Recent content by debron55

Just to close out this thread - or give some additional info - There was one thing I had not done and really hadn't thought it was a potential issue - i had not disconnected power from the Victron Smart shunt and essentially rebooted it. I had unplugged it from usb and various flavors of...

those are some good points. I am using the WIFI on the pi's (both raspberry and Orange) so I will give that a shot going hardwired. Easy enough I have ethernet right there. I emailed SA a couple of times and they have not responded. It's a bummer because their tool does everything I want...

thanks for your thoughts - I have tried multiple AC power supplies with the unit - all within specs... ALl having the same failure mode seems to me not to be power. could be glitchy SD card for sure - BUT when I built out the new OrangePI I used a new SDCard with it and it started glitching...

Ok - I have an install of Solarassistant.io monitoring my EG4 6500 and EG4 batteries. For many months things were fine. THe SolarAssistant was originally monitoring my growatt solution. I upgraded the solar environment to EG4 kit. Solarassistant was running on raspberry pi 4 with latest...

I have a circumstance similar , at least in so far as the 6p error. I can't confirm that the unit is trying to send out voltage when it is in this failure mode - but my circumstance was documented in detail on this forum at...

I should add there is a victron smart shunt in the system as well and it's working fine. Give readings as well as I eliminated it from the system to troubleshoot and it was not the culprit.

SO -have 2 EG4 6500Ex's as well as 6 EG4-LL V2 rack mount batteries in a bank. Entire system looks basically like Will's video and all equipment purchased from Signature Solar. Along with 2 Breakers from Signature as well as the PV disconnects. Everything was installed as well as a...

what silent fans did you use, if I may ask? Noctua? model number?

was there a significant difference in the noise level. I wonder if adding an auxiliary air handling system to pull the air through them. I use something like this for my resin 3d printing - using the top vents to attach through or even the bottom wiring raceway (if the system has that...

Thanks for running the experiment for us.

Hello - I am curious - the statement "When you get your new Raspberry PI add a Cat 5 RJ45 to USB cable to your purchase. You will use this cable to connect the eg4 ll v2 host battery RJ45s port with the remaining USB port on your Raspberry PI. " which port on the eg4-ll v2 did you...

Do these fans trigger off of internal case temperature or are they designed to trigger off of current handled? If it's overall case temperature then we could design external air handling / venting that would reduce the temperature and thus shift the need for the active cooling these fans are...

I actually really like my Growatt unit(s) - I say units because I only ever deployed the 1 - the other I had purchased for pairing but didn't actually deploy it. The experience with the Growatt devices gave me confidence to step up to a larger system. I never personally had any problems with...

Hello everyone thats been participating in this thread - I am upgrading my system from the Growatt to the EG4 6500EX units so I won't have any additional updates for this thread from the Growatt perspective. I'll also be selling my 2 Growatt units. I'm glad this thread was so useful to folks!