bentael
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Hi have a REVO II 5.5K setup with 5.5k watts solar panels setup and x8 12v 200Ah AGM batteries at 48v
Where I am we have a lot of "grid power cuts", so I prefer to use SOLAR then AC then Batteries in that order, because if we get a power cut right after dusk and my batteries are exhausted from a cloudy day, I will loose power at night....
Long story short, I setup my REVO to use the SOLAR + AC mode, which according to the manual
However, I noticed that first 600 maybe 700 watts are always supplied by the AC. My home's cruising load is about 600 watts* so even when the sun is shining at noon, REVO is still drawing about 600w from the grid (assuming the grid is ON), BUT the LCD screen is lying at me, it says that the load is using SOLAR not AC, I am using a CURRENT clamp meter to tell how much power the inverter is drawing, and it's almost always around 2.5-3 amps at 220v, hence the 600 watts
Also, if I increase the load, say 2500 watts, the inverter (by the current clamp meter remains at ~3 amps), so the inverter is not doing a total bypass, just like a partial bypass, but that's disappointing because I expected to almost at 100% from solar during the day.
I know I can manually cut off the grid during the day, or setup a timer for that, say 9am-4pm or something, but I didn't want to that because sometimes I am not home for a few days, or maybe it's a heavy cloudy day, I want it to fall back to AC not the batteries, the whole idea of getting a smart inverter is for it to be smart.
I contacted the company and to my surprise they said that the REVO II inverted needs 1.6AMPS to run when on AC, even when there is 0 load, and it's TRUE I tried it, I cut off the house load power breaker and the inverter draws 1.6AMPS from the AC to keep running, that's ~350 watts from my house's cruising power of 600 watts, 350w is insane for internal function if you ask me.
So, if the inverter is using 350w for it to run, that leaves me with another 300w (home cruising consumption, fridge, some lights and routers) that should be supplied by solar, but it's not, the inverter decides to bypass them even if there is enough sun power, so almost all day, we're just using AC wasting away the solar power we could have used.
I have linked a video showing the issue, the second part of the video also shows the difference when I increase the load to over 2000w
Thank you for your help.
Where I am we have a lot of "grid power cuts", so I prefer to use SOLAR then AC then Batteries in that order, because if we get a power cut right after dusk and my batteries are exhausted from a cloudy day, I will loose power at night....
Long story short, I setup my REVO to use the SOLAR + AC mode, which according to the manual
Solar + AC: Solar energy provides power to the loads as the first priority. If solar energy is not sufficient to power all loads, AC energy will supply power to the loads at the same time
However, I noticed that first 600 maybe 700 watts are always supplied by the AC. My home's cruising load is about 600 watts* so even when the sun is shining at noon, REVO is still drawing about 600w from the grid (assuming the grid is ON), BUT the LCD screen is lying at me, it says that the load is using SOLAR not AC, I am using a CURRENT clamp meter to tell how much power the inverter is drawing, and it's almost always around 2.5-3 amps at 220v, hence the 600 watts
Also, if I increase the load, say 2500 watts, the inverter (by the current clamp meter remains at ~3 amps), so the inverter is not doing a total bypass, just like a partial bypass, but that's disappointing because I expected to almost at 100% from solar during the day.
I know I can manually cut off the grid during the day, or setup a timer for that, say 9am-4pm or something, but I didn't want to that because sometimes I am not home for a few days, or maybe it's a heavy cloudy day, I want it to fall back to AC not the batteries, the whole idea of getting a smart inverter is for it to be smart.
I contacted the company and to my surprise they said that the REVO II inverted needs 1.6AMPS to run when on AC, even when there is 0 load, and it's TRUE I tried it, I cut off the house load power breaker and the inverter draws 1.6AMPS from the AC to keep running, that's ~350 watts from my house's cruising power of 600 watts, 350w is insane for internal function if you ask me.
So, if the inverter is using 350w for it to run, that leaves me with another 300w (home cruising consumption, fridge, some lights and routers) that should be supplied by solar, but it's not, the inverter decides to bypass them even if there is enough sun power, so almost all day, we're just using AC wasting away the solar power we could have used.
I have linked a video showing the issue, the second part of the video also shows the difference when I increase the load to over 2000w
Thank you for your help.