Load sharing for Victron EVCS
The Victron EV Charging station has limited functionality to share a load within your home. If your setup allows, it will provide basic overload protection but in some setups this functionality may not suffice.
This flow is designed for load sharing between a Victron EV Charging Station and your home.
Grid metering: The flow takes a reading from your grid meter and calculates which phase has the heaviest load.
Grid lost and Multi overload alarms: The flow takes grid lost and overload alarms into account by setting the minimum charge current. It does not specifically read if the charger is connected to AC-OUT but simply assumes it will fail otherwise.
Basic load sharing within the house: The flow controls the EV charge current by taking a maximum of 20A grid load. This number was chosen to prevent the new ESS import current limiting feature from kicking in which will simply start inverting the lack of power. If the remaining charge current is less than 6A it will stop the charging process and try to restart it after 5mins.
For now, this is very very much a beta so please use carefully. Any comments or help to improve is much appreciated!
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