Recent content by fafrd

N.P. - take your time. I’m just happy another member may benefit from my painful lessons learned… It was a long and twisted road for me before I finally figured out that the 10-15% ‘gap’ between the current x voltage I was reading at my main panel (which pretty much agreed with what my NEP...

I don’t know anything about your sense meter and how accurately it computes Watts from AC current and voltage. You are doing exactly the correct thing and my advice to you is to focus on the things you can directly measure, meaning AC current and AC voltage. Because of the missing panel, you...

Ah, that’s why you may not have any throttling to deal with. Your inverters are capped at 2.09A versus mine that are capped at 2.46… Nice panels. Definitely overpanelled but because you are limited to 2.09A, overheating should never be an issue. That’s what I expected. 1/4” definitely...

Interesting, thanks. Was there a recommended air gap you were aiming for? Your BDM600X2s are red, not green, correct? And have max AC current output of 2.46A, right? The green 300X2 inverters I started with in 2016 only had sustained output of 250W / max output current of 2.08A, while the...

Should be the same as mine then. The only way you can know whether you have the same current throttling I’m seeing is to monitor real-time AC current on your home run wire using a clamp-type current meter. You can also do this by watching your utility meter for ~3-4 minutes during the peak...

‘real time’ wattage is certainly optimistic since it seems to be reporting available DC power rather than AC power output, as I indicated. Something funny appears to happen when the inverters overheat and begin throttling but from what I see, it looks like the gateway is relatively accurately...

Same here. I got mine just as the newest version started shipping in January 2023 - when did you get yours? NEP’s power output (W instantaneous, not kWh) seems to indicate ‘available input power’ rather than ‘output power’ as labeled. The BDM600X2s also begin to throttle-back output power to...

Which NEP microinverters do you have?

Yes. Any abrupt disconnect by the BMS while the GTIL is on-grid and generating can kill it.

It may be that the prohibition against owner installation of ESS is only for SGIP incentives and not for permitting and inspection. I’ve heard from other members whose municipalities have allowed them to permit and owner-install an ESS, so it may only be if you try register with PG&E to get a...

How do you know it’s supposed to be ‘Seems’ and not ‘Seen’’???

Seems like this should not impact legacy NEM 1/2 customers, but since I just found some information on the new E-ELEC rate plan PG&E is planning to move all NEM 3.0 customers to by yearend, I thought I would share: https://www.solar.com/learn/pge-electric-rates/#rates 10kWh of export...

AC First settings within End User Application Setting (Section 5.1) as well as Installer Application Setting (Section 6.2). It is clear that AC First start and end times dictate when the inverter should be switched to Bypass (grid power). As I just posted, it is not at all clear to me what...

For any/all EG4 6000XP owners out there, can anyone explain the difference between ‘End User Settings’ (Section 5) and ‘Installer Serttings’ (Section 6)? These settings overlap by ~90% so what happens if they conflict? Do the Installer Settings define defaults that can be overwritten by...

Thanks, seems similar to the FLIR One Pro (160 x 120 pixel resolution for $400) at the price of the FLIR Gen3 (80 x 60 pixel resolution for $180). Christmas coming up and I’ve got an IR camera on my list :). I’ll be looking forward to any updates you can provide as to accuracy as you gain more...