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wildmountainfarms / solarthing

Monitors an Outback MATE, Renogy Rover - MPPT Charge Controller and EPEver Tracer. Integrates with Grafana, PVOutput and more!
https://solarthing.readthedocs.io
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wiring with max485 #20

Closed riker65 closed 3 years ago

riker65 commented 3 years ago

Hi, wondering if this is working with the max485 adapter.

Do you have a decripton of the wiring you are using in general?

Did not find it .

Thanks for guiding.

BR T

retrodaredevil commented 3 years ago

For Rovers that use the RS232 port (not RS485), I have this (which I think is slightly incorrect, you need to hook TX to RX and RX to TX.

For Rovers using the RS485 communication, you can look at this. I might put that in the solarthing repository soon. I found it here.

It looks like the pinout for models with RS485 communication is +5V, A, B, GND, NC, CAN_H, NC, CAN_L. You can ignore the CAN and NC.

riker65 commented 3 years ago

Hi thanks a lot. also found the renogy forum and answered as well there.

will check and dig into it.

Do you have any experience with MAX485 https://arduinoinfo.mywikis.net/wiki/RS485-Modules

retrodaredevil commented 3 years ago

Personally I don't have any experience with MAX485. The best I have is the documentation for the pinout above.