Most reacted posts

If you have hail that size, your PV panels are not your biggest concern.

So as a farmer's boy I know that cattle in a barn produce a tremendous amount of heat and keep it warm, so all we have to do is turn them around 180° and they will produce Cold Air instead, right

It's the Brit in me. Just both dogs reactions were amazing, they knew it was wrong and alerted the owners but were intrigued and spazzed out all at the same time.

I'll start you with a dead simple one.....increase the data rate to seconds instead of minutes ?

Look, you are not going to blow up a XW PRO 6848 with an overload, it will just giggle at you :ROFLMAO: But you can brick them easy enough with a firmware update. How will the 18K do long term, no real idea at the moment. But I will tell you this, to my electro-mechanical engineer brain, it...

I had mentioned in another thread that I thought it should be possible to reduce the power consumption in half by half wave rectifying the power to the heating element. I bought a 200A diode pack and installed it today and can confirm that the initial test says it can be done. I will continue to...

Assembled in the USA from domestic and imported components. Just like many of our automobiles, appliances, you name it etc. For batteries, I know various companies are setting up cell manufacturing in the USA and we can probably fab the case is here too, but I suspect the BMS will always be...

Nope, standard in Europe is 230v single phase for appliances. UK is all single phase but every 3rd house off the same phase, I believe some European countries do have 3 phase in the home but all appliances are single phase.

How about this ?

Look, the guy just wants to get his damn inverter running again. He don't need all this video tomfoolery

Look Mr cowboy you are not towing the line. You are going to have to be banned and replaced by your wife as she obviously has way more sense than you do. Buy the bloody batteries boy ???

I am semi self-employed, unemployed and retired 😁 Electromechanical engineer, jack of all trades, master of none. I have worked on arcade machines, TV antenna and satellite systems, AMF bowling machines, photo processing systems for Kodak, casinos, packaging and design systems, my own rental...

Cheapest one I found on Amazon at the time, there's only 2-4 manufacturers in the world and there are millions and millions of them out there. Well proven technology widely used everywhere else except the USA.

This is true when it comes to shoes and tupperware but is an absolute lie when it comes to technical "stuff" Get a grip Man :ROFLMAO:

Not really, I think the layers of onion are being peeled back.

Which is fine.....until it isn't :unsure: If your TV stops working because the GFCI/AFCI trips its a nuisance, but a warm beer is a disaster.

Bollocks now what are we gonna talk about this weekend ?

Even just a single battery will get you through those humps during cloud cover, otherwise I just don't like it. Very hard on the inverter and the equipment attached to it to be cycling on and off so much unless you're in Arizona and can guarantee bright blue skies for 8 hours at a time.

Please everyone who reads this forum, grab yourself an incandescent light bulb before they disappear forever, they are one of the most useful tools in the world.

I really cannot think of anything I can do with the extra power, on good days I have way more panels than I need and we are fully charged by midday and on bad stretches of weather I am tight on batteries, so I guess I need more batteries.

Weight wise I bound 4 cells together and added the bus bars, then dropped each set of 4 into my box and wired it all up and tested. Then I had to move it from my bench to the floor.....now I talk like a girl !!!!!

Well now Mr excitable, you come on here all guns blazing with a massive attention-grabbing heading and then later on admit you're using a piece of shit to measure stuff. And then lashing out at me just blows away any reputation that you may or may not have, so let's all stick around and get this...

Most of our conversations could probably stop right here LOL

Yeah because holding your tongue against the terminals of a 51.2 volt battery tends to make one fidget some ......

I would bet my right testicle on this.

Holy shit man that was unlucky, but I think your cells will be absolutely fine. Throw your knickers in the washer with some OxiClean and call it good 😁

I agree with everyone else about SA over the factory monitoring. But better still is getting the data into Home Assistant. I am no expert but I do have some good dials and a list of all the parameters currently available.

Depends who is involved. Pot legalization took off when the "right" people got involved, just as with alcohol back in the day.

Marketing departments only know about Facebook now, they have no idea. But they are right, everyone is wondering around with their face buried in their phonebook. I'm surprised there's not hundreds of videos of people being run over live on Facebook LOL

Solark remind me of your posh well to do friend who is a spoiled little brat, great fun to hang around with when everything is tickety boo but when the heat is on they turn into an arsehole. They are clearly concerned and rightly so to a point, but I think these two units are going to end up in...

It would be fair to point out that 3 years ago you could not have bought equipment of this quality at all at any price. Try not to think of it as what it's costing you so much as what it is saving you, maybe that helps a little. Everything has shot up in price after the sniffles, I know some...

