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User Manual

NMEA 2000 Battery Monitor YDBM-01

also covers models

YDBM-01N, YDBM-01R

Firmware version

1.00

2021

Summary of Contents for NMEA 2000 YDBM-01

Page 1: ...User Manual NMEA 2000 Battery Monitor YDBM 01 also covers models YDBM 01N YDBM 01R Firmware version 1 00 2021...

Page 2: ...com NMEA 2000 Battery Monitor is certified by the National Marine Electronics Association NMEA 2000 is a registered trademark of the National Marine Electronics Association SeaTalk NG is a registered...

Page 3: ...LED Signals 23 VIII Quick Setup List 25 IX Device Configuration and Settings 26 X Battery Synchronization 48 XI NMEA 2000 Digital Switching Support 53 XII Firmware Updates 56 Appendix Troubleshooting...

Page 4: ...batteries calculated data state of charge consumed ampere hours battery time remaining are output to an NMEA 2000 network The data can be displayed on MFDs or instrument displays and is available to...

Page 5: ...de the cost of equipment installation and configuration or shipping of the defective Device to the manufacturer 5 Responsibility of the manufacturer in case of any damage as a consequence of the Devic...

Page 6: ...rent types of NMEA 2000 connectors Models containing R in the suffix of the model name are equipped with NMEA 2000 connectors and are compatible with Raymarine SeaTalk NG Models containing N in the su...

Page 7: ...d DC voltage on inputs with respect to GND input 40 V Breakdown voltage between NMEA 2000 network interface and inputs 2500 VRMS Device case length without connector 54 mm Weight 60 g Operating temper...

Page 8: ...thdrawing your finger too quickly or not pushing until it clicks may result in the unexpected ejection of the card from the slot To avoid possible injury damage or loss please insert and eject the car...

Page 9: ...d or Lithium ion batteries Further information will primarily relate to these battery types NiCad and NiMH batteries have significant memory and self discharge effects etc which are not taken into acc...

Page 10: ...takes 100 of its energy without any loss In real world conditions the amount of energy available from a battery heavily depends on the discharge rate and to a lesser extent on the battery s temperatu...

Page 11: ...ce has been significantly reduced vs Depth of Discharge Discharging below the specified DoD limit would damage the battery and decrease its expected lifespan commonly expressed as state of health SoH...

Page 12: ...comprehensive list of possible uses of the Device They just give an overview of the Battery Monitor s capabilities in a number of real life applications 1 Monitoring of batteries on modern and legacy...

Page 13: ...come more popular MFD manufacturers will upgrade their solutions to let them handle the full range of data that the Battery Monitor supplies In the Device s settings you can configure DC source type a...

Page 14: ...e Alarm Button allows uploading of custom alarm signals or voice messages 4 Turn on a genset to recharge the battery On a sailing journey there might be a lot of reasons to sail motorless During such...

Page 15: ...is triggered If your charging equipment is not capable to initiate recharging automatically you may use the Device s Digital Switching commands to activate e g a genset In this case you may require a...

Page 16: ...behaviour of a DC load In normal conditions a bilge pump is rarely seen in operation If it consumes current continuously this may be a sign of hull leakage or other major problems If the bilge pump fe...

Page 17: ...s on DS channel 1 at bank 0 when the pump is continuously switched on i e is consuming more than 0 2 amperes for more than 20 minutes 1200 seconds Negative current value means that the DC load is disc...

Page 18: ...al shunt appearance The Battery Monitor measures voltage drop across a shunt in the range of 50 50 mV This means that with the use of a shunt of a greater voltage drop than 50mV the maximum measured c...

Page 19: ...s rated current We recommend using a 75 mV shunt and selecting a current rating that takes into consideration that maximum current of you system should be less than 65 of the shunt s rated current Thi...

Page 20: ...g connections refer to the diagram below see Figure 1 on the next page Make sure to use a marine grade power cable with proper voltage current temperature and water oil resistance ratings Proper choic...

Page 21: ...drop cable required Before connecting the Device turn off the bus power supply If you have any questions regarding the use of connecting cables terminators or connectors please refer to the following...

Page 22: ...e successful connection to the NMEA 2000 network See the full list of the Device s LEDs signals in Section VII Figure 2 NMEA devices list on a Raymarine Axiom MFD Information about the Device will app...

Page 23: ...croSD card operations When you insert a MicroSD card into the slot the LED gives a series of 3 signals which indicate the following GREEN GREEN GREEN the YDBM TXT configuration file has been read and...

