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Yes, I've been using it as such for just over 7 months now. But don't expect it to be zero export 100%. You will get spill over depending on your loads. It will be around .1 kWh a day average in my usage. Some service providers might have an issue even with this small amount. This is typical...

Congrats Rakitejada! I'm getting close to 17,000 kWh here. System has been running with no issues for a long time.

No generator hooked up at this time.

Just around 3 1/2 months here. Over 6Mwh solar and almost 7Mwh thru the inverter.

There might be a setting to restrict it from doing that, I just don't know of it from my usage as I am trying to have it off-set as much of my grid usage as possible. My solar typically is enough to have my batteries fully recharged from any overnight usage as well but I also have a little more...

It will back feed from your batteries as well as PV. It will primarily use PV to cover but it will off-set with battery if not enough PV. (At least in how I have my settings. I don't know if there are settings to restrict it from using battery.) I have my major loads (AC, Stove, Hot Water) in...

Yes, if you put the CTs between the meter and the main panel with the grid on the 18kPV being fed from a breaker on your main panel, it will back-feed your main panel if there is enough coming in from PV (or from the batteries) after covering the loads in the critical loads panel. This is of...

Great to hear you have positive results! 0E:0E definitely has been working well for me for awhile now. At most I have seen 0.1kWh in a day but most days it has been 0. The days I see the 0.1 are typically ones which there are some big swings either in load or my solar, which are probably...

Try having them put you on firmware 0E:0E. That's the version I have found to run best when it comes to minimal export to grid. For my system I have seen minimal (less than 0.2 kwh) export each day and on many days it is zero. The only time I see export is when there is a large load swing or...

@EG4_Ty should be able to help as he did it for me. But any SS or LP support person should also as well.

From my personal experience (running over 3 MWh thru my system so far), the 0E:0E firmware version works best for those who need grid assist (or to back-feed a main panel) with as close to zero export as possible. I typically see 0 or at most 0.1KWh export over the course of a day. Version 10...

Just a heads-up for those who are running their system as per the setup on page 28 of the manual (Partial home backup with backfed breaker), the new unreleased firmware no longer backfeeds the breaker to the main load panel if in zero export mode. I had them update my system to this to try to...

Wow this is getting confusing. Are the arrows supposed to be towards the grid or towards the inverter? rmacgurn has them towards the inverter but with the CT direction reversed checked meaning that it should be towards the grid but the diagram from Markus (from the manual) shows them towards...

Any changelog?

How did you add the LuxPower to HA as a device? I don't see it in the list on my system.

So this new firmware has fixed the fast export? @Markus_SignatureSolar I don't see it on the 18kPV app yet.

I'm guessing this probably wouldn't work for those of us who are back-feeding the main panel to power those breakers (which we don't have in our critical load panel and have the CTs between the meter and the main panel). To ensure zero export in that type of setup there probably needs to be some...

Definitely agree with Rusty as well. If SA added in the ability to change some of the settings (like it can do with the 6500), I would only use SA over the EG4 app. EG4 monitoring, for me, doesn't even update regularly unless I force it to update and at times I have to do it 2 or 3 times for...

Mine has been running for about a month so far. Pushed over a MWh in solar and load thru it so far. I'm running in hybrid (connected to the grid) with zero export. Only issue I still have is it shows as exporting around 0.1kwh per day on both solar assistant and the EG4 monitoring app. On-grid...

That's not a good setup...sounds pretty risky. Definitely not going to test that out. (I would have to rewire my system to even try that but I'm not sure SS/EG4 will warranty it if the system fried due to having it setup like that and something going wrong.) Most likely will throw an error but I...

I'm going to be testing this on my system this weekend so unless someone else has already tested this, I should have an answer for you in another day or two. My system runs both a critical loads panel via the load connection with a main panel (with some larger loads) connected via the grid...

In the video Will mentioned he updated the firmware multiple times. How do we update the firmware? I don't see it on the monitoring app or in the configurations on the unit screen. Also is there somewhere where the new firmware and changelogs can be found so we know if we are running the current...

It's funny how he mentions how quiet the unit is when it is running under normal loads. I can relate with my unit. Coming from running 2 6500 units for the last 7 months, it still gets me how quiet it is in the garage (where my unit is installed) every time I go in there. I still find myself...

Has anyone tested out the smart load feature yet? I'm planning on playing around with that this weekend and seeing if I can run an old bitcoin miner I have laying around to utilize extra solar once my batteries are maxed out.

I haven't seen it mentioned on here already but I was able to also get Solar Assistant working with the 18kPV. It was pretty easy and doesn't require any physical connections to the unit. I find that Solar Assistant provides better monitoring over the EG4 app as Solar assistant updates at a much...

I followed the directions in the manual in which the arrows point towards the inverter (away from the meter to the grid). They seem to be pointing the right way as I would think I would be seeing the export numbers would be much higher if not. The import from the grid (based on the monitoring)...

I'm working with James to hopefully troubleshoot this as I'm also concerned with potentially triggering my utility. Hopefully it is just something with my setup and can be resolved quickly.

Chris, this is how I have my unit setup. (Operating for just 1 full day so far.) If there is sufficient PV, it will power the loads in both panels and then send excess to the batteries. At least that is how it has been working for the past 24 hours with my system the way I have configured it. I...

I got my unit up and running this morning after taking down my 2xEG4 6500s and also cleaning up the wiring mess to look better. I have it running similar to my "off grid" setup with a critical loads panel with all of my 120v plus a few 240v breakers and all of my large 240v (electric dryer...

Then I must be having a really big day because there are multiple cardboard boxes on my pallet. :)

Thanks Will for getting this back on topic. Many of us are curious about the product itself and the off-topic bickering was becoming tiresome. As far as testing, if you can, please test the ability for it to feed back to a main panel (non-critical load) with zero-export to the grid. That's one...