Jeff from Ontario
New Member
Hi there, first time user on this forum, and first post. I apologize for my newbieness here, but I appreciate all your help!
Here's the story.... I'm on a microFIT program, which means I get paid to make electricity. Last month my cheque was zero dollars Canadian, which works out to zero dollars US. haha. Obviously something was wrong. I don't have a monitoring system, so I can't really pinpoint the problem. First I checked the breaker panel for the system and noticed that all 4 banks had a tripped breaker. The main breaker was not tripped and the lightning arrester breaker was also not tripped. I attempted to re-set each breaker and was unsuccessful. Each time I switched the breaker, it immediately tripped again. Then I waited until night time and this time I was able to re-set each breaker. Over the next few days, I kept checking the generation meter and the reading did not appear to change. I have 40 panels, each made by heliene. Each panel has it's own microinverter, made by enecsys. I'm not sure where to start my troubleshooting. One person suggested putting a clamp style ammeter on the output of each microinverter and look for current flow. I checked for chewed wires by a squirrel and didn't find any. My guess is a dead short somewhere.
Your comments would be greatly appreciated!
Jeff
Here's the story.... I'm on a microFIT program, which means I get paid to make electricity. Last month my cheque was zero dollars Canadian, which works out to zero dollars US. haha. Obviously something was wrong. I don't have a monitoring system, so I can't really pinpoint the problem. First I checked the breaker panel for the system and noticed that all 4 banks had a tripped breaker. The main breaker was not tripped and the lightning arrester breaker was also not tripped. I attempted to re-set each breaker and was unsuccessful. Each time I switched the breaker, it immediately tripped again. Then I waited until night time and this time I was able to re-set each breaker. Over the next few days, I kept checking the generation meter and the reading did not appear to change. I have 40 panels, each made by heliene. Each panel has it's own microinverter, made by enecsys. I'm not sure where to start my troubleshooting. One person suggested putting a clamp style ammeter on the output of each microinverter and look for current flow. I checked for chewed wires by a squirrel and didn't find any. My guess is a dead short somewhere.
Your comments would be greatly appreciated!
Jeff