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All these discussions make me so glad I stuck with off-grid with grid backup, keeping the electric company out of my business 😎

Finally - with the days slowly getting longer, the sun rising higher in the sky, and some creative rearrangement of my backyard panels - even transplanting a small palm tree - as of three days ago I'm no longer needing to supplement the solar with any grid power at all. Woo-hoo! 🥳

I don’t feel there’s much sense in even doing a PV to battery ratio, but rather PV to load consumption ratio. Ensure you have at least sufficient PV to pull in enough power on a daily basis to cover your loads over a 24 hour period (plus enough to cover efficiency losses and some amount of...

Yeah there’s an amazing difference between the discussions here and the comments on Facebook posts in the diy solar groups. The people in this place are so much more friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Very few trolls 😎

AKA EG4 8000XP or probably more like 10kPV - lol

Ha - like a drug dealer’s free sample ?

Makes me think of all the obvious typos I see on a regular basis even in news stories from major outlets... Our English teachers must be so frustrated ;)

Just had 10 of the 370W NE Solar panels delivered from Signature Solar today. Very nice packing job - no damage ??

The best way I have found is this: 1) Enable Battery ECO mode 2) In the Discharge Settings section, set the On Grid EOD SOC% to 90%, which is the highest threshold it will accept. 3) Set the AC Charge End Battery SOC to like 2% lower - like 88% 4) Set the AC Charge Start Batter SOC to slightly...

#3 (sort of). It will switch to pure bypass mode until the load is less than the inverter capacity for a few minutes - then it will switch back to running the loads off the inverter. I have a 6000xp and it does exactly this when I turn on the dryer.

I don’t have any other Victron stuff but I do love the Lynx Power In - great compact set of well protected bus bars 😎

Yes - works great. When I go over the inverter capacity it handles the surge for a few seconds and then seamlessly switches to grid bypass. Once the load demand goes back down then after a few minutes it switches back to running off the inverter.

True in a way - but the advantages for me more than offset the downside of losing a couple of kWh a day to efficiency losses. Going to be quite a long time before those efficiency losses are going to add up to spending 2-3X more for the equipment. Plus, in my case I'm getting more than enough...

The way I look at it, if my array isn't large enough to charge the batteries to either full or at least more than where they started when the sun went down the night before, it's too small. Mine fully charge every day (at least from Feb through October).

Wow - just did all I could think of to make it fail. I maxed out the loads on the inverter up to ~95% of the capacity, with the solar cut off so the only power it had available was battery and grid. At 95% the inverter was still running purely off the battery power. Then I kicked on the dryer...

I’m not a Victron guy (yet) but got the Lynx Power In for two reasons: 1) with the limited space I have for my equipment it saves space on the wall vs having positive and negative bus bars mounted separately. 2) one thing I really like about it is better protection from accidentally touching the...

I have one on order from Current Connected. I do plan to use Solar Assistant with it - I'll report back on how it goes. I may be wrong but it appears that with the LuxPower units like this one and the 18kpv - that you might be able to use both SA and the EG4 monitoring system simultaneously...

My biggest mistake was starting too small. First an energizer solar generator from Costco. Then the EcoFlow Delta 2 Max with 2 expansion batteries and portable panels. Then the EG4 3k. Currently using the 6000xp with proper ground mounted rigid panels and planning to add a second 6000xp. I would...

Got this from someone's Facebook post. Anyone need a fuse this big for your battery rack? Oh sorry - don't see a DC rating... LOL

Someone accidentally destroyed their 6000XP and decided to disassemble it and shared pics… https://www.facebook.com/share/p/teEAFhGoF9ispctk/?mibextid=K35XfP

Looks like you have all the answers you need, but Will made a nice video on hooking up the Victron communications. Sharing in case you find it helpful...

Personally I really prefer the Victron Lynx Power In. 2x1000amp bus bars in a single enclosure with very good protection. Takes up less space on the wall, too ;)

Yeah I love mine - great solution for my backyard array here in Arizona. Used them to mount all my 370 watt NE panels. I just put several 50 pound sand bags inside each. Even during high wind monsoon storms they haven’t budged at all. I only wish they supported panels that were a bit wider...

