock Denso Alternators on Yanmar 6LPs. I have LTO ...

Tank inputs works fine, I have 2 water tanks and one diesel. I found an old tread on Victron Community about this but no answer: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/59623/cerbo-gx-o...

TAR,   Well, that is disappointing. That was one of my motivations for installing the Cerbo. No, I haven\'t gotten as far as trying to get temperatures and tank levels displayed at the helm, yet...

Thanks. Yes I have one temp sensor on each alternator to the Cerbo. But I have not found an way to get the Cerbo to send this temp data over NMEA2000, have you? Battery monitors, VE-BUS de...

Good luck getting Raymarine to mod their firmware with this feature in our lifetime.  ;-/ I have a similar set up: Raymarine, Victron, Wakespeed, Balmar.  So, another idea....   I ran a separate...

A quick follow up,  we have verified this behaviors with one of our Beta testers and I have an Email out to REC -- REC and Wakespeed to work to improve the EOC handling.   And noting als...

This is a great example of what happens when the Smart regulator can not talk with the BMS.  With an integrated system the BMS will send a signal to the WS500 to start to taper back as it approache...

Have contacted Kilovault and received a reply that is basically what they have printed in their brochure. Limit  the voltage to 14.1 v. Since then I have raised the VBat set point to 14.2 volts....

Hello Trond, Can you post your settings from the REC ABMS? How big is your battery bank? Maybe I have some suggestions if you give more information. For example it could be that your ba...

Not Neil, but will give some ideas... CAN has three different wiring \'topologies\' that Wakespeed commonly supports: RJ45 (With a variety of different pin-outs) DeviceNet (aka:  NMEA-20...

I have seen this before while working with BMS manufactures in proofing reliable Alternator based charging systems; the \'Twitchiness\' I call it seems not much of an issue with pure electronic cha...

Appreciate the feedback; at issue I think is the wide use of N2K and how it works on a wide range is displays.  Because some PGNs are reused for a lot of different sources (Battery, Alt, etc), we h...

We do have some hidden hardware feature to exploit in future firmware leases; a prime focus for 2021 has been expanding the know well supported battery systems, and focus on features to assist inst...

Trond, This makes sense, when you are dealing with large charge parameters the PID can get a little twitchy.  It sounds like you may need to increase your Proportional and reduce your Integral a...

When running CAN bus regulated charging the A-BMS starts to reduce the max-discharge allowed in the system when the first cell reaches \"Balance voltage Start\". When running solar this runs smooth...

This looks like it was a while ago. @neilfluester Can you post a diagram of your setup?

There are different ways to program the WS500. I would advise the \"Universal configuration Utility\" You can download it from the Wakespeed website including the manual. In short: Unzip th...

You made a good point Edward but the challenges are many on this one.  For background, we developed this app to support Wakespeed as they worked on the actual hardware and each product must stand o...

I am the owner of a SW development business that is 100% Macos, Linux, and embedded systems.  Not a single Windows machine here.  For me, the lack of  Macos (or Linux) SW makes the Wakespeed a non-...

Hello Don, from KiloVault manual. Absorb Voltage 14 Volt Absorb End Amps 2 A Absorb Time 2 minutes or less Not clear for me, is what they like, 14.0V only for 2 minutes, or 14.0 till t...

Hello Paul, What you like, a small amount of rotor current continues can be programmed in the regulator. Look for command $SCT    <Tach Min Field>   But be very careful with this settin...

Agree  

If motor is not running or tach is zero, reduce rotor current to 5% or similar. Just enough to sense if motor / tach starts. Removes chance of cooking rotor.

Most battery packs are set to 14.4 and fine up to 14.6 volts, provided they are fairly well balanced.  You are likely better off using your WS500 and increasing the VBAT setpoint vs relying on an i...

Have been monitoring SOC with the Balmar SG 200 and Kilovault bluetooth app. The Kilovault app  reads consistently higher by 7 to 15 % so I have been switching to internal regulation at the alte...

Don, the WS500 is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing, so lets look more closely at your battery pack. The problem seems to be with your SOC reading.  Remember that SOC is just a calcu...

After startup at low engine rpm the system goes to bulk and  charges at 20 to 30 amps. When rpm is raised the amps increase as does the voltage to 14.1 volts. That is the VBat set point in line ...

Thanks, its more like an nice to have feature. Lets say you have an client with an installation not working as intended and he sends you the log file. Than this field current data could be us...

Thanks. I hear what you are saying, but it would be nice to be able to control the charger instance yourself. 49 by default, or 0-4 if i want to.   Its not just the Raymarine MDF b...

\"Is this reserved for future HW versions?\"  Yes.  <smile> We have many deployments with two large frame alternators (ala, 24v / 280A large frame Leece Neville alts) and no issues.  The d...

ARG -- NMEA and details... As you found, the WS500 is able to send \'NMEA2000\' like messages via CAN, and uses 127508 as a way to send out some otherwise unavailable details for the alternator,...

Hello. Sorry for the delay in posting this note:  The 15 second is a min time needed; during startup the WS500 monitors the CAN bus looking for other devices on the same battery; as well as if t...

I know that Wakespeed have plans to add some features over the next year but I am not sure if this is one one them.  I would like to have this value reported back as well.  Maybe Al can help with t...

What HW version is able to read the Field Amps? I have tested with V1.0 and also V2.0 straight from Wakespeed and its not able to measure Field Amps. Is this reserved for future HW versions? ...

Trond, I am going to forward this one to Al at Wakespeed for followup. @al-thomason

The WS500 sends NMEA data for Battery Instance 0, that\'s fine. I already have this data from the Cerbo but ok. Then the Charger instance as 49, and this is the data I find most interesting a...

Nice Jan, You got it working. One comment on your last picture. The cable connected to P looks very thin. I can be wrong, because the picture. With a big alternator as this, depend on the ...

Final solution, with 2 holes drilled to have the rotor field connections available externally. For reference: Left wire rotor field (front brush) = positive field, connected to the blue wir...

Nice work Jan!  Excellent MacGyvering. Thanks for sharing your solution.  This really helps the community. @wakespeed-offshore

Hello Jan, This pictures explains a lot. I have seen many alternators, but not this particular model. I dont know where you connect the black(neagtive) and blue(field) as in picture, OR th...