Hi, 

I have a Volta Stage 1 battery. Looking for the BMS Software, anyone know where you can get the software. 

7 hours ago, Colin B said:

Hi, 

I have a Volta Stage 1 battery. Looking for the BMS Software, anyone know where you can get the software. 

The image or the actual code?

I believe he is talking about the BMS software mentioned in the manual which allows you to change protocol so that you can use other brands of inverters.

 

Correct, Yes

BMS Monitoring Software for PC. 

Edited July 13, 20232 yr by Colin B
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I'm also looking for it. On the screenshot you can see Genix Green. I checked there as well. 

Also still trying to figure out the pinout for RS232 port.

Hi All
I am also looking for this software.  Any hints would be useful.

Thanks in advance

I'm also looking for this.

Heya

I was recently in the same predicament

For reading the CAN Bus, this adapter is fantastic: https://www.robotics.org.za/MKS-CAN-V2-STD

Then use https://github.com/tixiv/CAN-Monitor-qt exec in the releases segment

Open CAN Monitor 3000, select SL-Can / Lawicel and open the COM port for the device at 500kBit/s 

If the wiring is correct the device LEDs should start flickering and the serial frames will get dumped in application

batteries in arrays(2+) have ID's offset by one normally.

the for the format string just try s16,s16,s16,s16 that should decode standard CAN Frames

Then you can at least see the raw data.

Then organize and label the info like this

Hope this helps

EDIT : I should add you can do this whilst it is talking to your inverter, effectively listening.

Regards
Ps. anyone try the pylontech software for these batteries or even PBMS Tools?

Edited July 31, 20232 yr by ZS1SCI

TOPBMS 6.1 on the www.cleverbms.com RS232
 

 

TOPBMS 6.1 on the www.cleverbms.com RS232
 

Could you post a link to this 6.1 version? I cant seem to find it there.

Thanks.

 

Could you post a link to this 6.1 version? I cant seem to find it there.

Thanks.

https://www.cleverbms.com/news/76.html

 

https://www.cleverbms.com/news/76.html

Thanks very much. I was looking in the download section. 😉

Edited September 26, 20232 yr by Clive

Any luck getting Comms to work with the Volta Stage 1?

Edited November 1, 20232 yr by TenMilSocket

2 hours ago, TenMilSocket said:

Any luck getting Comms to work with the Volta Stage 1?

All right, it is late and as usual I poked the bear until it woke up....

Here are my steps: 

1. Rig up a USB to RS232 adaptor to connect to the RJ12 port as per the connection information below:

Battery RS232 Port

My USB to RS232 Adaptor pinout

In my case the I had a USB to RS232 adaptor with a D-SUB9 connector as seen above.

The connections I made were as follow:

Please don't just look at pin numbers as the function is more important than the pin number ie. RX, TX and GND. So if your RS232 Adaptor is different to mine rather use the functions to guide your connections.

2. Make sure the driver is installed for your USB to RS232 Adaptor on the PC you plan to use. Check Device Manager to determine if it is installed and also look at which COM Port number is assigned to the USB to RS232 adaptor (see example circled in green -mine is COM4).

3. Download the TOPBMS 6.1 software from the link mentioned in the thread above. https://www.cleverbms.com/news/76.html  Extract the files from the folder downloaded by the TOPBMS 6.1 Link. (Folder name is just a bunch of numbers for me (1688880348148907)... weird.

4. Plug in the USB to the computer and the RJ12 connector to the battery RS232 Port.

5. Open TOPBMS.exe located in the extracted folder.(it takes a moment sometimes to open)

If it is your first time opening it, it will most likely look like this with ????????????????? everywhere. Just select English at the bottom of the screen (circled in Green)

 

It now should look like this:

6. Click on the "Close" button located next to the Serial COM window in the top right. Wait for the button to say "Open". now select your COM port Number in the drop down box to the left of the "Open" button (it is the one from Step 2 above - yours will be different). Once selected, click "Open". You will most likely see a message appear at the bottom below the "English" language selection that says "--6 Invalid Data". 

