I am not an electrical engineer and stand to be corrected:
Commercial inverters for a LiFePO4, gel and lead acid batteries types usually include a micro-controller to monitor and manage the battery's state of charge. These micro-controllers usually employ a multi-stage charging algorithm to derate and prevent the battery from overcharging (which may lead to its eventual destruction).
I recently installed a cheap Chinese MUST 1000V hybrid sine-wave inverter with a relatively expensive LiFePO4 battery. Has anyone had success communicating with the RS-232 serial port to monitor this brand of inverter?
I am terribly worried that there is a bug in the implementation of the charging algorithm; the officially supported desktop monitoring app is only supported on Windows...
Commercial inverters for a LiFePO4, gel and lead acid batteries types usually include a micro-controller to monitor and manage the battery's state of charge. These micro-controllers usually employ a multi-stage charging algorithm to derate and prevent the battery from overcharging (which may lead to its eventual destruction).
I recently installed a cheap Chinese MUST 1000V hybrid sine-wave inverter with a relatively expensive LiFePO4 battery. Has anyone had success communicating with the RS-232 serial port to monitor this brand of inverter?
I am terribly worried that there is a bug in the implementation of the charging algorithm; the officially supported desktop monitoring app is only supported on Windows...