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spikegv

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  1. Please share a link to the solarmd forum
  2. How many cycles have the batteries gone through approximately
  3. So had another random trip today. Went off at 13:05. I opened the cover at the bottom of the inverter and this is what I assume the bonding was that the electrician did. Doesn't look like a good job.
  4. Sorry, the onesto trips only. I will confirm what the Schneider breaker drops but to my knowledge only breaker 27 removes AC from the inverter.
  5. Update - dropping breaker 26 had no impact on the inverter Setting 28 only has the option PAL. Has something been connected incorrectly on the inverter that makes it think that it's on parallel?
  6. 1) everything on the red phase runs on the inverter unless I push the changeover to Eskom. 2) The inverter is supplied by 27. If I drop that breaker it goes to batterries. (I will check 26 as well) 3) when we get these nuisance trips the ones to is the one that drops and no other breakers. 4) will change that today. 5) sub db is a small board outside that has outside lights on it. (I think the original electrician removed earth on this one as the lights still stay on when this nuisance trip happens)
  7. The house is running on 3 phase but the inverter is running only on one of the phases. I can take a picture of the whole setup to make it clearer but the electrician called me and said that I should start the process of elimination by dropping a breaker each day and seeing if the power trips. Doesn't sound like it's going to solve anything as it's intermittent
  8. Current version is (U1)72 and (U2)04. The electrician told me he strapped or bonded the neutral and earth on the inverter. (In layman terms told me basically creating a transformer?) The earth leakage tripping is the one just after the inverter which supplies the load. The AC is connected to Utility. The inverter switches to solar in the morning and then to Utility in the evenings.
  9. The reason I think it's the inverter is because the insurance company installed another inverter before the Mecer which was in place for 3 weeks and we had no trips. ( They swapped out the other inverter for the Mecer as the easy solar (axpert) was very noisy and the fans ran continuously. I was reading the manual and saw this option. It's currently on default is that correct? 38 Allow neutral and grounding of AC output is connected together: When enabled, inverter can deliver signal to trigger grounding box to short neutral and grounding Disable: Neutral and grounding of AC output is disconnected. (Default) Enable: Neutral and grounding of AC output is connected. This function is only available when the inverter is working with external grounding box. Only when the inverter is working in battery mode, it will trigger grounding box to connect neutral and grounding of AC output
  10. Hi everyone. Hope someone can help me. My inverter (Pro line) was struck by lightning and it was replaced with a new inverter (Mecer) in December. The problem is we get random trips. Every second day or so usually towards sunset and one in the morning on Tuesday before sunrise. The earth leakage for the inverter is tripping and nothing on the main db? Electrician came out and strapped the earth and neutral yesterday hoping it would sort the problem out but it tripped again this afternoon. Anyone know what can be causing this?
  11. ACDC sell them. I purchased 2. Haven't installed them yet Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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