I know everyone seems to be getting one of these and they love them. Seems like an excellent offgrid aka SBU aka not using the grid inverters.
Its pretty. Looks cool and all.
But for my purposes so far it SUCKS.
I needed a true hybrid inverter like my TP6048 that used the grid and then could be manually switched to battery use on a schedule or switch in the advent of a power outage. This inverter will do that except the stupid thing eats batteries while running on pv or the grid.
That's right folks it uses the batteries for the idle consumption while running on the grid or pv. WTF.
It has no clue what float means and is constantly either charging or discharging the batteries non stop 24hrs a day.
I have tried everything under the sun to stop it from doing this. Ive got a few emails into sungold right now to see if there is a firmware update or something to fix this. If not this thing is going back and I will get another tp6048 to run in parallel with the one I have already because it works like its supposed to.
If someone wants to make a suggestion on how to get it to actually go to float and quit discharging the batteries for no reason I would love to hear about it. I just don't know of anything else to try. I have tried UTI mode and SOL mode both with about every setting tweaked under each. Again it works perfectly other than it won't quit draining the batteries all the time when its not supposed to be running on the battery at all. Disconnecting the battery doesn't seem to bother it so I guess when there isn't a battery to torture it goes and gets its idle consumption from the grid like it is supposed to do in the first place.
Its pretty. Looks cool and all.
But for my purposes so far it SUCKS.
I needed a true hybrid inverter like my TP6048 that used the grid and then could be manually switched to battery use on a schedule or switch in the advent of a power outage. This inverter will do that except the stupid thing eats batteries while running on pv or the grid.
That's right folks it uses the batteries for the idle consumption while running on the grid or pv. WTF.
It has no clue what float means and is constantly either charging or discharging the batteries non stop 24hrs a day.
I have tried everything under the sun to stop it from doing this. Ive got a few emails into sungold right now to see if there is a firmware update or something to fix this. If not this thing is going back and I will get another tp6048 to run in parallel with the one I have already because it works like its supposed to.
If someone wants to make a suggestion on how to get it to actually go to float and quit discharging the batteries for no reason I would love to hear about it. I just don't know of anything else to try. I have tried UTI mode and SOL mode both with about every setting tweaked under each. Again it works perfectly other than it won't quit draining the batteries all the time when its not supposed to be running on the battery at all. Disconnecting the battery doesn't seem to bother it so I guess when there isn't a battery to torture it goes and gets its idle consumption from the grid like it is supposed to do in the first place.
