dewhite04
New Member
Hi All,
I searched but did not find an answer. I think this should be pretty simple. I recently commissioned a setup with (2) 6000xp inverters and (2) Indoor Power Pro batteries. Per the manual, I connected parallel cables from/to each inverter in opposing ports and left the pair of dip switches next to the RJ45 section in the up position on both units (being they are the first and last inverters in the array). The batteries are correctly ID'd with dipswitch No. 1 up on the primary and only DIP 2 up on the subordinate unit and a comm. cable running from battery comm. on one battery comm. on the other. There is only one comm. cable running from the primary inverter's "Batt Comm" port to the "CAN" port on the primary battery. The inverters report good communication with the batteries, see their capacity, report SoC, etc.
Everything works fine. However, I have two questions:
1. When I look in the monitoring software, the inverter that is identified as "primary" matches to the S/N of the 2nd inverter, the one that does not have the battery comm. cable connected to the primary battery? Should I be flipping the two DIP switches on the subordinate inverter into the down position, or should I be changing something in the settings to force the other inverter to be the primary?
2. I recently updated the firmware on the inverters while online - no issue. I thought I had read it was possible to update battery firmware through software on the inverters, but I haven't found any way to do that yet? I did try to do a manual firmware update through an RS232 USB to console cable before the batteries were ID'd, and wired to each other to communicate. That failed with a message like: "Initialization Failed, Please Check BMS Connection; Clear Flash Failed, Please Update Again."
I searched but did not find an answer. I think this should be pretty simple. I recently commissioned a setup with (2) 6000xp inverters and (2) Indoor Power Pro batteries. Per the manual, I connected parallel cables from/to each inverter in opposing ports and left the pair of dip switches next to the RJ45 section in the up position on both units (being they are the first and last inverters in the array). The batteries are correctly ID'd with dipswitch No. 1 up on the primary and only DIP 2 up on the subordinate unit and a comm. cable running from battery comm. on one battery comm. on the other. There is only one comm. cable running from the primary inverter's "Batt Comm" port to the "CAN" port on the primary battery. The inverters report good communication with the batteries, see their capacity, report SoC, etc.
Everything works fine. However, I have two questions:
1. When I look in the monitoring software, the inverter that is identified as "primary" matches to the S/N of the 2nd inverter, the one that does not have the battery comm. cable connected to the primary battery? Should I be flipping the two DIP switches on the subordinate inverter into the down position, or should I be changing something in the settings to force the other inverter to be the primary?
2. I recently updated the firmware on the inverters while online - no issue. I thought I had read it was possible to update battery firmware through software on the inverters, but I haven't found any way to do that yet? I did try to do a manual firmware update through an RS232 USB to console cable before the batteries were ID'd, and wired to each other to communicate. That failed with a message like: "Initialization Failed, Please Check BMS Connection; Clear Flash Failed, Please Update Again."
