Any Advantage to Lithium with Bluetooth?

Most measureing devices, even Victron, drift on capacity over time. I'd want to be able to stop charging at 85% and recharge when capacity was 45%. Then once per 30 days I'd want to fully recharge.

Sounds like your talking about a drop-in style battery - if so, I’m not aware of ANY drop-in w/bluetooth that displays BMS Info…BMS operates ‘passively’ to avoid catastrophic events (upper and lower charge limit and temp parameters), and secondarily for individual cell balancing…Perhaps PT can inform us about a drop-in make with the feature he suggested??

Personally, I’d skip the Bluetooth…

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StirCrazy wrote:

My question to you is, when you have the Victron setup and a shunt.... What are you using the multimeter for?

Ditto.
IMO, yes, wasted $$ on duplication. I have a Bluetooth battery. I didn’t add a shunt type monitor until after I got a second battery paralleled and still debate with myself if it was needed since with them paralleled, the state of charge should be the same.
You’ve already bought the Victron, a bluetooth battery is gilding the Lilly.

it is and it isn't you have the Victron stuff to see how many AH have gone in or out of the battery if you want to be able to change your BMS settings on the fly then ya, but if the battery doesn't allow changes but only monitoring through Bluetooth then it's pointless when you already have the Victron setup.

so you have to look at the battery you want, download their app and see what you can do and can't before you decide. if it will allow you to make changes to max and min charge points and other things then it is useful, that is if you want to learn more and make these changes. if you don't then you don't need it.

My question to you is, when you have the Victron setup and a shunt.... What are you using the multimeter for?

If you want to see what the BMS is doing go blue tooth.

I don't like guessing games--so I'd definitely go with blue tooth--if my climate permitted it.

It seems like everything today is either Blue Tooth or Wi-Fi enabled.. Even my freezer. If they offer the same battery one with one without BT and two different size Price Tags... I would choose the least expensive.