Connect your Alfen to Victron
Phaeton runs on your Victron system and adds your Alfen Eve as a Victron EV charging station. It shows in VRM and charges the car from solar surplus.
- Alfen EveLocal network, Modbus TCP
- Phaeton on your Victron systemAppears as a Victron EV charging station
- VRM and the Victron display
What you get
- Your charger appears in VRM and on the Victron display with its charging power and status.
- Auto mode follows the solar production and household use your Victron system measures, not only the grid meter.
- Manual, Auto and Scheduled charging from Phaeton's own page on your Victron system.
- Switches between one and three phases when the charger allows it, so charging can start with less sun.
Why not the charger's own solar mode?
A charger's own solar mode usually reads only the grid meter. With a Victron home battery, the battery takes the surplus first, so the meter shows little export and the charger keeps waiting. Phaeton reads production and use from the Victron system itself.
Before you buy
A Victron system running Venus OS. Installation guide
For the Alfen Eve:
Enable licensed Active Load Balancing and select the EMS as the source. Allow Modbus current writes and configure the fallback current and validity time through the installer.
Phase switching requires a suitable installation and the charger option allowing one and three phases. Configure each socket separately on dual-socket chargers.
In Alfen's ACE Service Installer, the EMS source is TCP/IP EMS in socket mode, with writing maximum currents allowed. If Test charger control reports that the setpoint is not accounted for, check these, the license, the validity time and the safe current. Alfen's Service Portal article KA-01167 has the Smart Charging Guide and the Modbus configuration guide.
Full setup requirementsModel not listed? Ask us before buying
One license per charger
€99 for your first charger, €49 for each extra charger in the same household. Updates included, 30-day refund.