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Eric
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@pawnee Just to be clear the issue remains the same when the inverter switches from generator to battery?
I will report this again to the team so we can look further into this.


   
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Eric
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@ron
The closest option is AC charge mode, where the inverter uses either the grid or a generator to power loads and charge batteries. However, it cannot charge the batteries and use them to power loads simultaneously.

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@eric yes, but for whatever reason adding 1 minute to cooldown did stop it from switching from battery to generator then back to the battery then the brownout. 

Now once voltage is reached the generator stops charging the batteries. The batteries take over the house and after the cooldown period the generator shuts off and then the batteries disconnect from the house for a second or so. Thanks for staying on this 

 


   
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Ron
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@pawnee @eric When the generator is running and producing AC the inverter passes the AC through to power your loads and also converts the AC to DC to charge the batteries. The brownout is occurring when the inverter has to switch from converting AC to DC to charge the batteries to inverting battery DC to AC to power your loads as it can't do both at the same time. I was hoping that the "cool down" process would allow the generator to provide pass through AC for the loads and allow the inverter time to make this switch avoiding the brown out. This is why I have a chargeverter as the inverter does not have a separate converter


   
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@ron according to my 18k screen and my amp meter the generator is not running the house at this point. The batteries are when the brownout occurs, or you could say the generator has handed the load to the batteries. Then for some reason when the generator shuts off the batteries disconnect. I don't get any amp measurement coming from the generator when this happens.


   
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Ron
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@pawnee How exactly did you determine that the house loads were being powered through the batteries and inverter and not the generator?


   
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@ron amp clamp on the wires coming from the generator


   
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Ron
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Doesn't make any sense to me. Good luck


   
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