Who on Earth is sad enough to do that? 🤣

The Docan 200A BMS works great and has pre-charge built in for $140 shipped. -$45 Docan send bus bars that seem perfectly adequate. How about this one for $22 - not 250A but fine for my 230Ah cells. 2 Pole 500V 125 Amp Isolator for Solar PV System, Thermal Magnetic Trip, DIN Rail Mount...

In Florida you are allowed to pull a permit and do your own electrical work, as long as it is your own personal residence.

Frankly Robbie you just need to shut up, you're coming across as sore. How's that for a customer service experience LOL

One failure is unlucky, two is a trend. I think it is not a well-kept secret that these inverters were crap compared to their older brothers.

Yeah Solark totally missed a great opportunity when they decided to use a sales pitch instead of a reassurance pitch. But that's what happens when you're fattening up a company to sell it off to shareholders.

Can I just show the utmost respect for the inverter not blowing up, incredible.

I do believe they are bending/breaking laws to achieve sales no matter what. I ordered a DC House 36v golf cart battery, around $500 to my door. However, it came in a plain box with no lithium ion battery warnings at all....even a rechargeable mouse I had also ordered had these warnings on. The...

May I suggest you at least lift the battery off the floor by sticking it on some bricks or some 2x wood and a layer of plastic sheeting to stop moisture wicking from below.

95 mv isn't that bad at all, put those beasts to work and don't worry about it.

Timothy :devilish: Oh crap, not him, now 420 is getting in on the act :ROFLMAO:

Max AC input 60A Max AC output 54A Recommended wire 4 AWG Therefore 60A breakers on AC in and out. All of this information IS IN THE MANUAL.

Because plastic is soft and it flowed.

Yeah be careful with the calculations, I was told 5 tons but knew that was too much for our home....they were using standard build practices not ICF with spray foam and heat pump HVAC and water heater. New calculations were 2.5 tons, just as I expected.

Actually the transformer is the most reliable part of the system, it just causes the most problems IF it fails. There is a simple way to mitigate the problem but most seem to not understand it, so I just gave up...not my shit that blows up.

The data coms between the two inverters will be via CAN or RS485, it is not an Ethernet network and that's why it does not work and will never work. Even with the correct data format that is one hell of a run, so I think the only practical way to set them up is as 2 entirely separate systems.

Anker have some very nice looking equipment, I remember them from replacement batteries for phones and laptops. Good batteries and I am not surprised they continue to sell good stuff. Also what is with all the battery cooling stuff, my batteries all run about 5° above ambient at worst, I know...

No bad blood, I just always remembered reading this on the 247 site and wondering how low the alternative options would have to go before I was tempted. Seems like me and you have the same threshold !!! I would tell your inspector that a firmware upgrade fixed it, get the signature you require...

Just use the 18k in off grid mode, then it is just a FGB battery charger and none of their business. Maybe swap it for a pair of 6000XP if they are nervous of any possible backfeed. You said you don't need permits or inspections, don't sign up for their silly games, nothing to do with them...

No go for it. It has been very sturdy electrically and the firmware (1413) is catching up nicely. I can now say I highly recommend it. It is a great product and I am sure as more people become familiar with it and the documentation improves, the support of it will get much better. I got paid...

Get a load of different fruit trees and scatter them around your property, plant a garden for your vegetables. Make sure you have access to clean water. Battery cells seem to be cheap ATM. I would avoid Bitcoin, it ain't real and you have no personal control over it.

Can we have a drunk posting mode too, it could suggest that we calm the fuck down until the next day haha

First of all to the OP I'm ever so sorry this has happened to you. I cannot see why a fuse tried to blow when your system was idling in the middle of the night, I'm still more likely to think a connection was loose and looking at your other thread I do not like the look of those fuse holders...

Maybe they can send you a Karen award ?

Okay you can send me one to test then LOL. I have a combination of LEDs and dimmers that flicker even on the solark 12K.

I got passed with the RSD switch outside only, my inspector was satisfied that hitting that switch turned off the inverter, batteries and panels. No grid connection here mind.

With one phase tied behind its back 🤣

Yeah in the UK we call those storage heaters and they run on the Economy 7 tariff, well at least they did when I was a kid 40 years ago LOL. They had a manual damper on the top that you could adjust to regulate the heat output but they invariably were extremely hot in the morning and had no heat...

Either shit or get off the pot. I will be off the pot with the new house and an electricity company is not something I will deal with in the future. You have to trust yourself and build a system that is adequate, it's not really financially worth it but it's more of a principle thing.

Lesser inverters would have blown the fuck up, the Luxpower based inverters just shrug and say try again 😁 Honestly if you don't love these things there is something wrong with you.

I'm starting to think this whole thread is just not going to work out. Way too many questions and ideals and not enough acceptance of the basic facts of having to build a house in this day and age. Building a house is bloody hard work even in a extremely friendly AHJ area and the technical...

