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6000XP Not exiting bypass mode for hours

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Fairly often, my 6000XP will enter bypass mode when loads are low. I only have a few circuits on it right now. Sometimes it will *stay* in bypass mode for a long time (minutes to hours). It tries to exit bypass mode every 5 minutes, but fails each time (lights blink and it's still in bypass mode with an open "EPS Overload"). I've systematically turned off all my circuits one by one (to see if any of them is preventing the exiting of bypass mode). You can see this in the graph at the end as I slowly reduced loads. I understand that at 5-min intervals a very short spiky load right during the time when it attempts switching won't show up in the graphs, but I've been watching the levels *live* and don't see any such spiky loads.

I do have a freezer that was on at the time, though it has about a 50% duty cycle and would be causing problems all the time if it was the culprit. It seems like some small inductive load combined with the short outage during the bypass switch-over causes a high but extremely short burst of current that exceeds the "overload" threshold? Will a sub-1s burst of current cause the EPS overload? The docs say the 6000XP should handle short bursts of very high loads, so I'm not sure what's going on.

I even tried bumping the max discharge amps to 100A and it still wouldn't exit bypass mode.

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(@frugal-farmer)
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Is it possible to program that inverter to not go into bypass mode when fully charged or slightly loaded? Curious minds wish to know! 

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@dannybeardsley Can you post screenshots of your settings?

@frugal-farmer Yes, you can! You have the option to keep it in bypass mode or configure it to switch to battery power once they are fully charged or reach the SOC level you set.

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@eric Hi Eric! Will you explain how to configure the inverter to stay in bypass until the batteries are fully charged? I’m assuming the setting is the same for the 12000XP?

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@wardo5757 You can configure AC charging based on the SOC. Set the AC charge start percentage to the desired level at which you want the batteries to begin charging and set the AC charge end to 100% to ensure they charge fully. The inverter will remain in standby until the batteries reach a full charge.

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@eric OK, you’re talking about A/C Charging correct?  I was hoping you meant Solar charging.

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@wardo5757 That would be so nice.

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@joel-brodeur It would, i can’t believe its not an option to set a SOC for solar charging, seems so basic to me, but then I’m very new to solar.

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@wardo5757 Apologies for the confusion—I may have misunderstood your question. I believe you're referring to using PV to charge the batteries and the grid to power the loads. The inverter's default setting is self-consumption, meaning that when there isn't enough solar power to run the loads and charge the batteries, the inverter will bypass and prioritize using solar to charge the batteries. As long as you don't have AC charge enabled, the grid will not charge batteries, only power loads.  

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Here's another example from today where it stayed in bypass mode for a while with loads that could easily be handled by solar *or* PV.

You're welcome to log into my account and look at the data around: 2025-02-26 09:50:42
Serial number: 4263740453

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@dannybeardsley the reason your inverter is pulling from the grid is because your amps are way too low on the Discharge setting.  That’s your battery amps not inverter output amps. You should have that set do the discharge capability of your batts, it should be at least 125 amps to run that inverter at 6k watts.

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