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Pylontech US3000 after 6yrs 🤪

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Hi guys,

I've realized that my first Pylontech battery will be 6 years old this March, so I've pulled some stats on the SOH and Cycles to share together with my thoughts.

CC = 52.5V
CV = 52.5V

8x US3000

System SOH               : 96       %
Power Volt   Curr   Tempr  Tlow   Thigh  Vlow   Vhigh  Base.St  Volt.St  Curr.St  Temp.St  Coulomb  Time                 B.V.St   B.T.St  
1     50955  -260   23000  20000  21000  3390   3399   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:53  Normal   Normal  
2     50965  -256   23000  20000  21000  3390   3400   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
3     50970  -260   23000  20000  20000  3392   3402   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
4     50948  -252   23000  20000  20000  3387   3399   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
5     50969  -256   23000  20000  20000  3389   3399   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
6     50975  -262   22000  20000  20000  3392   3400   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
7     50959  -268   22000  19000  19000  3391   3399   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal  
8     50945  -260   21000  18000  18000  3388   3398   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 22:16:52  Normal   Normal
CYCLE Times     :      267
CYCLE Times     :      518
CYCLE Times     :      521
CYCLE Times     :      523
CYCLE Times     :      529
CYCLE Times     :      520
CYCLE Times     :      511
CYCLE Times     :      501

 

8x US3000C

System SOH               : 98       %
Power Volt   Curr   Tempr  Tlow   Thigh  Vlow   Vhigh  Base.St  Volt.St  Curr.St  Temp.St  Coulomb  Time                 B.V.St   B.T.St   MosTempr M.T.St  
1     50890  0      22100  19900  19900  3387   3396   Idle     Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:12  Normal   Normal  20600    Normal  
2     50903  -203   22300  19900  20200  3378   3397   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:10  Normal   Normal  21000    Normal  
3     50897  -256   23300  19700  20100  3386   3396   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  21300    Normal  
4     50906  -256   22300  18900  19300  3386   3396   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  20600    Normal  
5     50895  -258   22000  19000  19400  3385   3395   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  20200    Normal  
6     50896  -266   21900  18300  18600  3385   3397   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  19900    Normal  
7     50896  -260   20900  17900  18200  3386   3395   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  19200    Normal  
8     50901  -264   20600  17100  17500  3387   3397   Dischg   Normal   Normal   Normal   100%     2025-01-30 23:52:08  Normal   Normal  18900    Normal  
9     -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
10    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
11    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
12    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
13    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
14    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
15    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -       
16    -      -      -      -      -      -      -      Absent   -        -        -        -        -                    -        -
CYCLE Times     :      140
CYCLE Times     :      141
CYCLE Times     :      246
CYCLE Times     :      233
CYCLE Times     :      240
CYCLE Times     :      249
CYCLE Times     :      249
CYCLE Times     :      247

 

  • At a first look, it's not that bad with 96% SOH on a 6yrs old battery.
  • But on the other hand, it's been 4% down for just roughly 500 cycles it made in that time. If linear, then after around 2500 cycles made in total, it will be at 80% SOH.
  • If 500 cycles took me 6yrs then after 2500 cycles done in total the battery will be 30 years old. No way the battery will last for that long.

Based on this, I would say that the battery will die of age well before it dies on cycles.
What do you think?

Youda

Edited by Youda
wording

11 hours ago, Youda said:

Based on this, I would say that the battery will die of age well before it dies on cycles.
What do you think?

100% agreed , that's why i cycle my batteries down to 5% every day :D  This is something Will prowse was preaching since way back , he cycles from 0-100% for that reason. The fastest way for the batteries to pay for themselves is to use all your capacity every day (leaving a small buffer at the end if needed for loadshedding/grid failure depending on you usage)

I have 4x US2000 Plus (700 cycles) and 4x US3000C (around 400 cycles).

Total SOH = 95% , on ICM I cannot see SOH per battery.

Your figures look better, but I also cycle them more at least 0.6 cycles per day. Always running from DC.

 

 

  • Author
34 minutes ago, Marius2001 said:

Total SOH = 95% , on ICM I cannot see SOH per battery.

To be honest, it's not ICM's fault. AFAIK, for Pylontech only the master battery tracks SOH and it's System SOH. (CLI command "pwrsys")

Newer models, for example US3000C, have a SOH Counter for every battery, but it's empty. (CLI command "stats" followed by a number of battery you want to query)

Luckily, at least the Cycle Count is tracked per battery :)

  • 1 month later...

I have some US2000, US2000C and US3000B. For all those, the SOH and cycle count are calculated with a simple formula (by the BMS)

  • Cycle count goes up by 1 for every 50Ah discharged on US2000 (74Ah for US3000)

  • SOH goes down by 1% for each 100 completed cycles.

For a stack of Pylons the same logic applies - simply use total capacity and discharge.

So, @Youda , your 8 x US3000B had a total of 3890 cycles on 30 Jan. Expect the SOH to drop to 95 any day now when the stack total gets to 4000 cycles.

A note of caution: this is based on observations on my batteries, all of which have been treated very gently. They are all at about 700 cycles.

I have one data point from an older US2000 that leads me to believe that the formula changes at 1000 cycles/90% SOH. The slope thereafter seems to be 0.6% SOH per 100 cycles (or 1% for each 166.7 cycles)- that will nicely get it to 60% at 6000 cycles that Pylon claims.

The bad news from all of this: the Pylon's SOH is not an indication of how well the battery has been treated. It is simply an estimate of remaining capacity based purely on total cycles. This is very disappointing given that they have a very sophisticated chip (TI BQ34z100) in the BMS whose sole purpose is to accurately estimate SOH and SOC based on real measurements.

Edited by Calvin

  • 8 months later...
On 2025/03/06 at 7:51 PM, Calvin said:

The bad news from all of this: the Pylon's SOH is not an indication of how well the battery has been treated. It is simply an estimate of remaining capacity based purely on total cycles. This is very disappointing given that they have a very sophisticated chip (TI BQ34z100) in the BMS whose sole purpose is to accurately estimate SOH and SOC based on real measurements.

Hi @Calvin you can see how well the battery has been treated based on the HV (High Voltage) and OV (Over Voltage) times in the "stat" command from the command line. The lower theses values are, the greater the state of the battery is.

Cheers

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