the.shining

Solark 15k. Crossing my fingers that the rumors are true...that it just works out the box. $6499, no sales tax or s/h. The extra...

well.... here's the post mortem the eg4 18k was able to achieve the desired state but only at the expense of reintroducing the 50-100...

well, well, well. eg4 fumbled it at the 1 yard line and managed to recover the ball in the endzone...well played, eg4, well played...

Yes, going with solark 15k ($6300 no tax/no s&h) , spoke with their tech support and they claim my desired state is their out of the box...

Eg4 glitches. Period. I am returning because it's a faulty product. Not even eg4 or sig solar knows how to make the machine do what...

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I'd give them a few months if I had an honest back and forth conversation with them. But i'm getting denial vibes and getting...

Yes, with batteries being so expensive, every care must be taken to preserve the life. Charge/discharge rate matter which is why being...

Yep. The charge last is the one I use so that loads are powered in the morning first with any excess going to battery to my charge limit...

yup, peak shaving is a decent size mkt but it pales to the market of households with no 1:1 net metering agreement who must be extremely...

Yes, when you have lucrative sell-back agreements, it leaves you far more options in capitlizing on ROI. For the vast majority who...

The software is already over-engineered to accomodate 50 marginal use cases (including peak shaving)...my scenario is far more basic and...

When these lucrative 1:1 metering arrangements run out, you'll be seeing things my way quickly :) We don't have them in the SouthEast...

Yes, you acknowledge that this is not the desired scenario. The problem with your setup is that its running a FIXED schedule. The...

Here's another aspect of how the 18k pv doesn't optimize for ROI. I should have 10kw coming from panels at 12:35pm EST, but I'm only...

You are on a design that favors backup power over ROI. This is common amongst off-grid architectures and households with unstabile...

the goal is for the battery to discharge completely overnight...so that the battery can be re-filled the following day. of course if...

Achieving goals 1, 2, and 3 is possible. However, for goal 4, it seems that the Battery Backup logic might be conflicting with the Peak...

Well, Jared@EG4 gave it a good shot, got imaginative with trying to leverage Peak Shaving as a means of controlling AC GRID's ability to...

My User/Station was set to GMT-5 with daylight savings time on which gave me the right time....I set to GMT-4 wiht daylight savings time...