Good news! This may help to explain why the BMS was not pulling back the charger output on your Victron and keeping it from tripping. Thanks for the update
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Q series BMS Error 15posted in REC Q Series BMS
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Q series BMS Error 15posted in REC Q Series BMS
Thats likely your issue. The BMS can bring a slightly imbalanced pack back into balance but for a badly out balance system the best solution is a good static balance but if that is impractica...
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Q series BMS Error 15posted in REC Q Series BMS
Your battery parameters all look good. It sounds like it may be a cell imbalance issue. Did you static balance your pack before you built your pack? Do you have a "Smart" chargi...
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ABMS/2Q firmware with additional CAN messagesposted in REC Active BMS
Guys, I have finally found some time to create a REC Tech tool and and am roughing in an Android/Mac/Windows/Web app I hope to release later this year. Still Lots of work to do but here are ...
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ABMS/2Q firmware with additional CAN messagesposted in REC Active BMS
Thanks for sharing your work. This looks awesome and will be helpful to others looking to do something similar. Signal K and Node Red are great tools for super users! It's posts like t...
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New REC BMS and Victron Cerbo DVCC integration Guideposted in REC BMS Tips and Tricks
This will work with the Active BMS current release as well. Victron and REC are both continuing to enhance CAN functionality and there will be more updates over the next couple of years as th...
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Bricked ABMS?posted in REC Active BMS
We bumped up your shipping to 2 day UPS on the backup air and it went out today :)
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Bricked ABMS?posted in REC Active BMS
Not handy, but Amazon should be able to get him one quickly. From what I recall it will look something like this. I think this customer is pretty technical too and should be able to re-...
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Bricked ABMS?posted in REC Active BMS
Let's wait to hear back from Tine at REC to see if can help before we do a warranty claim. If not, we will get you sorted next week.
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Bricked ABMS?posted in REC Active BMS
I have only seen this a couple of times and it was because the wifi module is connected to the load side of contactor instead of the battery side and the power is disconnected from the module when ...
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Q series BMS Error 15posted in REC Q Series BMS
Hey Tony, the big change is that the 2Q uses better connectors, has more memory, a real-time clock and has a built in precharge circuit. It also requires the Wi-fi as the standard interface ...
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Q series BMS Error 15posted in REC Q Series BMS
An error 15 is caused when 1) a cell tap wire is disconnected while still connected to the BMS and it created a voltage imbalance, burning out the highly sensitive ADC circuitry. 2) Y...
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New REC BMS and Victron Cerbo DVCC integration Guideposted in REC BMS Tips and Tricks
UPDATE January 2025 With recent updates to both the Cerbo and new REC 2Q and Active series BMS's these systems now work better than ever together. VE.CAN support DVCC control to ...
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WS500 and Cerbo BMS-CAN vs VE-CAN when using a non-Victron BMSposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
UPDATE January 2025 With recent updates to both the Cerbo and new REC 2Q series we can now confirm that both the WS500 and the REC BMS can now reside on the VE.CAN bus of the Cerbo. ...
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Number of inverter/charger devices, will 1 still allow the cerbo to control multiples?posted in REC Active BMS
This parameter is used only for maximum system load current from Inverters and Inverter/chargers, so you would enter "1" here. It will regulate all chargers using DVCC
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WS500 Pro unable to connect to ABMSposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
@Al Thomason Thanks for the quick response Al. If you email it to me at support@ogm-energy.com I will see that Rance gets it. Best of the season! Rick
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WS500 Pro unable to connect to ABMSposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
We havent done any testing with the Pro yet so I am going to include Al from Wakespeed in this thread and hopefully he will have some insight. @Al Thomason
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Abms green flashing and dissappearedposted in REC Active BMS
ok, good. For the CAN network, its likely a baudrate setup issue. I am going to send you a link to our new REC-Active Quick Start manual via email that steps you through it.
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Lithium Changeover With Arco Zeus.posted in Installation and Configuration
That may not be bad advice. The Zeus was designed to support a dual alternator setup and as long as you have matching alternators, you should be able to get some good output from this configu...
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Abms green flashing and dissappearedposted in REC Active BMS
When you Factory reset the wifi module you lost the comms settings. The Active BMS address is 2. Here is a link to some tutorials that should help. It gets set on the "Firmware" p...
