Charge rate alteration during scheduled charge slots.

KevinD

More of a F.Y.I. post. I usually have my AIO charge rate set around 4kWh for a couple of reasons. One being that I have read that Givenergy say that is the optimal rate for maintaining SOC accuracy, the second being that in really cold spells it is possible to space the charge slots more evenly throughout the night and keep the system warmer. During the first of my charge slots last night my system was charging at 6kWh. I went into Givenergy cloud and altered the charge rate to about 4kWh ( for some reason the charge rate applied is always greater that the value selected in the portal ).
It was interesting to see the newly selected value change in almost real time as I was tweaking the settings.

pdladds

I have an 8.19KW Givenergy battery which has max discharge and charge rates of 2.6KWh. However, I notice that when the system needs to fully discharge for a firmware upgrade, that it discharges 100% within minutes. Similarly when charging from the grid it can add 6Kw in an hour. Any ideas why or how this happens? Just trying to understand.