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Thanks All! I got it set to boil! Hopefully they'll charge up now :) Tomorrow night Ill set the float back down to 55.

Thanks everyone for the input. I ended up getting this serial to USB cable. Plugged it into the cable that came with my inverter and it's working great with Solar Assistant. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Converter-Prolific-Chipset-CB-DB9P/dp/B00IDSM6BW

I am looking to install a small solar system at my house. I would like something that will run my refrigerator, deep freeze, and network/surveillance equipment. I am leaning toward: EG4 3kW Off-Grid Inverter 3 X EG4-LifePower4 Lithium Battery 5.1Kwh 48V I don't have a yard or space to ground...

I reached out to Solar Assistant team last week. They replied and said I needed to update to the beta. I decided to wait it out and see if it started working today after its reset. Sure enough starting today it is now updating. But I will probably update to the beta soon. Thanks everyone for...

Im not sure why it stopped reporting. Here is a history of usage from Home Assistant After Mar 11 1:00 it reset and I am no longer getting any readings. On Mar 13, I changed the timezone to Etc/GMT-7 and I started getting some readings but they were incorrect. It was showing much more...

So batteries have charged and this is what I see now. Is this good? I noticed pack #3 voltage is different.

ok, Ill look into the firmware update. I think pack #3 reached full capacity first, so it had shut off charging and was settling down to its resting value. Pack #1 and 2, had just shut off charging when I took that screen shot, so they were showing surface charge. Now that they have been sitting...

I am hooking up my EG4 3K Inverter. I have not hooked up solar power to it yet. Yet somehow it is registering 28VDC at the PV terminals. Is this normal?

Is it normal for them to show over 100% charge?

Looking at the charts. I saw the battery SOC jumped from 93% to 102% in 10 seconds. The voltage went from 55 to 58 in about 7 minutes.

If I want Solar Assistant to monitor more of my battery status do I need to unhook the comm cable from the battery to the inverter? Then get another rs232 (RJ45) to Usb cable and plug the battery comm cable directly to the solar assistant raspberry pi? I have 3 Lifepower 4 batteries. Currently...

My batteries SOC seem to be getting more and more out of sync. The voltages amongst the batteries appears to be the same. But the SOC is different between all of them. How can I get the SOC reading to be more accurate. I would think all the batteries should be within 1% of each other on the SOC...

Yes, they appear to be ok inside SA. I am seeing my daily energy accumulation. But it looks like the MQTT feeder is only sending out 0 for the pv_energy. My sensor in Home Assistant is reliant on this value. Im going to wait till Monday and hope it gets back on track.

How do I get them to 100%? It appears maybe the bms is cutting off the charging because it thinks they're charged?? I have 3 batteries. Do I need to turn 2 of them off and charge them 1 at a time? Raise the float voltage?

I noticed since the time change on Mar 11, that solar assistant is no longer populating data for the pv_energy field. Is there any way to fix this? I read elsewhere I can change the Solar Assistant Timezone setting to Etc/GMT-7. I tried this and it really skewed my daily pv energy values. I am...

I am looking for a cable to hook up my EHV3000 inverter to Solar Assistant. I see Solar Assistant has this cable, but it's a little expensive to have it shipped to me. Does anyone know if this cable will work? https://www.amazon.com/OIKWAN-Essential-Accesory-Ubiquity-Switches/dp/B082VZTB57

Are there any newbies out there that have installed a small off-grid system like this? Just curious about your experience with which solar panels you went with and what mounting system to use.

I am using Solar Assistant to manage my system. I am having a hard time trying to get it configured the way I want. I have disabled the communication between the inverter and batteries. I have a communication cable between the batteries and the inverter going to the Solar Assistant Pi. Within...

I do have the rs232 (Rj45) to Serial cable that came with the inverter to be used with the wifi dongle. You think I could get this and convert the serial end to usb. https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-Converter-Register-Industriual-Machinery/dp/B0769HDTS8

Thanks for your reply, can you please specify where to set the charging settings. I want the battery to be charged anytime it is under 100% and solar is available.

Is there a setting on the 3000EHV-48 to limit the overall current being pulled from the grid/generator? Option 11 sets the maximum utility charging current. So I can regulate the current going to charge the battery. But as soon as I plug the inverter into the grid/generator, it goes to bypass...

My batteries have been sitting idle for the last couple weeks while my system was running off the grid. I noticed that pack #3 still shows 100% while the other 2 are down to 87%. Is it possible to get the batteries back in sync without me having to unhook battery 3 and then charge 1 & 2?

Verified with manufacturer spec sheet that they are set correctly

My battery pack #3 always shows a lower State of charge than my other two batteries, yet the cell voltages seem to be higher. Also once its get to 98.x% charged the bms appears to stop the charging. You'll notice the other two packs show over 100% charge. It hasnt really been a big deal, just...

Yeah, that's why I am wondering if I need to go back to closed-loop comms and just let SA read values from the inverter. The only downside is I don't get as many details about the batteries in SA.