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I ordered some panels from Signature Solar back on black friday in November. 20 panels hyundai 305w to replace some used 250w panels. It did not show backordered on their web site at the time I ordered. The hyundai 300w panels showed out of stock a few days later I called to make an appointment...

All my inverters and batteries are in a workshop about 100 ft from the house. I have an ethernet switch in that building and wifi is pretty reliable. looking for a solution that would trigger an alarm in my house if the smoke detector activates. in the workshop the alarms in my house are simple...

Over the years I have heard many stories from people complaining about their smart meters. everything from my bill went way up, my data is wrong, and the radio waves will kill you. After seeing this data, I have to wonder about how these meters can come up with some of this data On Oct 5 at...

I am using home assistant to monitor my 3 solar systems for my off grid system I use Solar Assistant and also mqtt the data to HA for my antique SMA sunnyboy gridtied system I use emporia vue and its HA integration, nothing else avbl for my new Growatt 7.6 tl-xh I am now also using emporia vue...

I have 3 vue systems on separate panels all showing zeros, web app just spinning with no info being a sunday can not contact them

Now that my grid is restored after 34 days due to the meter & building it was on burning down due to lightening, I am trying to return one of my grid tie systems to operation. its an SMA 6.0 us 41 inverter, and it will not power up, no lights, nothing. pretty sure it is fried. anyway looks like...

I am replacing an old GE 125 amp load center with a new QO square D main breaker 200 amp panel I have a fused disconnect between the meter and this new panel, so that makes the new panel a sub panel with a 4 wire feed and no bonding at this panel. neutral and grounds will be separate in this...

my meter was on an outbuilding that burned down in lightning storm. also had a generator transfer 200a switch. this was a 320a meter with 2 outputs, one output 200a thru trans switch to the main house 150 ft away, and the other output to a panel for the building that burned. Utility company...

since I lost my grid feed, I will soon need to use a generator to help charge batteries and cover loads. my inverters are dual LV6548 and my gen is a Firman 7500w dual fuel will this work ok ? probably has an ugly sine wave not like an inverter gen

trying to plan how to restore grid service after building with the meter burned down from lightning. the burned building/meter was about 200 ft from the transformer on street and about 150 ft from my house where the main panel is located. they suggested digging up the elec co wire/conduit...

As I posted about yesterday, when the lightning hit and burned down my guest cabin, it also seems to have fried some other equip located in different building where I keep my solar equipment. I know 1 of my poe ethernet switches that allow comms from solar assistant and some poe camera to a...

last night huge thunderstorm and a GIANT strike landed right near my house. immediately lost the ethernet switch in the workshop which comms solar assistant and some cameras with the modem in my house 100 ft away, so no solar assistant data avbl. after the strike the rain was epic couple hours...

Ive got a closet with a raspberry for home assistant and a qnap nas as well as a desktop that runs 2 monitors/tv for blue iris cameras and 1 is the monitor for home assistant my inverters are MPP LV6548 every now and then when I switch solar assistant to change from SBU to/from utility first...

I have not received the usual notice to conserve, but I see on ercots web site that they look closer to edge than I have ever seen them. They like to have 6000 MW extra. tonight after sunset they are no where close glad my batteries are full and my backup gen has propane currently 105 F with...

the AH capacity of my 6 eg4 lifepower batts should be 600 AH total. SA is showing 96 AH and it is making the percent charge/discharge calculation go crazy in the first picture you can see that it thinks a 6233 watt charge is providing 119 percent per hour instead of about 19 percent/hour in the...

I have dual MPP LV6548 inverters and the 2p1 unit went into a F02 overheat shutdown, due to clogged air flow vent it has now cooled below 90F as shown in solar assistant but the buzzer and fault F02 code are still present. when the inverter cools some more will it reset automaticaly or will I...

I have been having problems with my eg4 lifepower4 batts in recent days. my inverters are LV6548 and I use Solar Assistant/ the first problem that developed was Solar Assistant missing the switch from SBU to SUB after the SOC dropped below the set value of 35 pct this happened for last few days...

