Recent content by kelvinfpv

According to Sol_ark tech, that's actually not correct information. The SOLAR POWER setting doesn't do anything on smartload. Apparently its for some other use of the gen terminal. I'm writing a letter to Solark now to try and get that changed as Smart Load is brilliant for sunny days but it's...

Ok. I assumed sense I had generator coming in on grid lug, that ment on grid. It's all very confusing when solark considers grid to mean generator (as in, grid charge settings) and grid to only mean grid as is this case. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up.

I have a Sol-ark 15k set up for off grid with 5 eg4 ll's and a 14Kw generator. We have a LP water heater and an electric in front of it. I have it set to kick on at 95% and off at 90. 6000w solar. My problem is it kicks on when they reach 95 and completely ignores the solar requirement. At 3 am...

Myles, how did that experiment go? The flickering when running the generator drives me nuts. Id consider buying a chargeverter if that worked out well for you. I'm trying to sort out a problem with my smartload now. We haven't seen the sun in a while so I'm running the generator occasionally. I...

Curious, What is your max charge you are seeing going into your batteries in open loop? when I first set up my system in open loop I couldn't get the EG4 LL v2's to take more than 18amps per battery no matter how I set the inverter. as soon as I set up closed loop, I could get the full rate...

I'm pretty dumb to all of this so bare with me. Where do I copy the default dashboard from and then where do I paste it?

Does anyone know if there is a way to include my SA data into a grafana dashboard without using HA? I know little to nothing about Grafana but would like to setup my own dashboard that looks different than the standard SA.

I was able to shut it down from my main home 1 hour away (the sun is about to come up) but I don't understand why it started. I don't believe it is a maintenance cycle. I think I may have some conflicting settings the way the spikes are taking place. I'm not completely certain what the settings...

That's awesome! I have a conductor run to the house for smart load but haven't connected it yet. (Electric WH) if I change the auxiliary to load in SA do I get those menus but then loose the start stop settings?

I just got a hotspot out at the property so I can finally poke around in SA from my couch. The settings in the solark 15k itself doesn't have the option to stop the generator without getting all complicated with you settings. I stumbled across this just now. I have it set to 30% on and 41% off...

I have 5 LL v'2 and I'm regretting it more and more every day. The screens wake up ridiculously slow. I guess the extra warranty will be nice. I will mess around with them this weekend when I get back over to the property but I think I already know the answer. If I have battery 1 speaking...

I just signed up for the t mobile test drive. Free for a month and they send you a router. I also picked up a tello sim card for 2$. So it looks like I should be able to monitor the system for 2$ in hardware and 6$ a month in data if the sim works.

I'm looking for the cheapest possible 4g router / data only sim card combination possible but I need to figure out how much data I will require to use solar Assistant, pv pro, and whatever updates the solark may decide to pull. It's an off grid property about an hour away. I can probably do the...

I've been having trouble connecting to mine as well with the cable that came with the batteries. (Should I have received more that 1 cable? I have 5 batteries.) I was able to get one to connect but then it cycles online,offline,online,offline. I believe that was on the rs485 port. Works great...

I got coms working so I'm in closed loop now. Batteries are happy. Pulling 9k.