Page 24: ...r the process has been completed the Device emits sequences of 6 flashes every 20 seconds see Figure 1 in X 2 When the Partial Synchronization is finished see X 1 the LED gives a series of four GREEN...

Page 25: ...ce unique battery number 0 for the first or a single battery 1 for the next battery and so on Battery parameters NOMINAL_VOL Nominal voltage Volts Max 36 V CAPACITY Nominal capacity ampere hours NOMIN...

Page 26: ...der of the MicroSD card A sample configuration file is included in Appendix C File contents should match the following rules parameters and their values have to be entered in UPPER CASE each parameter...

Page 27: ...ues If this string is present in the configuration file all other settings are ignored IMPORTANT When you use this parameter all calculation results for SoC consumed ampere hours time remaining SoH ar...

Page 28: ...so on DC_TYPE BATTERY ALTERN ATOR CONVERTOR SOLAR_ CELL WIND_GENERATOR Factory setting BATTERY DC Type for PGN 127506 DC Detailed Status Legacy NMEA 2000 devices may not support this PGN CAPACITY x x...

Page 29: ...Use UNKNOWN for NiCD NiMH batteries CHARGED_CUR x x from 0 5 to 10 0 one decimal place Factory setting 4 0 One of the 3 charged criteria if the charge current drops below this value expresses as a per...

Page 30: ...nfiguration file CHEMISTRY LEAD_ACID LI_ ION NICAD ZNO NIMH Factory setting LEAD_ACID Battery Chemistry parameter in PGN 127513 Battery Configuration Status Used for reporting to choose default values...

Page 31: ...of batteries if the exponent value is not specified set it to 1 00 which disables the Peukert compensation CHARGE_EFF x x integer from 50 to 100 Factory setting 95 Charge Efficiency Factor in percent...

Page 32: ...he battery see Section X MARETRON OFF ON Factory setting OFF Compatibility mode of digital switching functions for Maretron and Carling Tech equipment 3 SXn_a c t b ch NEVER Digital Switching rules se...

Page 33: ...charge hour rates 1 and 2 Please note that Peukert s formula is no more than a rough approximation of reality and that at very high currents battery capacity will be even lower than predicted from a f...

Page 34: ...e installation description field 2 For example YD DEV 1 will change the NMEA 2000 device instance of the Device to 1 If the command is accepted by the Device it adds DONE to the entered string and YD...

Page 35: ...g a new value into the dedicated field see Address Claim pane on the screenshot After you enter the command as shown in Figure 1 click the Update button to apply changes the value in the Device Instan...

Page 36: ...pecify this value according to your actual shunt s nominal settings Factory setting 75 YD TEMPERATURE 0 252 UNKNOWN YD TEMPERATURE 1 Sets NMEA 2000 temperature instance for the battery temperature mea...

Page 37: ...APACITY 120 Specifies battery capacity in ampere hours in PGN 127513 Battery Configuration Status 1 65532 Ah integer value IMPORTANT Changing this value resets all calculation results for SoC consumed...

Page 38: ...than the cut off the end of charge voltage of the charger Factory setting 13 2 UNKNOWN sets voltage to the default value for Lead Acid and Lithium Ion types see Table 1 in X 3 Use UNKNOWN for NiCD Ni...

Page 39: ...AGM UNKNOWN YD BATTERY_TYPE GEL Specifies battery type in PGN 127513 Battery Configuration Status for reporting only Factory setting FLOODED YD EQUALIZ_SUPPORT NO YES UNKNOWN YD EQUALIZ_SUPPORT NO Sp...

Page 40: ...or calculations Factory setting LEAD_ACID YD TEMP_COEF 0 5 YD TEMP_COEF 2 3 Specifies battery temperature coefficient capacity percent per centigrade degree in PGN 127513 Battery Configuration Status...

Page 41: ...ukert s exponent represents the effect of discharge rate on battery capacity Factory setting 1 25 If the value is not known keep it at 1 25 for lead acid batteries and change to 1 05 for Li ion batter...

Page 42: ...cy compensation Charge Efficiency of Li ion batteries higher than Lead Acid batteries recommended value is 99 Factory setting 95 YD CALCS ON OFF YD CALCS ON Enables or disables calculations of the bat...

Page 43: ...the date of last Partial Synchronization YD SOH YD SOH Returns current State of Health value and the date of last Full Synchronization If Full Synchronization is on see YD FULL_SYNC above or section...

Page 44: ...0 ms integer value 0 turns off periodic transmission Factory settings are shown as examples YD SXn ON OFF condition time bank channel NEVER YD SV1 ON 12 60 0 1 See IX 3 for details If you enter a comm...

