abeetude

Thanks for sharing. Did not know about the horseshoe or plotly cards. Added to Dashboard

 

I have seen quite a few people asking about being able to see the SunSynk Flow UI in Home Assistant. So I went playing a bit to see if it is possible to create a custom component in home assistant that would mirror this.  Reading a whole lot of documentation on Home Assistant as well as getting to grips with all the possible measurements that is available from the Inverter, I finally have a VERY ALPHA version of it running in Home Assistant and it appears to reflect the UI on my inverter pretty well.

Maybe one day I will publish this in HACS and make this custom component available for use. For now there is still a whole lot of learning that needs to happen on building custom components for Home Assistant.
Yes I know ... I'm a bit of a #GEEK, but at least now I can see my Inverter's flow screen without going to the garage. 😉

My solar journey started with a solar geyser conversion. Did I make the wrong choice? Probably should have opted for evacuated tubes instead of the flat panel as the efficiency of tubes is so much better than the flat panel. Having said that, in full sun it does a pretty good job.
Now that I have my PV system, I use the 3kW element to heat the geyser and there is nothing to beat the time it takes to get it to the max element temperature of 65C which is capped by the Geyserwise controller. The Flat Panel then does the further heating. In Winter, hardly any rise occurs, in Summer it will take the Geyser Temp to 80C at which stage the Geyserwise inhibits the circulation pump. (This doen't happen often.)
My experience with the flat panel has been good when the start temp in the morning is around 30C. It will easily take it to 55C over a full sunny day. (150l geyser)

I have more than enough PV power now to always heat my geyser. So my conclusion now (after 4 years of flat Panel) is that the cost of extra PV Panels to power the geyser element is a better option than the cost of a solar geyser. And the element efficiency is exponentially better in terms of heating the water.  Having said that, these are my thoughts once I started with the PV. For someone just wanting to reduce their Grid usage and not spending an arm and a leg, a Solar Geyser conversion or complete solar geyser system remains a fair option. Just don't do what I did, rather spend the extra for tubes instead of flat panel.

8kw Sunsynk paired with 2 x 6.4kwh BSLB
12 x 455w JA Solar panels to come  
 

@JayN Joh you are brave!  
I did this and was banned from posting for a month and received 5 permanent warning points. Apparently one cant post your true experiences  if it goes against a certain shop and the admins pushing a product.
 
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@JayN Joh you are brave!  
I did this and was banned from posting for a month and received 5 permanent warning points. Apparently one cant post your true experiences  if it goes against a certain shop and the admins pushing a product.
 
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You may be right. My batteries are usually fully charged before I reach a consistent high solar throughput. Up until that point it climbs up to 3.5kW.
I only see the 3.8kW when it is cloudy and the throughput is intermittent. I assumed it was because it was later in the day. I'm still learning...😉 

Maybe Eskom are estimating your readings

Wondering what the percentage failure rate vs units sold are on the AM 2 Hubble's? I bought 2 x AM2's last year. One failed very early on (less than 50 partial cycles) and it was only apparent when DOD was reaching 40% or below. As soon as 40 odd % was reached the one pack would just plummet to close to 0 bringing the SOC down as well as state of health. 
The RIOT device used to report on SOH per pack - but I see they have taken it away from the dashboard, almost like they do not want the end user to have the detail. Maybe they just need to enable it who knows?
Either way I now sit with 2 x AM2's basically brand new with little confidence of the future and the longevity of the product. Unsure of future failures.
Scary thing is I was trying to save on the life of the battery and keep it above 50% DOD, problems started surfacing when I wanted to discharge to 35% once daily. After various tests remotely over a period of time Hubble did replace the pack.
Having said that, If the clock was turned back I would invest in another product. No negativity implied. All for supporting local! 

Wondering what the percentage failure rate vs units sold are on the AM 2 Hubble's? I bought 2 x AM2's last year. One failed very early on (less than 50 partial cycles) and it was only apparent when DOD was reaching 40% or below. As soon as 40 odd % was reached the one pack would just plummet to close to 0 bringing the SOC down as well as state of health. 
The RIOT device used to report on SOH per pack - but I see they have taken it away from the dashboard, almost like they do not want the end user to have the detail. Maybe they just need to enable it who knows?
Either way I now sit with 2 x AM2's basically brand new with little confidence of the future and the longevity of the product. Unsure of future failures.
Scary thing is I was trying to save on the life of the battery and keep it above 50% DOD, problems started surfacing when I wanted to discharge to 35% once daily. After various tests remotely over a period of time Hubble did replace the pack.
Having said that, If the clock was turned back I would invest in another product. No negativity implied. All for supporting local! 