7. Input the password in the password box on the bottom right. DON'T press change. Simply hit the ENTER key on your keyboard. The Password as per the VOLTA Manual is "green1234".

8.If all went according to plan, the screen should show the battery information circled in green below. The COM light (Blue circle) should also flash GREEN/YELLOW indicating that the communication with the BMS is active.

 

Lastly for those interested the RS232 Baud Rate is 9600bps by default.

Hope this helps

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS JUST A GUIDE ON HOW TO CONNECT! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CHANGES MADE TO THE BMS SETTINGS AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEY BEAR! PLEASE DO NOT PLAY WITH THE "LITHIUM OVERLORDS" AND SUFFER THEIR "WRATH OF FIRE!" Also your warranty might be void (don't quote me on that).

 

 

Edited November 1, 20232 yr by TenMilSocket
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Does anyone have the v15.52 firmware bin file for the Volta batteries?

On 2023/11/10 at 6:55 PM, Skillet said:

Does anyone have the v15.52 firmware bin file for the Volta batteries?

The attached file was sent to me by the technical manager of africogroup.com - I have not tried it yet but it seems to be the same as the one shared on the Lux Power Facebook group. Hope it helps.

 

BMS48100_ZWN_V1552_16S100A_.bin

Edited November 24, 20232 yr by Rouxenator

Today I made the RJ12 to DB9 cable and it seems to work - however TopBMS gives me an error 174 - The frame length is not long enough

I still have the battery connected to the inverter via CAN. Should I switch it all off, then connect only the RS-232 and try again or is the battery supposed to be able to talk both CAN and RS-232 at the same time?

OK, seems like I got the error above because I was connecting to a Stage 4 battery. Does anyone know what software to use with the Volta Stage 4?

Successfully updates my Stage 1 to V15.52 today using a cable made with the instructions posted here 👍

Great to hear. I haven't been able to pay attention to the forum in a while. Did you manged to get the Stage 4 working as well? Suspecting the bigger BMS's to use another software...

I do not have the Stage4 firmware, but will see if I can at least communicate with the BMS using the BMS software that work on the others and report back here.

Have you had any reports of the Stage4 having the SOC drift issue as well? 

On 2023/11/24 at 9:41 PM, Rouxenator said:

Successfully updates my Stage 1 to V15.52 today using a cable made with the instructions posted here 👍

I have tried updating a Stage 1 today but although I could connect to the BMS using the BMS tools beforehand, the Update tool did not want to connect.

I have tried connecting using the BMS Tools again after trying but was not able to connect since. I then noticed that the battery is displaying LED1 (Red) and LED2, 3 and 4 running green. Now not able to switch off the BMS at all as the battery power switch has no effect.

Now what!!? 

On 2023/11/25 at 11:31 AM, TenMilSocket said:

Great to hear. I haven't been able to pay attention to the forum in a while. Did you manged to get the Stage 4 working as well? Suspecting the bigger BMS's to use another software...

No luck on the Stage 4 software yet - I would appreciate any help. I did a complete siterip of cleverbms.com yet could not find a package there that will talk to the Stage 4. 

On 2023/11/28 at 10:52 AM, Skillet said:

I have tried updating a Stage 1 today but although I could connect to the BMS using the BMS tools beforehand, the Update tool did not want to connect.

I have tried connecting using the BMS Tools again after trying but was not able to connect since. I then noticed that the battery is displaying LED1 (Red) and LED2, 3 and 4 running green. Now not able to switch off the BMS at all as the battery power switch has no effect.

Now what!!? 

I updated yet another Volta Stage 1 today - it did not want to do the update the first 2 times I clicked Download but on the 3rd one it did! Success again 😉

The previous update I did it stalled at 76% so I just had to restart it - something I was taught to never ever do with updates - but it too worked in the end. Attached is the tool you will need to do the update.

Please use the BMS Tool beforehand to read the values on the Parameter tab - specifically the RS485 and CAN protocols. Mine stayed the same with the update to 15.52 but it is always a good idea to check. 

IAP_Demo.zip