There are three ways to check the information about the battery pack of the robot and energy production:
- On the HMI on the robot, looking at page "Energy" 2.1.2
- On your smartphone:
- via the FarmDroid App, in the main page and in the Power View page
- via the VictronConnect App (related article)
ENERGY STATUS ON THE ROBOT'S SCREEN
To check the status of the batteries navigate to page "ENERGY" 2.1.2.
In this page you can see the current level of charge, as well as the "actions" that the robot will take, based on the voltage of the battery pack.
For example, looking at the image below we can see that:
- Batteries are fully loaded (27.21V)
- The robot will stop the operations when it reaches 24V and shut-down at 23V
- Current energy production is 0 kW (since the batteries are full, so cannot take any more energy)
- The energy consumption is 0.08 kW (due to system being powered ON, but currently not performing any operation)
- The power bank is providing 0.04 kW of energy
ENERGY STATUS IN THE FARMDROID APP
You can find a first overview of the battery pack status in the main page by scrolling down until you see "Battery voltage".
Alternatively, if you want a higher degree of details of the information, you can select the sub-menu "Power" to read the current:
- Robot consumption
- Solar production
- Battery balance (charging or discharging)
- Power bank balance (charging or discharging)
TIPS AND TRICKS 😁👇
If on a sunny day your solar production is low and the batteries are discharging a little bit (60-80W), the reason might be that the batteries are fully charged (27V) and cannot take any more energy from the solar panels at the moment 😀
So, make sure to check the voltage of the batteries as well!