Advice needed - Solar System

Lupus said:
Run the battery down? Why would you need to do that?
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The batteries must be less than 90% for the inverter to sync to the generator. The moment the batteries when to 90%, you could hear the genny change from idling to carrying the load. Not sure why, but it is what it is.
 
rh1 said:
The batteries must be less than 90% for the inverter to sync to the generator. The moment the batteries when to 90%, you could hear the genny change from idling to carrying the load. Not sure why, but it is what it is.
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Ah might be a setting on the inverter.
 
Generating 1.2kw at the moment, from 4 panels.


The Sunsynk App was a mission to get working.

For those who will read this:

I downloaded the app. Use my gmail address for the sign up, did not received the code for the first 3 attempts. Retried on the 4 attempt got the code.

The app could not connect the sunsynk inverter, it indicated that I should manually connect to the sunsynk wifi connection via the phone wifi settings, which I did, but the app still did not want to sync. I manually connected to the sunsynk dongle settings via the phone browser using htpps://10.0.0.2 and set the settings there. I basically made the wifi dongle an AP for my Wifi Router, I also reserved the IP address of the dongle on my router. I am not technical but this my limited understanding of what I did.

Only after the above, did the App synchronised to the inverter.
 
rh1 said:
the bottom panel of the pallet was damage during shipping
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I was advised by Steve to always check for that, it does happen. My installer also checks the voltages of each and every single panel before lugging it up to the roof. Which courier was it? Triton are usually pretty good.

rh1 said:
We had to run the battery down to test the genny last night. But it worked and easily carried the load.
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Great! A lot of people seem to struggle with it. It looks like you have it installed grid side, so if you have problems in future, you can always do grid shaving to limit the grid to 5000W, or limit battery charge rates.

Mzezman said:
even on bad days - there is usually SOME generation to at least cover your base load
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Yes that, and every day the sun will come up again.
 
RonSwanson said:
I was advised by Steve to always check for that, it does happen. My installer also checks the voltages of each and every single panel before lugging it up to the roof. Which courier was it? Triton are usually pretty good.
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Yes it was Triton.

RonSwanson said:
Great! A lot of people seem to struggle with it. It looks like you have it installed grid side, so if you have problems in future, you can always do grid shaving to limit the grid to 5000W, or limit battery charge rates.
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I think the installer did that settings when testing the generator, I will confirm with him.
 
Very weird, maybe some of you can assist:

Yesterday, Cape Town was beautiful sunny day, even the day before was a sunny day, when the sun is directly above my house, I was generating under 500w of electricity. Today same time, but a bit overcast, I was generating almost 2kw of electricity. Why do I generate more power on overcast days than on sunny cloudless days
 
rh1 said:
Very weird, maybe some of you can assist:

Yesterday, Cape Town was beautiful sunny day, even the day before was a sunny day, when the sun is directly above my house, I was generating under 500w of electricity. Today same time, but a bit overcast, I was generating almost 2kw of electricity. Why do I generate more power on overcast days than on sunny cloudless days
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google cloud edge.

Also see the clouds as a massive light diffuser.

Clouds arnt bad, very dark clouds are.

On a side note when this happens my system can peak at 110% of its capacity.
 
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Snyper564 said:
google cloud edge.

Also see the clouds as a massive light diffuser.

Clouds arnt bad, very dark clouds are.

On a side note when this happens my system can peak at 110% of its capacity.
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This ^

But also what was your battery SOC yesterday and today. 500w yesterday may have bene because your batteries were already full and so only the baseload was covered. 2k today may be because the batteries still needed to top up

But also cloud-edge
 
Mzezman said:
This ^

But also what was your battery SOC yesterday and today. 500w yesterday may have bene because your batteries were already full and so only the baseload was covered. 2k today may be because the batteries still needed to top up

But also cloud-edge
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ah yes the soc def makes a dif, in summer im usually done charging by midday thats 2 hours later in winter.
 
Mzezman said:
This ^

But also what was your battery SOC yesterday and today. 500w yesterday may have bene because your batteries were already full and so only the baseload was covered. 2k today may be because the batteries still needed to top up

But also cloud-edge
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According to the Sunsynk statistics it was 88%.

Yesterday at 13h00 Full Sunshine no cloud:

Solar yesterday.jpg

Today at 13h00:


Solar today.jpg
 
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