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The only way that I have found to force grid is to set the "on grid end of discharge" voltage higher than the battery. To set it back to battery, you need to set it 3v lower than the battery is at that moment. After applying the -3v, you can move it where you want,

I got these from 18650 battery store so I think I'm fine

Yeah this is worse than mine. I probably would still use them but that is just me. What is 18650 doing about it? It would be interesting if you updated here.

My quick google search says 4.3 megawatts per year. Translating to 33-40% increase in electricity usage if everyone had an EV. The elephant in the room is the fact that there are almost twice as many cars in the USA as there are houses. Interesting point about solar and power backup systems...

Well that sounds like fun!

nice!

Perhaps this would be an excellent avenue to discuss further in this thread? I would love to hear everything I can on this.

Welcome to the forum!

I dont think mine has a blue bluetooth light either. I think its the red light that is usually constant blinks just a couple times when blue tooth is connecting.

What did I miss? Did we ever get to the "Vertical position off roofs" part? I am dying to know what that is about!

Thats called a Hybrid Inverter not a strictly off grid inverter.

Dont you just love that?

Thank you for this! very interesting.

That is what I figured. Thank you!

Hi, yeah not very intuitive... Did you figure this out? I never messed with SOC percentage cutoffs so I dont know for sure but in my case It was necessary for me to hit EMPTY on discharge control to stop the grid bypass. I later found out some tricks besides that. I use user battery settings...

That is awesome! I love it!

This more pertains to lithium cobalt chemistries. Lifepo4 is lithium iron phosphate. Lifepo4 is pretty remarkable for solar. Its TOTALLY different than any other battery from my experience.

I was surprised to find this out myself about no "modes" on the 6000xp

I would ground the combiner box. I got mine from watts247 and it has a lightning arrestor in it. Not sure if yours does but grounding it is necessary for the arrestor. I wish I could help you more.

Is this a widespread thing? this makes me sick.

But why did my moded Victron smart shunt as a BMS do the exact same thing at 100%? The ONLY things shared between the 2 setups would be the EG4 6000xp and the Pylontec protocol .

I have a very interesting discovery to share. So I have a 6000xp, connected to a Victron smart shunt via the can converter esp32 board discussed in this thread. I have Solar Assistant reading from the 6000xp. It all has been working very well overall. I have 2 battery banks in parallel, one 400...

True, but I would think that would be a very small probability without an outside event. I have been using lithium batteries for a long time, reclaimed good cells in dead laptop packs, wired 14s12P lithium ion packs, I had 3 of these packs at the same time for a while. That makes 504 little...

Yes, I see that now. Im just still wondering what happens when a parallel set of 6000xp has grid only on one while battery and voltage falls below on battery EOD.

Fuse close to the battery might be a good idea. Class T

Can we think this thru just a little bit? The fuse blew, ok. Did it blow in a half asked way that was unsafe or did it work as intended? If it blew as normal, and if an arc formed, it would vaporize the remaining metal and go out in short order.

Oh cool! Nice that that was that easy.

This is a profound statement that everyone should hear. Good job on the clarity of that!

I never found the actual cause of my problem. I just stopped it from feeding in by removing that line on the ground

agreed 🤪

No!!?! How can I run doom?!?! OMG

I think this absolutely applies to Lithium cobalt. In a direct short event. I have seen other pictures of Lifepo4 diy batteries go off and the adjacent cells were still very much unburden. The cell just roasted for a couple hours.

Yup, I use a 30 amp breaker and charge at 70 battery amps all the time. Again, the amps in ALL of the 6000xp settings pertains to the battery amps. The reason I only do 70 is to leave room for the loads that may be running.. For instance if you battery charge at 4080 watts and have a 2500 watt...

What symptom did you notice with this? I have renogy panels and I am very curious about this.

oops

sorry... ha settings

I have seen what you are talking about. That could be mobile version vs standard. It is confusing.

Thats why I just ploped mine in there held by the wires, Laying diagonal for full airflow. :)

Good news! and thanks for testing this!

100% only means one cell in each battery hit the charged voltage. If you multiply that by 6,that could be your problem. i imagine once one battery hits 100% charging stops for all of them. You simply found the battery with the worst balance problem.

Thanks for your insight. So that does answer most of one of the questions. An electric dryer that is over 6000 watts would default to pass through?

Yes, I read that pile and started gagging. I sit here in my 95 year old house and and am amazed every time I open a wall.

That is how I did it. Last 18 was tough tho!

well if you are getting junk data, there isnt much to go on. Set you on grid EOD voltage to 46. It should definitely start using battery then.

Good idea. I didnt think of that. I only have 100 amp service tho lol Probably ok if I run everything thru the 2 6000xps

yes, this

Any idea if this is true from square d panels in the 70's?

Wasnt it only used because WW2 needed all the copper and drove copper prices sky high?

I distinctly remember this being a feature request. I was not surprised by it when I updated my firmware. What I can say for sure is that mine operates the same, with zero problems.

YES, I saw that last week. Seems to me just a doubled up/ side to side 280k. Interesting, but what about 16 of those? How can you move that? Is any company like Seplos/ EEl going to make a box for a 500Lb battery?? Ha, it seems kinda excessive.