After months of delays from my utility company we finally got our EG4 system connected yesterday. We are still waiting on a meter upgrade so any exported power is not going to be credited but with these batteries I’m hoping to stop as much export as possible anyway. At this point we aren’t even producing solar power, I believe there's an issue with how the GridBOSS is configured for AC coupling. Getting that going has been my primary goal since the electrician left. Secondarily but equally important is that for some reason my system seems to be stuck in a battery power only mode.
My system consists of a GridBOSS with my entire house on the backed up loads breaker, a FlexBOSS21, five indoor Wallmount batteries and our existing Enphase AC coupled solar system. I went through an all night ordeal getting everything configured and running, had several faults and warnings and ended up going back into a blackout to restart it all.
The grid is on and I've got grid voltage on the Eaton grid breaker and non-backup load lugs (which are unused). The inverter is on and powering the house from the batteries and its voltage is on the backup load breaker in the GridBOSS. Despite the grid being on the GridBOSS's "Grid" light is off, only its "Hybrid" light is on. In the EG4 Monitor center the system shows voltage on the grid but no power from it, that voltage matches my manual reading. Interestingly the mobile app shows zeroes instead of the voltage and frequency readings that are displayed in the web portal. I have tried cycling the grid breaker off and on with no change.
I have Smart Port 2 configured for AC Coupled solar input. It's frustrating that there are so few configuration options, it's only "enable" or "disable" and then an SOC start and SOC end setting and some time settings. The tool tip on the SOC end says to set it to 101 which I have done. I think I may not understand these parameters right, I initially set SOC start at 1% thinking that would keep the port on at all times but now I'm thinking it should actually be at 100% because maybe it's a "lower than this we turn on" setting instead of a "higher than this we turn on". If the sun is out I want power. Every time I try to change the parameter now I get an "operation failed error code 3." I disabled it to try again and I still get the same error. My Enphase system has started sending me red alerts because it has now been powered down for over 24 hours. There's no voltage on the smart port breaker.
At this point unless I can get some better guidance I am planning to do another blackout. I'm hoping that a full restart of the system will get the grid interconnect in the GridBOSS working and hopefully maybe it will also get the AC coupling running. I just need it to activate these two relays essentially is my understanding. Any advice is welcomed.
My system consists of a GridBOSS with my entire house on the backed up loads breaker, a FlexBOSS21, five indoor Wallmount batteries and our existing Enphase AC coupled solar system. I went through an all night ordeal getting everything configured and running, had several faults and warnings and ended up going back into a blackout to restart it all.
The grid is on and I've got grid voltage on the Eaton grid breaker and non-backup load lugs (which are unused). The inverter is on and powering the house from the batteries and its voltage is on the backup load breaker in the GridBOSS. Despite the grid being on the GridBOSS's "Grid" light is off, only its "Hybrid" light is on. In the EG4 Monitor center the system shows voltage on the grid but no power from it, that voltage matches my manual reading. Interestingly the mobile app shows zeroes instead of the voltage and frequency readings that are displayed in the web portal. I have tried cycling the grid breaker off and on with no change.
I have Smart Port 2 configured for AC Coupled solar input. It's frustrating that there are so few configuration options, it's only "enable" or "disable" and then an SOC start and SOC end setting and some time settings. The tool tip on the SOC end says to set it to 101 which I have done. I think I may not understand these parameters right, I initially set SOC start at 1% thinking that would keep the port on at all times but now I'm thinking it should actually be at 100% because maybe it's a "lower than this we turn on" setting instead of a "higher than this we turn on". If the sun is out I want power. Every time I try to change the parameter now I get an "operation failed error code 3." I disabled it to try again and I still get the same error. My Enphase system has started sending me red alerts because it has now been powered down for over 24 hours. There's no voltage on the smart port breaker.
At this point unless I can get some better guidance I am planning to do another blackout. I'm hoping that a full restart of the system will get the grid interconnect in the GridBOSS working and hopefully maybe it will also get the AC coupling running. I just need it to activate these two relays essentially is my understanding. Any advice is welcomed.
