thanhrodke
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1. My inverter displays will actually stay energized if the MicroUSB cable is plugged into them, even if both the solar switch is off and the battery breaker is off. IIRC, it shows a steady error 32.wow! Thanks for testing. I feel there are some other bugs as well
1) when you restart the inverter, the display does not show the correct setting/diagram until you take out the battery communication cable and put it back in(maybe it just take a long time to update)
2) The output wattage does not seem correct and does not change if I add/remove loads
3) is there a firmware update that I need to do? They sent inverter software CD which I could not install since I don't have CD player on my laptop. Where can I download the software from? SS does not seem to be responding to my questions.
4) I have a raspberry pi with a USB-A. I don't see a way to connect to inverter. Do I need a USB-A to micro-usb adapter?
would be good to copy SS on this thread..thought I saw someone copy them but not sure what the handle is.
2. Are you looking at the output wattage in Solar Assistant or on the inverter? If SA, there's a setting in SA that I recommend that you change from battery to inverter. It's in the Advanced menu, which is to the left of the Connect/Disconnect button on the settings tab. You'll need to disconnect SA first, then click the Advanced button. Towards the bottom, there's a Narada BMS section. Change that from Battery to Inverter. My EG4 LifePower4 batteries won't report any charge/discharge smaller than 100 watts each. But the inverter will report all the way down to 1 watt of charge or discharge. I am not claiming how accurate it is, but I am just saying that with multiple batteries, you can be drawing 100 watts times the number of batteries before the batteries report anything (give or take). So with my 12 batteries, all things equal, I can charge or discharge up to 1,200 watts before the batteries report anything to SA.
3. Here's the EG4 download page, but they don't currently list any firmware for the EG4 6000EX inverter: https://eg4electronics.com/downloads/
4. You will need a USB-A to MicroUSB cable to connect to your inverter. And if you get additional inverters in the future, it's best to connect SA to each one individually, as there is some information that SA can't get unless it's directly connected to each inverter. It's not critical data, but the missing data can mess up some of the totals and averages.