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EG4 6500EX and EG4 Lifepower4 intermittent 61 error

Hi there,
Just thought i'd add, same issue here.
Waiting for a fix as well playing with the network addresses. I have 3 batteries, I have set mine starting with first battery connected with the inverter:
on on on off
on on on on
on on on off / on on off off worked pretty darn good here too
I realize this is a duplicate address, I have tried this a million ways and with this setting i still get alarms but this setting cuts the alarms down by what is at this setup, a very sizable amount. The alarms i do get are short duration and always rectify themselves. Haven't had any issues and thought i would share that. The communication issue to the batteries has been a real bummer. I could tell by the video that they hadnt really thought it thru when i realized i would need at 2 dollar splitter to make 2 weeks of work and 8k seem operational. Of course i made my own split cable but thats well besides the point. I like your products, to the over worked EG4 PR man. Your working 2 hard and your products 2 well built to fall flat on your faces here. One would think the easiest thing in the EG4 world would be the communication between an EG4 battery and an EG4 inverter. 240v setup inverters are already cabled together to communicate so why in the world are we connecting to both inverters. Seems confused from the jump.
 
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I am now using USE setting on both inverters, ditched the comm cable.
 
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How are you determining the 80% SOC ?
I have the same setup , and my units are both in USE . I have set the batt charge parameters for both inverters to the specs provided by the battery literature. The comm cable is disconnected .
My batteries seem to charge completely. The SOC lights on the Batts are all fully lit , the batt voltage is around 54. 2 after the chargers have shut off.
I think the battery settings on the master unit will dictate what the slave unit does.
If the master is in eg4 batt mode it will be looking for that comm and use the pre defined batt settings.
I was having all the same issues as everyone else till I set them both to USE.
 
I got a new cable and get the error randomly. In morning, afternoon or evening. Error will show for a few minutes, maybe 10 mins, then the error stops for hours then may start again. Very odd...
 
SouthTexasSolar said:
I got a new cable and get the error randomly. In morning, afternoon or evening. Error will show for a few minutes, maybe 10 mins, then the error stops for hours then may start again. Very odd...
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It's a known widespread issue. Stop trying to fix it and set battery to USE mode . There is no timeline for a resolution
 
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joshuao said:
I already have my bus bar flipped but still get error 61. It does sound though like some of these problems are related to batteries not evenly charged. I also have a growatt inverter and it did not have these issues (with the same battery pack)
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Which Growatt inverter? I get a similar issue as OP with my Growatts with a different battery, but am planning on switching to the EG4s soon and don’t want the same issue.
 
I saw a video on SS saying the error is fixed using their new cable is this true?
 
robby said:
I saw a video on SS saying the error is fixed using their new cable is this true?
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Maybe not. I just got a random Fault 61 on my 2P1 at 81% SOC. I will do some checking, but my system has only been running for 7 days (on one solar string) and this is the first fault. Note: This is the first day that I've had two solar strings...one per inverter.
 
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Nad said:
Are there any firmware flash overheating issues we need to take precautions against?
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Ok, finally got around to upgrading the firmware Richard linked to above. Upgrade process not difficult once you have the laptop tunnjnv the software and you know your USB port number. It’s all in the README file. When I clicked upgrade, the inverter screen displays UPG YES as best it can on the left side. It does go offline so prepare for about a 15 minute offline process. Everything seems normal so far. ;). Watching it like a hawk. No overheating issues to deal with, thankfully.

Will post an update later tonight.
 
5275K_Dude said:
Ok, finally got around to upgrading the firmware Richard linked to above. Upgrade process not difficult once you have the laptop tunnjnv the software and you know your USB port number. It’s all in the README file. When I clicked upgrade, the inverter screen displays UPG YES as best it can on the left side. It does go offline so prepare for about a 15 minute offline process. Everything seems normal so far. ;). Watching it like a hawk. No overheating issues to deal with, thankfully.

Will post an update later tonight.
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And I don’t need to wait for tonight. The error code 61 is back. I’ll be going back to SS with this new info. I am using the original pinned out cable. Pretty sure they’ll send me a new one.
 
5275K_Dude said:
And I don’t need to wait for tonight. The error code 61 is back. I’ll be going back to SS with this new info. I am using the original pinned out cable. Pretty sure they’ll send me a new one.
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How many batteries do you have?
 
Zapper77 said:
How many batteries do you have?
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Two, at the moment. In the proper daisy chain and dip switches per the docs. Like everyone else, the batteries start out just fine. Blinking battery on the display indicating proper battery communications. Then after a while, 61. I’ll do some more later today. I even restarted the whole system after the firmware update.
 
5275K_Dude said:
Two, at the moment. In the proper daisy chain and dip switches per the docs. Like everyone else, the batteries start out just fine. Blinking battery on the display indicating proper battery communications. Then after a while, 61. I’ll do some more later today. I even restarted the whole system after the firmware update.
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I have the exact same issue. With 6 batteries and two 6.5k inverters. The 61 fault is mostly random but occurs more frequently when SOC is 90+.
 
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