Skybox Manual Firmware Upgrade

Modified on Tue, 03 Jan 2023 at 11:57 AM

If it Has an Error 20 - Please Clear that First!



First you must clear the Error 20 that is on the screen. To do so, please first try turning the power off and back on with the power button on the BMS:


If it clears the error, proceed to the Manual firmware upgrade section.


If it does not, when the error 20 shows up, the batteries that are blinking are the ones that need to be turned off individually. To do so, you must take the right side panels off of the batteries. So turn those off manually (the red switch that each individual battery has beneath the black-clear panel).

Let them be off for about 5 seconds and turn them back on. Once they come back on, that will clear the error temporarily.

With the error cleared, you can manually upgrade the firmware.


Upgrade Firmware Manually

To do this, you can download the firmware files here:

Go to where it says "Latest Firmware".

There are 5 files beginning with a ZR in this folder.

With a USB flash drive, please back it up (if you need the files that are on it) and once you have everything backed up delete everything in it. Make sure it is formatted in the "FAT32" file system. 


To format it in FAT32, please do the following. Go to the File Explorer.


Once in the file explorer, select the USB flash drive from the "This PC" section and find the USB Drive:


Right click on the USB Drive and select "Format":


In the Format section, select FAT32 as the File system:



Once it is empty, please place the five files starting with ZR in the flash drive's root folder:


Once the USB drive folder is empty, put the five files into the folder like the following image:


Once you have that, eject the USB drive from the computer and put it into the Skybox's USB drive. 



Some skyboxes beep when you put it in (some don't beep at all).  


If the skybox beeped when you put it in, wait until it beeps twice. When it beeps twice, it means that the files have been downloaded unto the skybox and you may proceed to remove the USB drive from the skybox.


If it doesn't beep at all, let the drive be in there for about 2-5 minutes and remove it after that.

Once you remove the USB drive, it will go into the firmware upgrade.

You'll see an error 25 on the screen:


Then the Error 25 will go away and a small number starting with 8 at the top and then there'll be an incremental count going from 1-99. The amount of times it does this depends on the amount of modules you have. So, if you have 4, it's going through 81-84 (not necessarily in that order).


When you see the regular SOC and SOH screen, the update has been finished.

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