Bit of an odd one this — hoping someone with three-phase Multiplus-II experience can chip in.
Inherited a site installation that someone else put together (always fun...). It's a three-phase setup with a pair of Multiplus-II 48/5000s, Victron MPPT controllers, and a 48V battery bank — Pylontech stack if I remember right from the docs left behind.
The issue is that the phases aren't behaving consistently under load. One leg is clearly doing more heavy lifting than the other two, and I'm seeing the VE.Bus system throw occasional warnings that don't seem to correlate with anything obvious — no massive load spikes, nothing tripped, just... grumpy.
A few questions for anyone who's dealt with similar:
- Was the three-phase configuration actually set up properly in VEConfigure? I've been through it and the master/slave assignments look correct, but I'm not 100% confident the previous installer knew what they were doing.
- Has anyone seen load imbalance cause knock-on issues with the MPPT prioritisation between phases?
- Worth upgrading to the latest firmware across the board first before digging deeper?
I'm used to single-phase off-grid setups for EV charging applications so three-phase is slightly new territory for me in terms of fault-finding. The Victron community forums have some useful threads but a lot of them are written assuming grid-tie commercial installs rather than the hybrid off-grid stuff we tend to do here.
Anyone with hands-on experience with this sort of three-phase hybrid headache — would genuinely appreciate the input before I start pulling things apart unnecessarily.