Eltek H1250A power rectifier communication?

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Hi has anyone managed to communicate with the older Eltek H1250A power rectifiers?
Or even have any links or ideas about how to communicate with them to set voltage or current etc...?
They use a SPI interface unlike the newer CAN connected Flatpack2 HE ones and I cant find any specific SPI info at the moment but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
With a 42-56V @ 25A output in a 1RU format is still very compact and useful charger if I can get them to work as I've got a couple of them

I found a spec sheet,
View attachment H2510a.pdf

The pinout is connector details listing SDA and SCL.
H1250a-connector.jpg

And the wording in the spec sheet suggesting there is a generic Eltek communication protocol
"The rectifiers communicate via the proprietary Eltek Valere Communication Protocol."
coms-bus-SCL-SDA.png
 
I am also looking for communication/programming info for the older Eltek Valere rectifier. My model is the H2500A2. If you haven't seen it, there is a great thread "ULtra Compact 1800W charger + Eltek programming" that addresses the newer models here: https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=71139

I contacted Eltek support, the guy provided the two attached documents.

This is the product label on my supply.
ELTEK FP2 LABEL.JPG

My application is to use the supply to feed a solid state power amp for ham radio. A once and done permanent change to set the output voltage is what I'm looking for.
 

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I acquired an Arduino Nano and got it up and running after downloading the correct USB driver from the Chinese chip MFG's website.

I am able to request data from the supply and it does reply. I was not able to find the S/N embedded in the response as noted in the thread discussing the CAN bus message protocol.

I will try to decode the response for the temp, current, output voltage, input voltage parameters.
I also have a second identical supply I will check out.

Below are a few of the responses that I logged from the supply. I left the A2, A1, A0 address line float which should provide an address of 0x7; I found that the supply responds to an address of 0x0F. The steady state response is 35 bytes. When changing from output on to output off, the response will sometimes be 41 bytes long.

DC output disabled:
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F31
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F36
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F35
017141919FFFFFF807670305E3643005F34
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F33
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F32
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005F32
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005E31
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005E36
017141919FFFFFF807680305E3643005E36
017141919FFFFFF807670305E3643005E35

DC output enabled: output measured at 55.2 Vdc; 100 ohm resistor as a load.
017161919FFFFFF8077B3705B3603005036
017161919FFFFFF8077B3705B35F3005036
017161919FFFFFF8077A3705B35F3005035
017161919FFFFFF8077A3705B35F3005034
017161919FFFFFF8077B3705B35E3005033
017161919FFFFFF8077A3805B35E3005031
017161919FFFFFF8077B3805B35E3004F31
017161919FFFFFF8077B3705B35D3005036
017161919FFFFFF8077B3705A35C3004F35
017161919FFFFFF8077A3705A35C3004F34


DC output enabled and the disabled:
017191919FFFFFF8077A3303F33C3003032
017191919FFFFFF8072B3303F33C3002F31
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFF9F2303F33B3002F31
017191919FFFFFF8072E2303E33B3002F35
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFFD11303E33B3002F35
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFF851303E33B3002F33
017191919FFFFFF807461303E33A3002F31
017191919FFFFFF807111303E33A3002F36
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFFE60303E33A3002F35
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFFC20303D33A3002F33
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFFA40303D33A3002F31
017191919FFFFFF807FFFFFF8C0303D33A3002F36
017191919FFFFFF807780303D33A3002F34
017191919FFFFFF8076D0303E33A3002F32
017191919FFFFFF8076B0203D33B3002F31
017191919FFFFFF8076A0303D33B3002F36
017191919FFFFFF8076A0303E33B3002F35
017191919FFFFFF8076A0303D33B3002F34
017191919FFFFFF8076A0303E33B3002F33
017191919FFFFFF8076A0303D33B3002F32
 
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