SeaGal, I'm gonna report you for not being a Karen ?

Trade them for the 18k, signature solar have an offer.

1. Valid concern, sometimes you really have to check if a battery is 15S or 16S. 48V is an old telecom standard to keep the paperwork under 50volts. 2. 100A is a good size for many users, easier to handle etc. But yes if you need 2+ a 280/300Ah battery unit is better. 3. Yep poor programming and...

Stove, microwave and the all important to Mrs QH coffee pot ?

Do what he wants you to do and then when he leaves do what makes you feel comfortable but make sure you follow best practices. Who knows where you'll end up though LOL

Yeah, I had to pay for oil on a 2 family with a shared heating system. The renters used the windows as a thermostat. It didn't take long under my ownership for the oil heat to break and be replaced with baseboard per unit.

Okay so the RSD button does nothing except turn red when you press it, if RSD disabled checkbox is checked. If that checkbox is unchecked and you hit the RSD button, the fans wind up to full speed and then a few seconds later the inverter shuts power output down. If you put the inverter into...

Yep they are great until something goes wrong, then they turn to the tricks. I keep warning people about this with Sungold.

I don't see the point in worrying about the EG4 18k PV being unreliable, I beat an early production one hard and it was fine and I'm now running a pair of them at my new home build and I am not worried about a failure. There's quite a few people on here and I think some big installs we don't...

so is my oven, but I choose not to live in it 🥵

I am glad your utility company waits for the zero crossing point before shutting the power down or mother nature times her deadly blow to 16.6 milliseconds

Do not Google this, it is not safe for work.... or marriage 🤣

And those peaks are due to multiple AC units turning on at once so a few ESP devices set up to make sure that cannot happen via the thermostats would mitigate that. I agree with your cost and return analysis, I did the same for my new home build and it is absolutely not worth it for me to do...

If I offend anyone, you can !uck off !!!!

When he starts the gas dryer.

Really Markus? Are you sure you want to go there. I am seriously starting to think that signature solar people should just not be on this forum, they worse than the Donald with his outbursts on public media.

Look for IMO brand units.

Is this a signature solar AI chatbot?

If that is indeed the case, this is poor design and not acceptable.

There is a good reason we keep Tim around 🤣

This is exactly the setup scenario that caused someone to lose appliances with a pair of EG4 18K. They are synced up and work fine until you lose the grid and then all bets are off as to what they will do. You need to set them up correctly as soon as you read this.

Ahhhh, so you are the cause of the shortage 🤣

I understand that you don't understand. Apparently you came on the internet to ask a bunch of morons a question that they couldn't answer to your satisfaction and then told us we were stupid for not answering your question to your satisfaction. Okay have fun.

Google's told me 300,000 volts will jump 4 in, you need to claim that battery back and patent that thing. I don't know what's going on with that battery and I don't know what was going on with the support you got but none of it makes sense to me.

Yep, without SS we would be talking about Growatt 6000T fan noise, exploding grid relays and crappy MPPT's I am quite sure 90% of the traffic here is driven by SS, without Will and James (new TV show coming soon) we would all be using some Australian or EV website. Yes, cock up's have been made...

Of course you can, but I would still rather rant and rave on here to eventually get a reply than never hearing from overseas ever again.

There are new and improved firmware updates coming very soon, this may fix your problem. I am running an interim firmware that drastically improved the load voltage regulation and power.

Also you could have everything connected to solar assistant and just go into the settings and switch between the different inverters and battery types, can't monitor them all at once but it's better than nothing.

If Ian is making $5 per unit, that is his problem not yours or anyone elses. Now if one calls in to SS, CC or LUX for any assistance on said unit and it is found to be from 247, then you refer them to Ian......who would probably sort it quicker than SS anyway :ROFLMAO:

Yeah they're not selling us their good cells, they are going to commercial customers. We get the crap that dribbles out of the bottom of the pile.

Swollen grade a... No such thing end of.

I have no idea where you heard that from, it will use the power it can get from the panels. Respect the voltage and current limits and it will work perfectly fine with regular or bifacial panels, it does not know the difference and it does not matter.

Make sure you do a cold hard reboot of the inverter after all of the updates are finished, even if the inverter reboots itself, do it one more time. Preferably turn off pv, battery and incoming grid so that you get a full and total restart.

Whoever the tech is should be fired and final payment made in grounding screws. I feel bad for the good guys at SS, it must feel like they are pissing into the wind every day.

I have seen gas explosions in the UK and in Massachusetts where the pressure regulation failed in the gas supply system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrimack_Valley_gas_explosions They all look exactly like the pictures.

I think some of these manufacturers are playing fast and loose with the regulations and good technical practice. So for example the signature solar batteries are UL listed which is great. But if you change a single significant component in that build like for example changing or removing the...