Ralf

Hi Yáll I hope you are all well. I have 3x Axpert King inverters and 4x Kodak BL3.6 batteries working with a Raspberry Pi4 with ICC software loaded I am having a weird problem on my Pi4 with ICC software loaded. For some reason there are massive fluctuations on my display. One of the most notable is that every now and again the Battery Volts dial goes from say 56V to 45V for 1-2 seconds and then goes back to the true battery reading. This is playing havoc with the graph below on the screen and also with the history. I have asked ICC and they said it is most likely the Victron BMW. I am a little hesitant to believe that the Worlds best solar component manufacturer is at fault. It might be a coincidence, but this problem started after activating the ICC GPIO software on my Pi4 and having them set it up to work with the ICC monitoring software. I am also struggling to get the ICC software to read the Kodak BL3.6 batteries data and to display the batteries true state of charge ext. Can someone help me please? Are the Kodak batteries not just re-branded Pylontech's?

Hi Y'all I would just like to get true and accurate info please. I have 3 x 5Kw Axpert Kings in parallel (15Kw) (single fase) with 12Kw of solar array. I want to change to Lithium batteries and the options are slim, as I need between 12-15Kw usable storage, that can offer 300A constant draw from the batteries. I also want to be able to add more batteries to get to about 60Kw of storage. The problem is that the communication of batt to inverter is critical for me and I don't want to use a 3rd party device that needs internet connectivity to work. The options I am looking at are that are 100% compatible to the Kings are: Kodak batteries (they over 100A each) or Hubble AM2. The Pylontech will be a perfect match, but they don't offer the Amperage unless I buy 6 batteries to start off with, which I don't have the "mula" for at the moment.🤣 I can get Hubble batteries at a good price, but I have to know if they can work with the King, without the Riot cloud link, with 100% comms via the RS485- Canbus cable? I have asked suppliers etc, but I need to know for sure. Thanks guys

Hi RiPMonster I got mine from a wholesale suppliers, but they wont supply directly to the public. For which inverter do you need it for? Here is a link to another supplier and the comms board they sell. https://shumata.com/product/kodak-comm-board-for-ogx5-48/ This is not for the Axpert King! https://shumata.com/product/kodak-comm-board-for-og3-24-og5-48/ This is the comms board for the Axpert King. I see they are out of stock. Here is another link to the comms board that is in stock. https://shumata.com/product/kodak-comm-board-for-og-plus-series/ I think it is the right comms board as there is no pic. https://portal.segensolar.co.za/Reseller/docs/Service manual - AXPERT KING 3KW&5KW.pdf Here is the service manual for the Axpert King. Let me know if you don't come right.

Coulomb, I am sorry, I totally forgot to reply to your msg. You are right, the R4k did not include my or my helper's hourly labour. Had I added that, it would've been cheaper to have the repair company do the repairs. 🤣

Hi Krokkedil I got it from a wholesale company, where we are a registered reseller and installer. But you can buy it from Shumata ( link attached). I buy from them quite often, their prices are very reasonable. Their service and delivery is brilliant. Never had a problem with them. The links I have attached are for the MKS and the King 5Kw 48V inverters. The King is called the Plus in Kodak. They also have for the 3Kw Axperts and just about every replacement or component. At this moment they have stock of the main boards. If you need the service manual to do the replacement, let me know. Let me know if you need any help and I will gladly share what I have learnt. Regards https://shumata.com/product/kodak-main-board-for-ogx5-48/ https://shumata.com/product/kodak-main-board-for-og-plus5-48/

Thank you British racing green! It was make or break.

Thanks guys I had a whole long message typed and for some or other reason it just disappeared. 😡 Anyway, keep well until the next time.

Thanks Steve. I just thought that someone could benefit from my "school fees". One concern I had, was the firmware/software version on the new parts as opposed to the existing two inverters, so before I connected the "repaired"inverter in parallel with the other two, I double checked that the firmware/software versions were exactly the same and they were. I was lucky as I could see which parts were faulty and I also had two other inverters to compare when re-assembling the faulty unit.

Hi all I decided to take my inverter apart myself and found that the comms board had a blown connector to the SCC board, so I replced the comms board and it still dedn't work, so I stripped the whole inverter down to the main board and found it had blown in various places, presumably because one of the soldering points protruded to close to the casing and shorted out. I then replaced the main board re-installed all parts and then restarted the inverter and everything went well untill I re-cnnected the PV array and then sparks started flying. Immediately disconnected all connections, striped the SCC board and found blown parts there aswell. Replaced the SCC board, put everything together as per service manual. Then re-installed inverter, started it up, all was fine until I connected it up with the other 2 inverters in parallel, gave an error, found the problem was the cable between parallel card and main board was inserted in the wrong socket, one of two next to each other, once this was done and reassembled, rebooted all 3 inverters and voila, all working an back to normal. I can honestly say that I could probably strip and reassemble a King blindfolded now!🙄😇🤣 Just to set things straight, some repair centers and suppliers said that Kodak, Mecer, Axpert etc parts aren't interchangeable, well all the parts I have replaced on my Axpert king were Kodak OG 5.48 Plus parts excepting the parallel board which was a Mecer board. The parts are relatively cheap, the comms board was R44.52 excl shipping. The main board was R2500. All in all I repaired my inverter for R4k Cheers

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Ceres, Western Cape

Hi all, I have a problem with a faulty "Branded" Axpert King inverter. One evening I logged into my ICC Pi4, that is connected to my 3 parallel King inverters and noticed that we were drawing excessively high current, which did not look right. The next day I went to our container that houses the system and found an error on the Primary inverter's screen (can't remember the code), I switched the inverter off and tried to switch it on again, but with no luck. It just would not restart again, display also dead. I sent the inverter in to the place I bought it from, they said it was no longer under warranty (apparently 1 yr warranty, it is just less than 2 yrs old) and that they sent it in to a repairer. After 3 weeks I was told that the inverter would cost in excess of R7k to have the inverter repaired. I asked for a detailed report on how and why and was told that report would cost an extra R1k. I have tried to find other repair centers to send my inverter to, to get a second quote (for my insurers) but to no avail, as they say it is a "branded" Axpert king and they can't repair it because of differences in firmware etc etc. Can anyone assist me with my dilemma? Thank you