How To Wire & Program a Victron SmartShunt for LiFePO4 Batteries 🔋

⚡The Victron SmartShunt is a great way to monitor your battery's performance! It can track things like current, voltage, and temperature, and it will even send you alerts if there is a problem. In this video, we will teach you how to wire and connect a Victron 500A SmartShunt to a LiFePO4 Battery as an example. Before programming your Victron SmartShunt, make sure to check with your battery manufacturer for their recommended settings for programming.

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[darylmichalski]

You went over making-using insulated tools when working on batteries as you should in any high amp circuits, but it looked like you were wearing a metal ring. I made the mistake of wearing a gold wedding band to work. I arced the band between the cable and battery post. Gold if an excellent conductor of electricity and gets real hot, real fast around a tender part of a finger, plus it did major damage to the ring.

[philippschneidenbach]

Perfect, quick tutorial. Great! Those Smart shunts are probably the most important product of every battery bank and work flawlessly. For a victron product, they are relatively cheap aswell. Together with their chargers, which are not cheap but highly configurable you own equipment that is versatile and good for decades. Thx for the video!

[rickw]

Thanks for answering my question in an indirect way. I disconnected my battery from the smart shunt to remove an unused monitor wire. My battery is at 42% SOC and has been since I parked my boat for the Winter. Every time I checked it, it was consistently at 42%. When I reconnected it shows it is 100% SOC. I understand from your video that it will reset after I fully charge it. Thanks for the info!

[davesdiversions]

Another great tutorial. I purchased all the gear for my little set-up (One 206, charger, and Shunt) from you. After watching this video, I hooked everything back up (Battery was disconnected and stored indoors for the winter) and started to match the settings on my phone, then realized you must have already done that for me before mailing the shunt. Thanks

[campnut]

Just put one of these on my 5th wheel a week ago. Great tool to let you know what's happening with the battery. My only complaint thus far is I can't get more than 10 feet from the front storage and the app loses its connection with the shunt. The only place inside I can connect is in the front bedroom, as soon as I walk down the steps to the kitchen, the app loses its connection with the shunt.

[TerryCooper]

Great video however, as a professional pipe fitter, I have very limited knowledge of electrical circuitry and could use your advice on a project of mine. I am attempting to build a portable power supply and will be limited to complete it due to budget constraints. I have the box for equipment, a 12v 100amp LiFePO4 Battery, a charger, a few fans for cooling with thermostatic control and thanks to your video, I will be purchasing this shunt. my question is, where do those red and black cables (I assume power out) go? I am only trying to power a 12v dual zone fridge for now.
Let me know. Thank you.

[mooneyman]

You may want to caution your users who see this video. Although you set the battery to 30% SOC in the Victron app at setup, that battery SOC is not stored in history in the app or the shunt. Therefore, once your users walk far enough away from the bluetooth range of the shunt and get disconnected, the battery may show 100% SOC the next time they reconnect to the shunt using the Victron app. This has been an ongoing problem for users like me, and many others, who do not use Victron batteries and a full Victron electrical system. I have a single 24v/200Ah server rack battery, the Victron 500A smart shunt, a Victron Lynx distributor, and a GroWatt Inverter/charger. The entire battery system works great, however the shunt "forgets" the previous battery SOC each time I disconnect from bluetooth. For example, if I manually charge the battery to 100% and sync the shunt to 100% SOC as well, then use 10% (~500 watts) of the battery capacity the shunt displays ~90% capacity remaining. If I then disconnect from the shunt's bluetooth signal (leave the van, or disable bluetooth) then later reconnect to the shunt again, the shunt often says my battery SOC is at 100% again - even though it is only at 90%. I believe the reason is that LFP batteries like mine hold a constant battery voltage until they are almost to zero capacity. The shunt sees the full voltage on the battery and believes it is at 100% SOC. The previous ~500 watts of usage I had consumed is "forgotten" by the shunt since I disconnected from bluetooth as I left the van. This is important for folks to realize, particularly if they have LFP battery chemistry not lead acid which decreases its output voltage as amperage flows out. You may want to try this yourself and perhaps do a follow-up video on this for your users. Good explanation about installing the smart shunt though. I do like the shunt for real-time monitoring of actual wattage flowing in/out as I am charging or discharging. I just no longer trust the SOC display the app provides.

[billyak]

Question, On the "Charged Voltage". The booklet I got with my battery. States 13.5 volts is 100% soc. Also it states Charge at 14.4 - 14.6 volts. So do I fill in "Charged Voltage" with 13.5 volts or 14.4 volts.? Thank you for your time and videos.
Yes I have the Victron BMV-712. The battery is a LifePo 190ah 12 volt

[SamCarleton]

Nice video, one super minor observation: you said we didn’t need the manual because you were going to show us everything, later you say make sure you torque it down correctly and to look in the manual to find out what that is…

I’m just thinking… Would’ve been nice if you would’ve known what the Torque specs are so we really didn’t need the manual🤪

[MikeVitamvas]

Thank you. Victron’s guide was a waste of time but I got through everything using your video.

[JohnAdamsDesign]

Thank you for a simple and easy to follow video!

[rodysk]

Can you make a vídeo connecting 2 lithium batteries! Thanks

[wallacegrommet]

My smart shunt never revealed state of charge accurately, but did monitor battery bank voltage very well. Either I erred in the connection process, or the shunt is defective, or both. The Bluetooth capability is awesome. After a fresh install to reflect the third battery addition, we shall have our answer. 3X 190 amp hour 12 volt lithium battery bank to supply onboard dc electric and inverter

[mjolie]

Yes, so helpful! I will be hooking mine up tomorrow. Yeah !! Thanks Again!!!

[shutterprices]

What’s the second wire for? I assume you can monitor another battery! Is this in parallel?

[Camper]

Great video, really helped a lot.Thank you.

[gormak]

Thanks for your shut set up video
Do you need I have 2 of these shunt monitors
As I have 2 x 12v lithium lifepo4 batteries in series for my 24v invertor?

[keylitho]

So how would you set this up for a Lithium ion pack that is a 4s.. so 16.8 fully charged..?

[gruponemesis]

best video on the
im assuming the process stays same for batts wired in parallel?

[jaranatube]

Thank you. Great tutorial. What are the parameters for the 206ah battery to program a Victron SmartShunt?