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JLankford
@jlankford
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Joined: November 7, 2024 2:39 pm
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

@weertske The CAN port is what I'm using. The RS485 connection didn't work for me. Maybe post some photos of each battery in the morning, cable conn...

7 months ago
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RE: Newbie Help, Missing Battery information on Monitor Center

@weertske On the inverter, the battery brand should be set to 1 for the wallmount, not 0. You have battery comm cables connecting the second and t...

7 months ago
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RE: 6000xp Balancing issue--how to correct?

@brdfrd I agree you probably don’t have a connection problem unless there’s a bad crimp somewhere. If you check for this, don’t forget the trick of...

8 months ago
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RE: Auditory behavior idle and under load: decibels and noise

laurjam mentioned the possibility of using a Chargeverter to mitigate the noise.

8 months ago
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RE: Auditory behavior idle and under load: decibels and noise

@laurjam To make sure you're not making the wrong assumption, the Chargeverter has a cooling fan and it's fairly loud too. Mine is only intended fo...

8 months ago
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RE: 6000xp Balancing issue--how to correct?

@brdfrd @joel-brodeur You guys are thinking about this backwards. Instead of brdfrd having one battery that’s “outta whack”, in his low-discharge ...

8 months ago
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RE: 6000xp Balancing issue--how to correct?

Yes, that’s correct. If you start with a fully charged system, all reporting 100%, and then give it a constant 200 watt discharge load, I predict you ...

8 months ago
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RE: Internet down

Short answer is No. Longer answer is it depends on what you mean by "internet down." If you mean the internet infrastructure at your installation si...

8 months ago
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RE: Order of Operations for Whole home backup, Grid Tied

@fatanu I attach here an older version of the 18Kpv manual which includes a section for all the inverter settings. They seem to have removed that se...

8 months ago
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RE: GridBOSS and generator

That seems to be the general error code for attempting to change any setting to a value that's out of range or not allowed. I would guess you have som...

8 months ago
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RE: It's Christmas...so here is my wish list

Our house is mostly LED lighting, and I've never noticed this. FWIW, this unit is still on firmware FAAB-1C1C.

8 months ago
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RE: Auditory behavior idle and under load: decibels and noise

I have no idea about the other models. I agree with you about the noise. It's the reason I bought a hybrid inverter, so I could mount it outdoors. Oth...

8 months ago
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RE: 6000xp Balancing issue--how to correct?

@brdfrd FWIW, here is the status of my system right now. This is exactly 36 hours after the last full charge took place. With 1,800 watts of EPS st...

8 months ago
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RE: 6000xp Balancing issue--how to correct?

I think the discharge is spread across the batteries regardless, but most of them are simply not measuring it. When you say that one unit discharges...

8 months ago
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RE: Auditory behavior idle and under load: decibels and noise

For the 18Kpv the fan logic appears to trigger just based on power flow through the unit, in any permutation... into or out of the battery. Simple gri...

8 months ago
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