Just received my 6000XP today from CC (well it shipped from Signature Solar - not sure what that arrangement is). Swapped out my 3000 EHV for this one. Slogged my way through the initial setup and configuration but so far so good. Have the EG4 and SA monitoring setup and working. Have it...

This certainly reminds me of the “religious” debates re: Windows vs Mac vs Linux, etc. Seems like the people who feel Victron is worth the money and those who feel it is not have all made their points and counter points and no one is going to change their mind - lol.

Excellent - thank you for the confirmation/clarification. The manual section in question is page 10 in the 1.1.7 PDF version, or page 11 in the 1.0.0 printed manual that came with my inverter. See the below table from that page in the manual:

If I'm not mistaken, the total shown there in the energy overview section for "Battery" is likely the total discharge power from the batteries. When you say the total kWh you have generated, it is tempting to just look at the solar production number, but if you are constantly running in...

@HighTechLab - you should add that to the banner on your site - “We Don’t Suck” 😎

You do have the option to monitor only with Solar Assistant and do all your configuration from the LCD screen. For myself, I use both on occasion as Solar Assistant does allow you to change some of the settings remotely, but not every configuration option on the inverter is available through SA.

Yeah if your loads aren’t going to be demanding the 50 amps of bypass you should be fine eh. Downgrading the breakers is a good idea though to protect the 8 gauge wire… every situation is unique.

It would be awesome if the information in this doc were incorporated into the manual at some point - like in section 11 where it talks about the working modes. 😎

It won't default to bypass mode, no. It will just power your loads using solar and/or battery as needed until the batteries get down to 20%. Then it will start pulling from the grid to charge your batteries at the rate you configure in the settings. That's how I was using it to start with...

Hey guys - thought I would share something I discovered on the 6000xp that's saving me money. Over the summer/fall months I was running the EG4 3000EHV with 3 of the LL V2 batteries. I would almost always get more solar energy than I could actually use with the loads I'm running off the...

Personally I haven’t had any issues with them, but a good number of people have reported issues with their customer support and some have issues with order fulfillment. I bought my EG4 3K, battery rack, and 3 of the LLV2 batteries from them without any issues. I did buy my 6000XP from current...

Awesome thank you Dexter. ??

It does, yes. I have 3 and the master reports to the inverter a max charge rate of 150A 👍🏻

I suggest clips like these to keep the wires tidy and off the roof. They're metal and clip to the underside of the panel frames so they won't break down like plastic zip ties. https://www.solar-electric.com/mccableclips.html

Most of the Victron equipment is not UL listed, so by definition I thought it couldn’t be code compliant anyway, but I’m not a code expert.

Good because that’s my plan in my next steps toward code compliance (even though my system is off grid and I won’t be having it inspected).

Ha- around here I wouldn't say N+1 is the answer. More like N TIMES 2 or 3 or 4..... 😉

I wouldn’t worry too much - these units have been very popular and there have been very few reports of defective units. Odds are yours will be fine 😎

Absolutely. I do 50 amp breakers and 6 gauge wire for the grid input to each inverter, and a combiner panel with 50 amp breakers for the outputs.

You wouldn't like it if they called it 8000kPV? ;) LOL

I highly doubt it - but maybe? The firmware is different between the two to some degree. I'm sure the vendors would all say it is not supported, which is not necessarily the same as saying that it won't work. Personally I wouldn't do it without someone else confirming they did it successfully...

Yeah I don’t know what someone was smoking. It’s clear even in the specs in the manual…

I use SA to monitor my 3000 EHV and it didn't show the inverter temperature until I switched to the SA beta channel and started running the latest dev versions. Now I do have the inverter temp data. ?

lol - had to look at it twice - thought it read 10kWh at first 😉

In spite of someone from Reliance Controls saying this, it is nonsensical to me. When a circuit switch is set to "Line" it connects the load to the wire connected to the original load circuit's circuit breaker from the main panel. If it is set to "Gen" then it connects the load to the hot...

I have to stop reading this thread now. It is making me jealous of you guys with arrays that put my 5kw array to shame 😎