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Hi All, PV1 has the ability to input 2 strings of panels. The manual says each string should be facing the same direction and be the same type of panel. That's easy enough. The manual says for PV1 uses can input 2 strings. However, it says the maximum voltage for PV1 input is 550V. Does...

Hi, I've seen that some inverters can run Battery free off Utility/Grid AC. But I can't seem to find one that will do this with 240V input/output. Some of the units that can function in series/paralell say that the Grid-Backup only works for 120V. Is there an inverter, or 2 in parallel, I...

Is there a way to have the EG4 inverter only ask the utility for 50 AMPs maximum AC Input? I'd like to avoid using a 60 AMP circuit because then I have to up my AC input wiring to AGW4, and I don't have enough of it right now to make the long run from my panel to my inverter. I'd like to use the...

I ended up using a different bracket to attach to the roof because the L brackets didn't stick up high enough to clear the S type tile. I ended up using Solar Tile Brackets from Benny's Solar on Ebay. Funny side note, he lives in the same area and i picked them up in person. He's fantastic and...

Thank you! These are great places for me to start.

Those are fantastic! Wow. A 120V, 15 AMP water heater. That's the dream. When my current one breaks, that's the one I'll replace it with. Thanks for the tip!

I have this exact same problem. How did you end up resolving it?

Sorry, I forgot to specify. On the above graph, I switched over to consumption mode at 11. You can see at that point where the loads switch over to the grid rather than the EPS mode.

Hi All, I live in a typical neighborhood subdivision in the American Southwest. I have a roof mounted systems with 20 panels. My house doesn't have a grounding rod that I can access without going into my main breaker panel for the whole house. It looks like the grounding wire leaves my main...

Yes, sorry, I should have been more clear. I'm not going to run the entire house on the Solar. I'm only running the AC and electric car charger, so it won't be hooked into the panel and shouldn't have any backfeed onto the grid in the event of an outage. It's like grid-tied solar for 2...

Hi! Did you end up solving this problem? I'm looking to do something similar and would like to hear what you learned. Thanks!

It does. I avoided using a combiner box as my string amperage fuse inside the panel is 20 AMPs, and each panel has an amperage of 11.2. So, if I put my 2 strings together with a combiner box I'd have 22.2 AMPs, I think I'd need a fuse on the positive side of each panel in that case. I have 20...

I haven't tested this as I run in Solar Only charging mode, but I'm assuming it slows down charging of the battery when in bypass mode if the load on the AC Output AND the load of charging the batteries exceeds 6500Watts. I believe you get 6500 Watts, a little less than the 60AMP at 120V...

Sure. It's a combination of multiple settings on the EG4-6500 when you have EG4 batteries connected with the com cable (remember that com cable is a weird cat5 with a different pinouts on each end. It has an end that plugs into the battery and an end that goes into the inverter, if you switch it...

Thanks everyone! I'm reading through the manual of the EG4 6500 EX-48, and I don't see it mentioned if they have this ability like Robby's Sol-Ark does or if they are more like TIm's Growatt's. Anyone know the specifics for the EG4 6500 EX-48?

One other option, that is slightly controversial, is to use the "EG4" battery setting in option 5. If you select "EG4", and have the proper communication wire to your battery stack, you could setup your threshold for switching into bypass mode off the battery State of Charge %. Now, some people...

The idle isn't that bad honestly. My water heater is the hardest part. It'll go through 3 or 4kWh for a long shower. With a family of 4, that adds up pretty quickly.

Is there any recommended safety margin or factor when remaining below Voc on solar string input? I have 10 panels with a Open-Circuit Voltage of 49.35. My EG4-6500 inverter has a max Open-Circuit Voltage of 500 Volts. My 10 panels would have a max Voc of 493.5 Volts. That's so close to my...

Thanks! I hadn't heard about overpaneling. I'll look into that!

Hi All, I noticed the 18K will automatically charge my batteries to 15% SOC from the grid, even when I have AC charging as off. Has anyone else noticed this? If I set my On-Grid Cut Off AC to 10% and my Off-Grid Cut Off AC at 10%, when the battery gets to 10% SOC, the inverter will use AC...

I do this too, but there are a few times a week where my loads are too variable outside my control. For example, if I'm doing laundry, and the AC is trying to hold a temp, it's possible my water heater, AC, and Dryer would all kick on at the same time. This would overload my AC output (the...

Hi All, I have 2 EG4 6500 Inverters and only 1 (for right now) EG4 LifePower4 battery. In setting 2, maximum battery charge rate, the inverters automatically reset this setting to not exceed 50 AMPs between the 2 of them. So, inverter 1 sometimes resets this setting to 20 AMPs while inverter...

Yes. I put in support braces between my roof trusses. I put 2X4 braces between the rafters where each screw went through the roof so it had something to attach to. Always anchor each screw to a solid, fixed point. It's not the weight of the panel, it's the lifting force from the wind. Create a...

Hmmm, I can't find a short circuit current spec. All my panels are on the same roof facing the same direction, so we should be good there.

Hi, I run2 EG4-6000s, in parallel, in SBU mode with Solar Only as my battery charging method for 3 LifePower4 batteries. Is there a way on the EG4-6500s to set a threshold where it will activate Utility charging when the battery drops below a specified number, say 5%? Right now, when the...