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Sorry about that... What can i say, had a interesting day that day with some people at work, it bleed over... My Bad. Anyways. agreed on USB data lines, although i assume the issue is with the PI not detecting the "Right" usb port to use as the drive... Since it was wording with SD card... I...

I have close to no idea what u are talking about? What 12 volt rail? I have 1 48vdc lipo4 battery. I stated I bought a power blocker which just disconnects the 5 volt line on the USB cable. I know the inverter was sending power to pi because if I kept that usb line plugged in. The ethernet link...

So I just wanted to take a moment and state that hooking up an cheap Facebook marketplace electric water heater is an absolute great way to us power when ur main batteries are full. I thought about a heat pump water heater. But the cost, noise, PA climate and only being able to install in a...

Ordered one of these to test. https://a.co/d/dZ3fH1U

Hi All Figured i would just post my story, as it might help someone. So i had Solar Assistant setup on an Orange PI, for a bit over a year. It was running from an SD card. Then it suddenly failed. At first i thought it was the SD card, but after lots of troubleshooting, i think the card was...

I'm thinking about trying a USB power blocker... Wondering if power from the inverter is keeping the pi alive enough that it prevents boot....

Sorry, solved half of my own problem. You have to set the password under Configuration > System > Localization Still trying to figure out why it won't boot if inverter is plugged in. Oddly, i also noticed that if i plug in a USB keyboard, it does at least start to boot, but then hangs. Thats...

Hi All I feel like i should be able to find this online, but i am coming up empty. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 setup to boot from USB SSD instead of an SD card. I also have the Pi plugged into my inverter, EG4 6000ex and two lifepower 4 batteries, also via USB. My issue is that if i have the...

Thinking about adding 4 of these to my 48 vdc system. Already have 2 eg4 lifepower batteries. I cant seem to find the brand or datasheet.... Maybe I should add a balancer? If so any suggestions? All advise appreciated. Thanks

I just setup this for a dump load water heater. Working well enough. Got 10 gallon water heater off ebay for 50 bucks. 1000 watt split phase element. All in maybe 120 130 bucks for a 2kw heat battery...

Should go without saying but you cannot deliver 50 amps. But as long as you don't draw that much your fine. I would suggest a 30 amp breaker after the inverter before the box. Of course you need to size wires correctly etc...etcc...

I used a 30 dollar changeover switch from Amazon. Switches main panel interlock from generator receptacle to solar inverter. Of course you have to be very careful not to backfeed your inverter ac output back to the inverter ac input. I actually 3d printed a lock on the changeover switch so the...

Hi All Noticed that i believe there is new firmware available on the site for the EG46000EX? Files are dated 8/3/2023 But there is no change log in the latest download... Anybody know what changed? As a comment to Signature Solar... It would be really good to come up with a standard naming...

So I have an 6000ex with 2 lifepower 4 batteries. I am using USE mode with setting 20 set to 51. Does anyone else feel 20 should be able to be set higher? And maybe with a decimal point. I would like it to switch to grid at around 20% but lately the battery is getting drained down to almost...

All So i have been using my EG4 6000EX with two non LCD Lifepower 4 Batteries in USER mode, and probably will continue to. But wanted to do some experimentation in EG4 mode. (For whatever its worth). I know the battery master must be 0000. I have read posts about some dip switches being...

Also. All i did was turn ac input off and the rest of the inverter worked fine. If it happens again I plan to connect watch power prior to power cycling.

Hi All So i have been running the EG4 6000ex for a few months. Had some setting issues and changed from EG4 mode to USE mode (see other threads), etc.... A week or so ago, i get a call from my wife, that the Inverter is making a lot of noise and erroring... I was able to drive home, but was...

What ever came of your issue?

Have already done. Have not. Its less than 100', 12 gauge. So i doubt its a problem, but will check.

Last 7 days would be very bad example. Been very cloudy. On good days, i'm loosing about 3kw of sunlight because batteries hit 100%soc. I generally have enough load that if i end the day at 100% SOC, I draw down to around 20% in the am. I wouldn't mind using Solar Assistant to switch between...

My whole goal is to use as much solar as possible and not use grid. But if there is no solar and battery drained use grid. I don't really ever want to charge batteries from grid. That just seems inefficient and un needed use of the batteries in my case. So I set it to charge as slow as possible...

Well, so i am now pretty sure the pool pump only faults on changover from SBU to SUB.... Just not every single time? In any case Settings below seem to be working. It does however seem annoying that with the min 2 amp charge from grid. Overnight or in low light. Basically the batteries slowly...

I'm 100% positive my issues don't happen on every switchover.... Wondering if it's during switchover where the load is imbalanced between the legs??? Just an un educated pondery.... in the end, no way I'm buying new hardware.... would never hear the end of it from the boss.... if I have to take...

Iv actually never been able to catch exactly when it happens. So I have plenty of SA data, but never know when the error occurred in the day... Will have to watch/test more over time. All I can say with Certainty is that I have been standing next to furnace and it turn on and I hear my ups for...

I'm wondering if putting one of these on the furnace blower would help. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Soft-start-module-soft-Volt/dp/B083RDBD4S#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

Really am intrigued to try and do that. Never have before. Could sell them custom, with custom mount angle for people who have panels at various angles. Of course I would never push serious volume 3d printing them. On a larger printer I could do 2 dozen a day maybe..

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Hi All I gotta admit, i'm pretty happy with how this turned out. As many of you i am sure experience, I have a bird that loves to crap all over 1 corner of my array.... So i designed up and 3d printed these custom holders, so i can use Electrical PVS to hold up bird spikes. They just clip on...

Hi all So i have been trying various settings to get my battery voltage to stay within acceptable limits. I think i have that pretty well understood from other posts. However.... Today my pool pump faulted with an E-08 fault, which is undervoltage.... Also heard my PC UPS click over when it...

I have disabled setting 6. Makes you wonder what the firmware considers overload....? What i see in the graph doesn't seem like an "Overload" in my highly uneducated eyes. Does make me wonder what will happen if i ever have multiple high power loads all hit at once and really do put a drain on...

Awesome Thanks!

So with those settings, this is what i see. Seems a bit excessive with the amount of Grid to battery charging. SA doesn't even capture a voltage drop to 50VDC. Debating reducing max charge current and/or going to LBU for setting 5?

I did not understand that. Thank You!

Thanks for info. If i set 10 to SNU... Wouldn't my battery always be at 100%? In my use case, i'm trying to use as much solar as i can to offset my electric bill. AKA, i want to cycle my batteries to use as much solar as possible. I explicitly don't want a battery sitting around at 100%...

I have no idea. Going to try top balancing tonight... For what its worth, tonight i don't seem to see any voltage sag... I just updated firmware to the latest... But i also turned all my load off near end of day.... Going to top balance then give it a few days of normal use and see if latest...