Random connection to Grid showing on display

Do you have Off-Grid mode Enabled or Disabled?

It is connected to the grid. That is why you are seeing voltage and frequency. It’s just not using the grid in your picture.

if you lose the grid the picture will change from your consumption going to the house to standby/eps. The grid would also show no voltage and frequency.

@eg4eric Off grid mode is Disabled

I beg to differ @ezpz.  As seen in this shot the connection to the grid is active with a small power draw.  Again this is observed at random times.

I was explaining your picture. There will only be a line there is you are importing or exporting power to the grid. As you can see in your picture it is 0W. Hence no line. But the voltage and frequency will always display there if the grid is up. Grid tied doesn’t mean you are always exporting to the grid. Grid tied means that the system will draw any shortfall of load power from the grid if needed, and you also have the option of exporting power to the grid if you have an agreement with the util company to do that. Zero export also means it should never be exporting any power to the grid.

yes it doesn’t seem to matter what settings you have other than offgrid enabled to prevent you from importing power from the grid at random times no matter what the loads on your system are doing. I have that same issue.

@ezpz Noted and thank you for the input. I am attaching the system configuration settings for reference.  From my observation, it appears that the connection to the GRID activates when there is a significant load or production swing where the inverter's power level cannot keep up with the power swing.  Due to customer requests, my post was to get clarity from EG4 gurus on the observation(this is not mentioned in the manual).

Those settings look fine.

And yes sometimes the inverter uses the grid if there are big power swings. It might import power from the grid or even export a little to the grid before the inverter “catches” up. The only way to avoid that is to enable offgrid mode or physically switch off the main grid breaker, but that risks things not starting in the house or at least struggling to start with huge loads.

@sylinx
As mentioned by EZPZ, the inverter will draw power from the grid at times when needed. However, the only way to completely avoid using the grid is to enable Off-Grid Mode. As long as the Grid is connected to the inverter, it will always detect the voltage and frequency. 

@eg4eric Thanks for the confirmation

Hello, I've got my XP6000 running my barn on backup power (EPS) with the battery (soon to be "batteries") being charged via solar.  Operating well but I have 1 question and 1 issue.  Maybe you all can help.

1st - My monitoring screens and setup are not the same as shown.  @sylinx, were those screenshots off the phone app or a laptop?  As an example, I do not have the working mode options shown in posts above.  Do I need a firmware update in the XP6000? 

Using firmware version ccaa-1A0F10

 2nd - The inverter will not switch to bypass fast enough to run my compressor (240v with a 15 amp motor).  When starting, the compressor motor struggles, the voltage falls off to around 170 something, and the inverter gets an over current fault.  If I turn on the "AC first" mode I can hear the relay switch to grid mode (also on the LCD display) in the inverter and the compressor will start and run with no issue.  My welder runs on 240 and it does fine.  All other 120v devices do fine also.  

@old76ta 

1. Yes, the screenshots look like they were from a phone.
2. which battery do you have for your system?

Battery is an EG4LL-s.  100AH.  Running a single battery right now but the second one is supposed to be in this week.  

The 6000xp is set at battery type 6.  This was the default setting.  If I set it to 0, the inverter normal light turns off.  Do I need to be cycling the power on the 6000xp when I change the battery type?  After setting it back to 6, the inverter fans come on and the normal light illuminates again.  

@old76ta 
Try setting the Lithium Type to 1. If it's not working on 1, then we can check the cable and connection between battery and inverter. Lithium Type: 1 is the best protocol for LL-S batteries.

Good News - Selected Lithium battery type 1 and had to completely power down all components.  When system came back up the Normal (green) light came on solid.

Bad news is my air compressor still does not want to start.  After cycling the breaker for the compressor (twice) while the 6000xp was trying to start it (compressor), enough power was created to run (compressor).  The app said it was taking 6500 watts to run the all systems, which seems very high.  Also got an "EPS high voltage" error.  Checked all 48v DC connections and they were right on the torque spec.  I still don't know why the 6000xp doesn't go into bypass with this much load?