@Rance Kilbourn (Disclaimer: Al from Wakespeed). OK, we have found something in the WS500-PRO code that looks to be your issue. Or at least, could well be… It is r...
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WS500 Pro unable to connect to ABMSposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
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WS500 Pro unable to connect to ABMSposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Disclaimer: Al from Wakespeed. Sorry to hear you are having issues, let me look into this some. Should of course be transparent, as the source code is common. But let me set up ...
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WS500-REC_ABMS-Cerbo Feature in - force floatposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
@sturla Hello. Thanks for the reply, makes sense -- holding the SOC when desired. The next release of WS500 firmware (2.5.2.) is in fianl QA and we can not make any changes, but wil...
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WS500-REC_ABMS-Cerbo Feature in - force floatposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Hello, sorry for the delay. What is happening here is as the WS500 is running in Slave Mode it it following the directions of the REC BMS. As such, there is no 'Float' to force to ... ...
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Low Temperature Charging Prevented (Wakespeed 500+Cerbo+REC Q)posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
@Nathaniel CPF vs CPB, lol .. no worries! Yes, when the WS500 is in 'Slave' mode, all the CPx values are ignored, except those of CPB. You can set the CPB values to ...
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Low Temperature Charging Prevented (Wakespeed 500+Cerbo+REC Q)posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Disclaimer -- Al from Wakespeed. What fun! OK, to step back a bit: When it comes to temperature of the battery there are perhaps two details to keep in mind:1) Battery Temp may be...
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Spiking/Pulsing Chargingposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Hello. <Disclaimer: Al with Wakespeed> In 2.5.0 we indeed 'tightened things up' in support of some higher power 48v systems, but seems might have gotten things a little too tigh...
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WS500 giving Error #43posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
@Trond <DISCLAIMER: Al of Wakespeed> Hello. As Ben pointed out, FLT 43 is indicating the WS500 has not sensed voltage on the solid RED wire, the one with the 15A fuse in i...
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Basic WS500 Setup Questionposted in Software Configuration Tool
<DISCLAIMER: Al of Wakespeed> Alan, You can use the DIPs to set basic configs for the WS500 -- works fine, but a bit rough granularity around the battery, and also no ability to adjus...
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WS500 Not Keeping Battery Topped Offposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
@Brent (Disclaimer: Al of Wakespeed). As suggested by Michael, it sounds like the float voltage needs to be adjusted. But am a bit more concerned by: "I have ...
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WS 500 + Dedicated Shunt + Cerbo + REC-Q = 2x DC Power Reportedposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
Hello. (Disclamer: Al of Wakespeed). I am not an expert here, but I think you might (guessing here) be seeing some odd things on the main Cerbo screen, as from waht I understand the Ce...
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WS-REC-Cerbo slave issues?posted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
Quote from Jonny Sollid on March 2, 2023, 11:31 am I have an installation with WS, REC bms and Cerbo that works quite well. But there are two challenges I cannot solve. When WS is in slave mode (R...
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How does the WS500 work on a dual alternator setup?posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Quote from Sailor1313 on February 15, 2023, 10:28 am I have also been in contract with DragonFly about getting the 12v WakeSpeed work on the 12v alternator and have been very upset with their resp...
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WS500 firmware update problems with STM driversposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Wonderful, glad to hear. That is how it is intended to work. Nice and Simple. -al-
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WS500 firmware update problems with STM driversposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Hello all, Yes, some teething issues! Perhaps to be expected, and including the refreshed Wakespeed.com website this past week. As to Firmware and Drivers, I might suggest downloading the Wa...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
Trond Arvid, That is such great news to hear -- we can do only so much \'in the lab\' even with live test benches, to hear your comment from actual field install is really nice. Thank you (I am...
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WS500 switches to float earlyposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Gregory, Hello. I have reached out to support to have then follow up to your question. Please be looking for that and sorry for the delay. (In short, all the phases are documented in the WS50...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
All, Wakespeed WS500 ver 2.5.0 was released Monday -- but it might take a bit to get posted to the website. For all\'s convenience, I have attached the .dfu file and the companion con...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
Wakespeed firmware 2.5.0 is being released this week; and has some improvements - but there still might be work needed on the REC side for its requests, as well as refinements how the REC BMS is co...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
We are indeed looking at current stability, esp with CAN based instrumentation and BMS \'moving targets\' in a rather quick fashion (Blue line in your graph). Most BMS\'s assume quick responding M...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
REC has informed us a new REC BMS Firmware will be sent to us this next week for testing. We (Wakespeed) will be looking at this behavior as well as other noted issues around REC. The...
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How does the WS500 work on a dual alternator setup?posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Eric, For your install I would refer you to the Victron Lynx website - it has a few very extensive examples of how to install the Lynx BMS with dual alternators and the WS500. In or...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
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...
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Victron VE.CAN and CANbus to WS500posted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
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...
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Regarding CAN bus regulated charging.posted in REC Active BMS
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...
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Charger instance NMEA2000posted in Software Configuration Tool
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...
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WS 500 Field Amp reading.posted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
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...
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WS 500 Field Amp reading.posted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
\"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...
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Charger instance NMEA2000posted in Software Configuration Tool
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,...
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reducing startup delay ,15sposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
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...
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4S REC BMS questionposted in REC Active BMS
Hello, I do not believe the scale dynamically adjusts - and is fixed for both 12v and 24v deployment. The Color bands seem to be the same situation.
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W500 integration with Victron CCGX via CANposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
Blaine, Hello. Rick asked me to chime in: You are correct. What happens is the REC BMS will send charge needs and directions out via CAN which both the WS500 and Victron\'s CCGX receive. Th...
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REC ABMS integrationposted in Software Configuration Tool
As Rick said, there are indeed two DB-9 connectors on the REC ABMS: one for Serial access via RS485 for configuration and such, the other for CAN. To connect the WS500 just connect up the CAN-H a...
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Limit Float Ampsposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
We are targeting v2.2.0 firmware to be released some time in Feb, likely mid Feb. Am in the final phases of testing now. It will have the changes talked about above: -- Min/Max bat temp limits...
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Lost profileposted in Software Configuration Tool
Andy, Hello. Sorry you are having issues. Reading your description, it sounds like one of the regulators is loosing its configuration - restoring to the factory default state? Is t...
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Last errorposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Hello, Fault states are not retained by power cycling, and in fact power cycling is the only way to clear a number of hard faults. Of course, once power cycled if the condition still existing ...
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Alternator Selectionposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
I would say for your application, either an overdrive 12v alternator (with care about the diodes) or a standard 24v alternator would work. Much depends on how you are driving it, and the expectati...
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Alternator Selectionposted in WS500 Tips, Tricks and support
Not sure about the other way, never seen a need where someone did that. On reliability, perhaps overthinking a bit. As long as one does not overheat an alternator, the likely failures are then ...
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Limit Float Ampsposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
Glad could help. And yes, the Ws500 does have a lot of capability - most of the time we have an answer for problems folks are having. And on the rare occasions when we don\'t, we can look to incl...
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Limit Float Ampsposted in WS500 User Installation and Programming Questions
Cold hard stop: Ya, plus there are some batteries with heaters in them that we support, allows very cold operations! Plus, batteries getting too cold are not commonly a result of the alternator ...
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