Alright, thanks for your patience. I made sure I took some screenshots and I want to explain a bit about usage of the app. When you first plug in and open your app you'll see something like the following:
This is a readout of what the chargers and the bike are doing. Each 'tick' in this case is 4 lines tall. It may vary on your phone size. It's telling me things like current battery voltage, amps going to the batteries, battery temperature readings, amp hours of the batteries, number of chargers, requested wattage rate, max wattage rate, and software version number. Things to note about this software in general is there are no decimal points and that all commands are issued via commas with no spaces. Therefore 1025 is actually a voltage reading of 102.5. This will be the same when issuing commands, so let's move on to that.
In the top of the screen notice both the words 'Console' as well as 'Functions'. Press Functions:
Oh boy. My Functions tab is a mess. Some of these commands are for internal testing so this is where you get to decide what you want. Each of these buttons reflect a command to issue the chargers, and I've (poorly) labeled them. So how do we make/edit them? See the crossed Pencil and Ruler icon in the top right next to the word Functions? Press that; it's an edit button:
Initially yours will be blank, but press the + sign in the bottom left of the screen to create New Button Element:
This is where we cover the various commands for your chargers. You'll need to give your command a useful name, button color, and message. The first thing to do is change the message type from Hex (default) to UTF8. From there you'll see I have the following command:
1164,126,3,9900,0,50
Let's make some sense of this.
1164 = 116.4V or 100% charge. This is the target charge percentage
126 = 126Ah, or the amp hours of my batteries. This is actually not so important to know/enter because the software is written so it will listen to the bike first and obey whatever the bike says the amp hours are. This way if there is some malfunction and your bike miscalculates the amp hours the chargers will obey what the bike thinks is safe as a precautionary measure. You can actually write what you want in this field. I use my actual Amp hours, 126 (104 monolith + 22 power tank).
3 = # of chargers.
9900 = 9.9kW target wattage. This is the maximum amount of watts the chargers will request from the station(s). If you know you're at a station with low power this is the value to change so you can avoid tripping breakers.
0 = Keep this field at 0 unless otherwise instructed. It's only for users who have brought their bikes to us to override the 1C charge limit.
50 = wattage tick rate. The chargers don't immediately ramp up to 9.9kW when plugged in. They start at 0 and each tick goes up 50 watts a time until it reaches the target goal.
Let's make a different command. For example, this next command will be for a bike that has 2 chargers, maximum of 6.6kW, and the user wants to stop around 80%
1100,126,2,6600,0,50
1100 = 110.0 Volts which is around 80%
126 = 126 Amp hours, my battery pack in this example
2 = 2 chargers
6600 = 6600 watts or 6.6kW
0 = keep this 0
50 = 50 watt tick rate
Also because I realized how messy it was I took some time to clean up some of my button functions. Now it looks like this:
I added a Stop command (0 target wattage) mostly for internal testing.
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