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MikeDowdell
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Joined: November 19, 2025 5:55 pm
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RE: 18kpv AC Charge Mode window not using battery when full

Adding more context. I disabled the AC Charge Mode removing it from my working mode settings. This left only Peak Shaving Mode and the problem persis...

3 days ago
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RE: 18kpv AC Charge Mode window not using battery when full

Reading the literature, it seems that by only using the grid during a PV Charge Priority window, and not allowing off grid mode to go from Grid Use ba...

1 week ago
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RE: 18kpv AC Charge Mode window not using battery when full

I would expect the time window to take over for allowing an AC charge within that window. I did not expect it to switch away from self consumption to...

1 week ago
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RE: 18kpv AC Charge Mode window not using battery when full

The question is why doesn't the Inverter use the battery when set to Time+SOC/Volt but it will use it when set to SOC/Volt. Setting to Time+SOC/Volt p...

2 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

So I have narrowed this down to a logic problem in the inverter related to working modes. One with the AC Charge mode time window and the other when t...

2 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

It did it again this morning. Battery was depleted down to 12% (battery cutoff is at 10% which had happened), in Off Grid Mode, EPS relays were off a...

2 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

It did it again today but I couldn't leave it that way and miss another day of charging. It seems like in Off Grid Mode, once the battery gets down to...

2 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

So it finally switched over to EPS on its own at 1:01pm then back off and back on again at 1:09pm when if finally stayed on and started charging the b...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

So this morning it appears to be doing it again. When the loads turned on, solar immediately jumped 2500watts to meet the load but had not been using ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

Of course, this morning it did not seem to do it. So its intermittent.

3 weeks ago
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RE: 18kpv every morning powers load with pv but wont send any to batteries until inverter restart.

For reference, below illustrated a typical load/charge scenario where it worked correctly. My loads are automated so they are always the same and the...

3 weeks ago
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