I have a dual MPP LV6548 system with 6 eg4 batts, using Solar Assistant, and for the last 2 days it has failed to auto switch from SBU to SUB at the set parameter, which was 30 percent. I woke up both days to find the batts at about 18 pct I updated to latest SA software and rebooted after the...

the breaker that feeds my off grid main panel from the 2 inverters is 60a and has tripped a few times and feels warm/hot to touch my system is dual MPP LV6548 inverters with 6 eg4 batts on these hot days I was trying to run 2 mini splits that use 240v and was pulling up to 6000w total to the...

yesterday the main breaker from my off grid system overloaded and tripped. This shut down power to my router which solar assistant and home assistant PIs use. the SA pi never lost power as its connected to the battery bank the HA pi did lose power Now I am no longer getting mqtt from SA to HA I...

inverter is going intermintant. display is showing "disturbance IMAX" manual talks about overcurrent on AC side, very vague anyone familiar with this error ?

my first solar system from 11 years ago is a 20 year lease, back when some killer deals still existed/ its 6.44 kw with SMA6.0 inverter I paid a total of $3800 one time charge and no paying them for the power produced and they maintain and insure the system, and they got the tax benefits no...

each of my 2 lv6548 inverters has its own 6kw array using 6s2p setup, 24 x 250w panels. so I am combining 2 rows of 6 panels using a Y connector for each mppt I noticed that inverter 2 has a pv power 1 reading that is about 1/2 of all the other strings. I bought a clamp type multimeter and...

I am about to do the trenching to bury all my cables, so need to get this straight I read @FilterGuy white paper on grounding for arrays (pt3) and am still confused. my setup is as follows 2 ground mount offgrid arrays 6kw each using ironridge racks,weebs, on top of 3" metal piping, 2 strings...

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-power-companies-roll-out-fixed-rate-bill-proposal/ Cant say Im surprised. full on commies, whats next ?

well I finally took a minute to look at chatgpt and try to see if it pertained at all to solar systems, asked a few basic questions and got the following answers anyone know of any add on type apps that could do electrical diagrams ? something like that could put some of the companies selling...

I just got today my lowest electric bill since my off grid system was installed last May. $18.51 for a 32 day month, and that includes a $5 fixed fee. so we used $13.51 of juice. previous best was last October $22.61 I already had a grid tie 11kw system, and added a 12kw off grid with 30kwh...

I have 6 eg4 batts in the standard rack sold by SS. They are in my workshop which is on concrete blocks so wind can go under the building. i thought I would solve a problem and put a 3/4 piece of foam insulation on the floor below the bottom battery. it didnt seem to help that much so then I...

A solar farm in Texas is planning to lay its panels on the ground to save money on racks. very strange, but no shading issues and uses less land. no way to adjust angle here is link to the news article https://www.yahoo.com/news/100mw-solar-farm-texas-mount-180100247.html

I am a complete noobie with home assistant, but here is my first attempt at creating a dashboard to monitor my system. this was needed because all 3 systems have different types of data sources, web sites, etc OFF GRID system is 12kw with 2 LV6548 inverters and 6 eg4 batteries. It uses Solar...

I have an old broken sma 5000 inverter that must weigh over 100 lbs, must be the old transformer that weighs so much ? do you think a scrapper would want to pick it up for free ? I just need it gone as I replaced it

can I safely disconnect the mc4 wires from an array during sunlight if I turn off the breaker supplying AC to the gridtie inverter ? so no resulting arcing/spark

I have both grid tie (11 kw) and off grid (12 kw) with 30 kwh batteries systems my whole house, minus water heater, and some outbuildings are off grid the grid tie system is already sending more power to grid than we are using, so what I would like to do is to be able to switch 1 of the...

I have been using a bank of 6 eg4 lifepower batts for about 50 days now and have had the equalization settings on the lv6548 inverters in the default setting which is disabled for all equalization. the charging for today is done and the SOC s are varied from 93.4 up to 100.4 percent SOC across...

I am trying to document my system so my wife will have the info should I croak, as sadly I can not preserve my brain, rather than just give a link to the help guide on solar assistant, I was hoping to print a "manual" anyone know if a manual is avbl ?