Wondering what the percentage failure rate vs units sold are on the AM 2 Hubble's? I bought 2 x AM2's last year. One failed very early on (less than 50 partial cycles) and it was only apparent when DOD was reaching 40% or below. As soon as 40 odd % was reached the one pack would just plummet to close to 0 bringing the SOC down as well as state of health. 
The RIOT device used to report on SOH per pack - but I see they have taken it away from the dashboard, almost like they do not want the end user to have the detail. Maybe they just need to enable it who knows?
Either way I now sit with 2 x AM2's basically brand new with little confidence of the future and the longevity of the product. Unsure of future failures.
Scary thing is I was trying to save on the life of the battery and keep it above 50% DOD, problems started surfacing when I wanted to discharge to 35% once daily. After various tests remotely over a period of time Hubble did replace the pack.
Having said that, If the clock was turned back I would invest in another product. No negativity implied. All for supporting local! 

@PowerUser let me try this way  Ensure that your Relay black wire (as mentioned in my 1st reply) is wired to position 5 on the relay NO for Normally Open

Step 1 -  Ensure "Islanding Mode" is selected on the Inverter
Step 2 - Remove the BLACK NEUTRAL wire which is currently screwed into the NC (Normally Closed) terminal

 
Step 2 - Connect the removed  BLACK NEUTRAL wire and connect it to the NO (Normally Open) terminal

 
Step 3 - Connect from the Inverter ATS240V a cable to the relay pins 14 & 13



Step 4 - Connect N from the connector block to N on the Inverter LOAD and E to Earth on the Inverter

Hope that helps.
@Leshen Helped me figure it out a while ago so kudo's to him...
 
 

Step 1 -  Ensure "Islanding Mode" is selected on the Inverter
Step 2 - Remove the BLACK NEUTRAL wire which is currently screwed into the NC (Normally Closed) terminal

 
Step 2 - Connect the removed  BLACK NEUTRAL wire and connect it to the NO (Normally Open) terminal

 
Step 3 - Connect from the Inverter ATS240V a cable to the relay pins 14 & 13



Step 4 - Connect N from the connector block to N on the Inverter LOAD and E to Earth on the Inverter

Hope that helps.
@Leshen Helped me figure it out a while ago so kudo's to him...
 
 

I wish Voltronic saw a reference to this issue. Sigh.
The premature float bugs.

how did the dogs get on the roof? 😅

Interesting short video demonstrating why you can't use AC breakers for a DC Current
 

https://www.sunsynk.org/post/sunsynk-e419-update

In the online shop, you can put the software only version into your basket and proceed to payment. I did not venture further than that

EDIT - Added reply name
@SolarFrans I posted here of what I use with my Axpert inverter. It works a treat and with Node-Red integration with Telegram I receive live stats on my cell where ever.
 

Now this looks the business 

You can buy off the shelve software like ICC or try this great DIY option that I use:
 
HARDWARE:
Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) version
USB or serial-USB Cable depending on your interface to the inverter
SOFTWARE:
Solpilog - polling inverter / power information 
Telegram - On your cell! Get your inverter stats on the fly! Create a bot. Works great
Node-red - Awesome flows!
DuckDNS - To link your ever changing WAN IP to a static domain name - Stats / dashboard available as long as you have internet.
EmonCMS - Store data. Design your own custom dashboards 
Docker
Let me know and I can build you an image that you can download and try it out!
 
 
 

Thanks for the input, everyone! So I guess it's SunSynks all around 😆
 
I'm going to try the SolPipLog software as mentioned by @abeetude and see if that can replace what ICC was doing before it broke down...
If that fails it's going to be a SunSynk.
 
Thanks!

Oh great, this is worth checking out!
Their GitHub page does mention Pylontech integration so fingers crossed...
And the fact that it's open source means I can actual debug it myself and fix issues if it doesn't work, a great plus over ICC which is closed source.
 
OK, let's try this before spending 30K rands on a new inverter! 😃
Thanks!

I contacted ICC a few weeks ago, apparently you must buy the full package from them (pi and software). I had a PI around so it made no sense to buy more hardware. That made my decision easy...didnt buy ICC. Got an alternative going Solpiplog. Not sure of the Pylon integration yet