I am trying to run a MPP-1210 out of the box …
I plugged a 12V Lead-acid battery and a solar Panel simulator (38-Cell, about 24.7Voc)
to the Srew-terminals. No response.
One Led is lit, but don’t know what that means, the hw-doc does not explain that.
The device is operating, because i can see a short Led-Test on power-on-reset
and message on LS-one serial port, which sends:
- Libre Solar Charge Controller: mppt_1210_hus*
- EEPROM: Empty or data layout version changed*
- Detected single battery (14.40 V max)*
Is there a way to start this device charging, switch the Load Output and get some SOC?
What serial commands are required?
Is there a python script to run it interactively?
Thank you in advance?
Bodo
Hi Bodo,
the serial interface uses the ThingSet protocol as described here: libre.solar/thingset/.
To request measurements you can e.g. send ?output (+ newline) to the charge controller. The output includes the SOC estimation aswell.
Switching the load off works like this: =input {"LoadEn":false}. It should be on by default, unless the battery is at low state of charge.
It should also start charging automatically and the top-most LED of the three LEDs should start blinking. If you see only a single LED, this means that your battery voltage must be very low and the load is switched off.
In general I recommend to flash the most recent firmware from main branch. Looking at your output it seems to be an old version.
Martin