Page 45: ...current temperature and state of charge By default all rules are set to NEVER 3 1 Setting rules in a configuration file You may include dedicated lines for setting Digital Switching rules in the YDBM...

Page 46: ...Installation Description strings To set Digital Switching rules you may use the following command formats YD SXn ON OFF condition time bank channel NEVER where X measured or calculated parameter V vol...

Page 47: ...YD SXn ON NEVER or YD SXn OFF NEVER To disable an ON or OFF rule of a specified number use the following command YD SWx ON OFF NEVER To display the ON OFF pair for the specified rule number use the c...

Page 48: ...rform the Partial Synchronization command YD CALCS ON or CALCS ON in the YDBM TXT file see Section IX To keep the calculated SoC value credible we recommend you to perform Partial Synchronization at l...

Page 49: ...rameters or the command YD SOH see IX 2 Calculations must be on to perform the Full Synchronization command YD CALCS ON or CALCS ON in the YDBM TXT file see Section IX To run the process enter the com...

Page 50: ...arged see X 1 for details about full charge state of health will be updated state of charge will be set to 100 and the consumed Ah will be set to 0Ah FULL_SYNC will be automatically set to OFF YD FULL...

Page 51: ...ent battery types in Volts Nominal Voltage Volts Charged voltage Discharged voltage Lead Acid Lithium Ion Lead Acid Lithium Ion NiCd NiMH 6 6 6 5 25 5 12 13 2 10 5 10 8 24 26 4 21 22 8 32 35 2 28 31 2...

Page 52: ...ored for some time To restore credible readings you have to update parameters according to the actual state of your battery This can be achieved through the synchronization procedure partial or full s...

Page 53: ...e g relay banks Products described in this chapter may become a valuable addition to your digital switching system 1 Yacht Devices NMEA 2000 Circuit Control YDCC 04 The Circuit Control incorporates on...

Page 54: ...and laptops Both have an internal web server with a special web page called Web Gauges which allows viewing vessel data from a standard web browser Figure 1 Web Gauges screenshot The Battery Monitor...

Page 55: ...y Monitor can turn ON and OFF electrical loads connected to third party NMEA 2000 digital switching equipment managed with NMEA 2000 Standard PGN 127501 and 127502 The Device is compatible with Oceani...

Page 56: ...achtd com downloads If the Device has the same firmware version already installed or the update file is corrupted the Battery Monitor automatically returns to normal operation You can check the firmwa...

Page 57: ...ss There are more than 252 NMEA devices already in the NMEA 2000 network Consider using our NMEA 2000 Bridge YDNB 07 to divide your network into separate segments No three green blinks on powering on...

Page 58: ...rent values are displayed upon charging the battery positive upon discharging 1 Improper wiring to the shunt Double check all connections to the shunt No current voltage data on the chartplotter 1 Inc...

Page 59: ...ation 2 Battery reconnected after being used separately with a noticeable loss of charge 3 if a new battery is connected The battery has partially lost its charge In any of the 3 cases perform a Parti...

Page 60: ...60928 Yes Yes ISO Commanded Address 65240 Yes NMEA Group Function 126208 Yes Yes PGN List 126464 Yes System Time 126992 Yes Heartbeat 126993 Yes 60 Product Information 126996 Yes Configuration Informa...

Page 61: ...61 Message name PGN Receive Transmit Transmission interval sec Temperature Extended Range 130316 Yes Note 1 this PGN is transmitted immediately after PGN 127506 DC Detailed Status Table continued...

Page 62: ...12 10V current 0 0A temperature is not available Calculations SOC consumed AH time remaining and SOH ON OFF CALCS OFF State of Charge not available Calculations are off State of Health not available C...

Page 63: ...The battery voltage should be above this value to consider the battery fully charged CHARGED_VOL 13 2 Charged Current of the battery capacity One of the 3 charged criteria If the charge current drops...

Page 64: ...CHARGED_VOLTAGE 10 5 Battery type FLOODED GEL AGM UNKNONN BATTERY_TYPE FLOODED Equalization support Indicates if the battery supports equalization EQUALIZ_SUPPORT UNKNOWN Battery Chemistry LEAD_ACID L...

Page 65: ...SV3_ON NEVER SV3_OFF NEVER SC1_ON NEVER SC1_OFF NEVER SC2_ON NEVER SC2_OFF NEVER SC3_ON NEVER SC3_OFF NEVER ST1_ON NEVER ST1_OFF NEVER ST2_ON NEVER ST2_OFF NEVER ST3_ON NEVER ST3_OFF NEVER SS1_ON NEVE...

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