Anker Solix Home Backup Battery System

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Tips and Tricks¶

The Anker Home Backup Battery System automatically decides when to charge based the time-of-use schedule.
A F3800 plus battery has to be disconnected from the Anker Home Power Panel before doing firmware update.
Use only one F3800 plus battery for system self-test. Once the system self-test is done, just connect the other F3800 plus battery (if you have 2 F3800 batteries).
Switch off breakers on the Anker Home Panel before plugging/unplugging batteris.
F3800 plus batteries can be added as devices in the Anker app but BP3800 extension batteries cannot be directly added as devices. A BP3800 extension battery shows up under the F3800 battery that it connects to in the app.
If battery capacity is an issue, you can
- Add BP3800 expansion batteries.
- Leverage manual override to charge batteries. Notice that manual override is one-time only.
- Configure 10am - 5pm (off peak) as super off-peak in the app to fool the system to charge between the 2 peak periods.
- Use an EV to charge batteries if necessary during a power outage. Notice that the batteries cannot supply power to the house while they are being charged.
The Anker app supports at most 6 time frames for time-of-use. If you this becomes a limit to you, you can remove the last super off-peak time frame (11pm - 12pm). This gives you the flexibility to hack other time frames. For example, you can split an off-peak time frame into an off-peak time frame and a super off-peak time frame to fool the sytem to do more charging. Even if you do need such a hacking, this can still provides a couple of benefits.
- Easier to set up time-of-use in the app.
- Cleaner as there’s one fewer time frame in the app.