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Another interesting thing to note on the opposite side of this coin is, I am in the path of this hurricane in Florida. I want to go into the storm with a full charge of battery power so I enabled AC charging and am bringing my batteries up to 100%. However, I cannot find any way to tell the...

Thanks for the idea!

Lesson learned for sure. I took care to disconnect the PV strings and in my mind, there was no other source of input power.

Well......wiring diagrams are nice pretty things. I can't say I have the patience to make a nice pretty thing but I put this together... I am including a couple of photos to spare myself from drawing out the details. The distribution panel is backfed through a couple of phase-aligned 40A...

I kept the panels side by side to make moving the wiring easier and the drywall guy built a nice box at the top so I wouldnt have to tear up my header like they did in the old days. They dont want you doing that these days so all my conduit comes in front of my wall header now.

I dont want to do any more work with my panels. I tore my drywall out to put in an isolated panel and moved all the circuits that I wanted in the house on solar onto that one and paid a guy to come and redo the drywall so I'm not going back to that. SS Sells a bunch of different inverter...

Hi Dyotat100. I run the Micro Air ASY-368-X48-BLUE on my 3 Ton condenser. I also have the 18KPV inverter. My soft start reports a peak 32A start draw on my unit and it doesn't even flicker the LED lights in my home during start. 20A additional is quite a bit though so I cannot say what my setup...

No bond screw or any type of bond offering in the inverter. No talk of neutral handling at all in the manual. I swear these inverters remind me of this scene from Family Guy Good luck everybody!

But if I lose the grid won't that cause me to lose power on the load side?

Understandably from the photo, you've misinterpreted what you see. That green wire isn't jumping the neutral, it's riding up the side of the block but you can't see it until it bends around to the ground bar. The two big bars on the sides are the plug-on neutral buses and yes the #8 whites are...

I have a brand new EG4 18K inverter that I just finished the installation on. Today I am keeping an eye on it and I notice that it is stealing little bursts of power from the grid all day long. The unit is connected to 800Ah of EG4-LL and was generating +12kw on the solar but nonetheless, it...

Damn, that looks almost identical to mine. When you say "lights flashing" is that only during the start ramp or do they continue flashing following the start on the run cycle?

Thanks Bentley. My previous Voltronic 6K units (EG4 EX6000-HV48) did not behave this way. They had "modes", "Solar/Battery", "Hybrid" or "Solar/Battery/Utility [SBU]", and "Solar/Utility/Battery [SUB]". Only in Hybrid mode or SUB mode would they take any power at all from the grid. So this was...

Hi Gaboy, solar assistant will not work in closed-loop. You will need your USB RS-232 from S.A. plugged into each battery independently. I have 8 batteries so battery #1 is ID2 through ID9 on battery #8. You CAN NOT use ID1 because that sets the thing into closed-loop mode. Do not have the...

Due to some previous inverter issues, I wasn't able to use closed-loop comms with my eight EG4-LL batteries. I purchased Solar Assistant and connected my battery's BMS outputs to it alongside my inverter outputs. What an amazing amount of insight this locally connected system gave me! I could...

I purchased two of the Sungold Power TP6048 units and installed them in parallel. I wish I would have come across this thread though before making that purchase. The power quality from these units is so poor there is no way I can keep using them. I am well acquainted with "Cindy" over at SGP...

My "idle" averages right at 1KWh.