Unboxing of Deye 16K Hybrid Inverter

Here's an interesting Market Research article published by MacWood, mostly the major Chinese Inverter manufacturer dominated the global market. Growatt, third on the list owns 7% of the Global Inverter market while Deye and Sol-Ark did not make it to the list. Duh ?

Nobody is disputing that.
America is not a country that is heavily invested in Home Solar because electricity is so dam cheap in America compared to most other countries.
This is due to an abundance of NG, Oil and Coal in the USA. China and many other countries have to depend heavily on imports so their fuel prices are much higher, so this makes Solar a much more attractive option.

Any new update?

How is the inverter working?

Could be an interesting way of powering your entire house, even if not to code. Two of these Deye 16k's in parallel would have 200amps of passthrough capability just like the Solark, but with more inverting power / solar capability.

ImAnIdiotPleaseBePatient said:

Could be an interesting way of powering your entire house, even if not to code. Two of these Deye 16k's in parallel would have 200amps of passthrough capability just like the Solark, but with more inverting power / solar capability.

Click to expand...

I power my entire house with my single Deye 16 kW. Been online for 3 months. My monthly billing was 1100 kWh.

pilotdrh said:

I power my entire house with my single Deye 16 kW. Been online for 3 months. My monthly billing was 1100 kWh.

Click to expand...

Yes, many will only need one. I guess I should have said "can power your main panel in a 200amp serviced home with 200 amps" ?

pilotdrh said:

I power my entire house with my single Deye 16 kW. Been online for 3 months. My monthly billing was 1100 kWh.

Click to expand...

Do you have pictures of the install

van-traveler86 said:

Do you have pictures of the install

Click to expand...

He is in the Philippines using Single phase 230V which is what the Deye is made for.

My apologies for able to responds to request for update posting. Been working with Deye and Felicity to have the BMS communicating with the 16K problem resolved. Despite suggestion from the vendors, Felicity Battery BMS update to Firmware V413 and Deye 16K Firmware HMI : C35D Main : 0914-1726 they still refused to "talk". After a suggestion from Felicity support after a couple a day of silence , this past Tuesday; was able to established communications between the Felicity BMS and the 16K. The issues were pretty much caused by Deye in their Firmware of the 16K. The Felicity BMS supports the RS-485 ModBus protocol, was initially wired to the default ModBus RS-485 port just like the Deye 8K (2nd row middle RJ45 port). With the new Deye 16K Firmware, the Battery CANBus port (2nd row right RJ45 port) now supports both the ModBus and CANBus BMS communications. Move the RJ45 from the ModBus to the CANBus, immediately I see the 16K Lit BMS screen starting to populate the LCD display. I was ecstatic to see the two communicating.

The MODBus Rs-485 port (does not work!)


The Battery CANBus port now supports both MODBus and CANBus protocol on the same port without any 16K Firmware menu setting.

Felicity BMS start communicating with the 16K. Battery info start populating the LCD screen.


BMS Summary page.


Detail BMS status of the entire Battery bank of 7 were updated. In the new 16K Firmware, Deye new code started the address of at 00 instead of 01 and hence the 1st row display were empty and instead start from address 2. I've requested Felicity to patch the Firmware to change the starting address to match Deye's. Hopefully, they will release an updated BMS Firmware soon to address the anomaly.

AC Gird input simulated via the LOAD (Backup Critical LOAD) port of 2*Parallel Deye 8K. Using excess PV energy to charged the 16K Attached 7*Felicity battery 15kW battery from 40% to 100% SOC. A total of 75kW of charges were spread over a couple of days.

Misterbubbercat, I have to confess: I'm still confused about your transformer modification. Could you provide (when you have time of course) a wiring diagram that explains what exactly you did?

koppted said:

Misterbubbercat, I have to confess: I'm still confused about your transformer modification. Could you provide (when you have time of course) a wiring diagram that explains what exactly you did?

Click to expand...

Will do, will be posting a follow up on the options for the Neutral on the 16K. Stay tune !

Try this proud owner of a Sol-Ark 15K and see if you'll get a F34 error shutdown ???

House LOAD, Level 2 EV charging at full 48A and Electric cloth dryer sucking up almost 14kW.


Deye 16K - Continuous AC Power from UPS (Batteries) 16kW (16,000W) at 1/3 the price of a Sol-Ark 15K


Sol-Ark 15K - Continuous AC Power from UPS (Batteries) 12kW (12,000W)

Folks!!!!!
Just received it today.
This thing is very impressive, high quality built!!!
Can't wait to power it up. But I have to go to LA this weekend.
Will keep you guys posted.

misterbubbacat said:

Try this proud owner of a Sol-Ark 15K and see if you'll get a F34 error shutdown ???

House LOAD, Level 2 EV charging at full 48A and Electric cloth dryer sucking up almost 14kW.
View attachment 132970

Deye 16K - Continuous AC Power from UPS (Batteries) 16kW (16,000W) at 1/3 the price of a Sol-Ark 15K
View attachment 132971

Sol-Ark 15K - Continuous AC Power from UPS (Batteries) 12kW (12,000W)
View attachment 132968

Click to expand...

What is the maximum battery voltage it will allow, I can't find this either in the Manual or the datasheet. I have some LiFeP04 and LTO batteries that have max charge at 64V. Will this unit allow for that?

Ed Mek said:

Folks!!!!!
Just received it today.
This thing is very impressive, high quality built!!!
Can't wait to power it up. But I have to go to LA this weekend.
Will keep you guys posted.

View attachment 133108

Click to expand...

Do you plan on creating or buying the AST 19200T-US ? ?

Ed Mek said:

Folks!!!!!
Just received it today.
This thing is very impressive, high quality built!!!
Can't wait to power it up. But I have to go to LA this weekend.
Will keep you guys posted.

View attachment 133108

Click to expand...

Congrats!. Just curious, it's a brand new inverter, why do you need to crack open the chassis

That's the HMI mounted on the front upper panel with the panel laying upside down.

koppted said:

What is the maximum battery voltage it will allow, I can't find this either in the Manual or the datasheet. I have some LiFeP04 and LTO batteries that have max charge at 64V. Will this unit allow for that?

Click to expand...

You can't mix and match different type of battery. It support low voltage <= 60V, you'll need the 30K and up to support HV (High Voltage) batteries.

koppted said:

Do you plan on creating or buying the AST 19200T-US ? ?

Click to expand...

BTW, latest model mod will now support 125A*240V ~ 30KW, is on custom order basis ! ???