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Discharge Low Power setting

Open campbellcopeland opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Recently moved to Flux and have a 3 hour evening discharge window which is combined (via combine discharge switch) but only discharges during 2nd half of period at full rate. Can this discharge at a lower rate? Feeling this may be better for long term battery health/calibration?

Describe the solution you'd like When there is a three hour Flux window, the discharge rate would decrease from AIO 6kW to a rate that allowed consistent rate across all three hours to achieve target SOC

Describe alternatives you've considered There was an automation listed on Facebook group from Willy Reckitt called “Adjustable Force Export Single” but looking for a PredBat solution

Additional context Feels like a discharge version of “predbat_set_charge_low_power”. Suspect it will help battery calibration to discharge at 3.6kW for 3 hours rather than 6kW for 1.5 hours.

campbellcopeland avatar Apr 26 '24 20:04 campbellcopeland

I use the Charge Low Power setting already - it’s an equivalent for discharge that I’m interested in.

campbellcopeland avatar Apr 27 '24 06:04 campbellcopeland

I use the Charge Low Power setting already - it’s an equivalent for discharge that I’m interested in.

Apologies, I'll grab another coffee 🙂. Sounds like a good proposal

mpartington avatar Apr 27 '24 06:04 mpartington

To be fair, I’m not sure if there are advantages to a reduced rate of discharge or not. Unsure if this is beneficial for the BMS to calibrate SOC compared to maximum rate discharge and then just covering house load.

campbellcopeland avatar Apr 27 '24 06:04 campbellcopeland

Our batteries benefit from some time at 100% to rebalance. So if this was implemented maybe it still needs to sit at 100% for a specific time period?

bensebborn avatar Apr 27 '24 07:04 bensebborn

I've been reluctant to change the discharge power is it would prevent the battery from serving the home should you turn something power hungry on during that time period.

springfall2008 avatar May 06 '24 09:05 springfall2008