Recent content by shampeon

The install docs say you can run multiple a/c branch circuits, and up to 4 PV input breakers. Total amps including the gateway 10A breaker is 90A. So I think you could add the string inverter input breaker, depending on the amps, and be fine as long as you're not exceeding the breaker rating in...

Why would you think you couldn’t have multiple solar breakers in your main panel? My Enphase M250 system is on two branches, each on their own breaker into my main panel. Just label all of the breakers so everyone knows they can backfeed. You really don’t want to share breakers in your subpanel.

I use Docker to run HA, plus all the other supporting services (including grott). Makes managing all the dependencies and configs simple.

For monitoring the Growatt MIN, you can monitor it in Home Assistant using grott and homeassistant-grott.

I think you're making a mistake trying to prove wrongdoing using weight for this dispute. You bought a 100AH battery, and it's not testing anywhere near that. That's the only relevant data point. Proving energy density weight for a given chemistry to Aliexpress is way too complicated. The...

So you're now only getting 5 kWh out of like 60? That's...not great.

It’s fine to want to learn, everyone starts off without specific knowledge. But this thread is a great example of how a lot of posters on forums solicit expert advice, get it, and push ahead ignoring most of the advice. Haste makes waste, and there’s only so much you can do to stop someone...

A car is easier to both steal and fence/strip for parts, and is frequently located right on the street. A 300 pound box mounted to the side of the house and/or bolted to a concrete pad, connected to a live inverter is not exactly a smash & grab target any more than an air conditioner condenser.

Man, this thread is so obnoxious. Not informative and every party comes off diminished, some a lot more than others, but still. The post reply button isn’t obligatory!

I agree that using their hardware in a supported configuration shouldn’t trigger the license transfer clause. If anyone else is using SA on a Pi with their DC input kit, it really seems like you should fuse the input downstream of the voltage converter to avoid cooking your board.

Indeedy. I have this on a Pi Zero 2. https://github.com/gadget78/inverter-homeassistant Edit: actually I've got some fixes for HA Energy Dashboards in my fork: https://github.com/shampeon/inverter-homeassistant And on the same board this for the JBD BMS: https://github.com/tgalarneau/bms And...

If they consider moving cards to a new Pi due to a catastrophic hardware failure a license transfer, that's incredibly unfriendly terms. I see that they say, "Pi hardware is incredibly reliable" as the rationale for the 1 license transfer clause. Uh, sure, but power supplies are not nearly as...

Your Orange Pi has either a microSD card or an eMMC storage device, and that's what Solar Assistant was installed on. If it was on a microSD card, you can just pull it and install into a new Orange Pi 3 LTS. But if it was on the eMMC you'll need a new image. I would not connect any device...

You are talking about two different things. The solar input and the required battery. 2 24v batteries in parallel is still 24v with double the amps. You would need 4 12v batteries in series to make 48v. Or 2 24v batteries in series. For the solar input, you will need panels that output more...

Electrolytic capacitors have a limited service life. Good quality radial capacitors from Nichicon e.g. are rated for 20,000-30,000 hours. Sounds like you hit that limit on your inverter. Look on Mouser or DigiKey and you’ll find the service life rating for the caps. I’m surprised Aims doesn’t...