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Rec data to home assistantposted in REC Active BMS
Hey Lure, if you could share a bit of your code or a github link to help others get started, that would be awesome!!
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Looking for feedback on my QBMS configuration and settings.posted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
@Bill I am hoping it will be first quarter 2025.
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REC BMS for 24-series LTO cells for Sunny Islandposted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
Peter, I will answer your tech questions here 1) WiFi values can be read using HTTP get calls. There is another thread on this forum with info and others who are doing it. You wi...
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Updated configuration tool?? v1.2.2posted in Software Configuration Tool
With all of the recent changes to the WS500 firmware we have decided to sunset this product development. We suggest you use the android tool available from Wakespeed for firmware updates.&nbs...
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Looking for feedback on my QBMS configuration and settings.posted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
This is what we got back, which is encouraging and keep in mind that the Master uses firmware that is keyed to the serial #, and has to be requested from engineering. WCIB does not work on Ma...
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Looking for feedback on my QBMS configuration and settings.posted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
Hey Bill, I am not sure if the Master supports this new function but will check with engineering and report back.
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Looking for feedback on my QBMS configuration and settings.posted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
Bill, I looked over your parameters and in my opinion, they are pushing the limits on both the high and low voltage side. Between 3.5 and 3.7V there is only 1-2% capacity so I would tend to be a bi...
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Where can I buy an RS485 cable?posted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
The cable is custom assembed and comes as part of the REC BMS software kit. You can buy it here. https://ogm-energy.com/products/rec-pc-software
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Upgraded to v1.5 and CAN to Victron is poochedposted in REC 2Q Series BMS
Great, glad you got it working. For reference, if you want to move to the VE.CAN port here is a quick video to help setup the BMS and the Cerbo. https://ogm-energy.com/community/ogm-user-for...
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Dead REC Master - Dead/Burnt components close to Vcc inputposted in REC Master Slave Large Scale Systems
Hey Mike, REC is pretty good about sharing this info so by way of this message I have included Tine in the thread and hopefully he can help you here. @Tine Andrejasic
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How to connect a REC 2Q to your Victron VE.CAN portposted in REC BMS to Victron VE Bus
With recent upgrades of the Venus/Cerbo firmware to 3.3X and REC-BMS 2Q Firmware 1.5 the REC 2Q BMS will now work properly on the Victron VE. CAN port instead of using the BMS.CAN port. This ...
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Upgraded to v1.5 and CAN to Victron is poochedposted in REC 2Q Series BMS
Try resetting the CHRG and CANS parameters. Details are in the new manual on the rec-bms-na.com site
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REC Master BMS/2Q Max System Sizeposted in REC Q Series BMS
Here is some feedback from REC engineering that may address your challenge while giving you a level of system redundancy at the same time. Hope it helps I would go with 2 parallel systems.&n...
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Rec data to home assistantposted in REC Active BMS
Here is something that may help. I havent had a chance to check it out myself yet. ## PLACEHOLDERS Use __BACKTICK__ to use placeholders that are listed below. You can type in a __BACKTICK...
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Rec data to home assistantposted in REC Active BMS
Sure, you can query the Wifi module or use the RS485. The RS485 protocol is covered in the manual. I have a request in to enginerring for a list of http variables available and will post it ...
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ABYC E-13 requirements implementation and integrationposted in REC Active BMS
Check out this one. It may assist with many of your queries. And don't forget, these are all available in editable versions too. https://rec-bms-na.com/system-design-ideas/#48-50-wpfd-marin...
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Master Slave Config PC BMS Control Softwareposted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
for most operations you connect to the Master to retreive all slave parameters, not to the slave. Only things like slave firmware updates . I see that your pack voltage is 104 volts so ...
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Master Slave Config PC BMS Control Softwareposted in REC-BMS Programming and Configuration Questions
are the green LEDs on the slave blinking about once a second? Are you using addresses 16 and 1 to try and connect?
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Power relaysposted in REC Active BMS
Using the Wifi module and in the Tasks section you should be able to configure a different dropout voltage for each. You should have 1 available relay that will drive the Tyco directly and y...
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