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Jacques Ester

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  1. Even with the inverter set to Pylon you can still set the shutdown voltage. To be save I would change the Shutdown voltage to 46.5V or 47V. According my graphs of Pylontech batteries at 46V I am normally on 10% state of charge. This may differ from your batteries.
  2. Contact @steve87. He knows the Voltronic inverters. He will be able to guild you.
  3. Nice and clean installs.
  4. @Steve87 maybe he can assist
  5. This is seen as a temporary install seeing that everything can plug in. No need for a COC
  6. The volt rating on a breaker isn't the value that it will trip on. A breaker only trips on Amps. The voltage is the safe working voltage the breaker can handle and not flashing over the contact gap.
  7. You can contact @Steve87. Maybe he can assist.
  8. You can open die Db and check if there is more than one circuit connect to the 1 Breaker. If there is 2 circuits split them and only connect the 1 to inverter via a smaller breaker that will trip if any higher amp equipment is connected. The other option is to install a additional plug with a low amp breaker from inverter.
  9. Jacques Ester replied to Swannie's topic in Kodak
    Hi Swannie. I assume you are running the Battery with User settings. The voltage curve of Lithium is very flat. Using the voltage settings will give you a low voltage warning. I am unsure if the Kodak can be setup to talk to the Shoto BMS. This will also give your inverter a battery idea of the state of charge and control your charge voltage.
  10. This will depend on the size off your battery and the load during the morning time. My load is very low during the morning. I have 3 x 3000C Pylontech batteries. Here is mine
  11. This is not my issue. I have 3 batteries requesting 90A charge. Inverter is setup with Batt BMS. It is asking for 90 but only getting 42A currently. 12 x 335W J Solar panels.
  12. Luxpower have a fanless 5kW inverter
  13. Nothing wrong with the way it was installed if the battery cables are the same length.
  14. I would say buy an 5kw inverter and add 2 more later for a 3 phase system if needed.
  15. LV =Low Voltage. Normally 48 and connected in Parallel. HV= High Voltage. These are used in series to get n higher voltage for the 50KW inverter.
  16. Our mine is also loadshedding free but do get request to shed load. This means we need to shut down some of our modules. Eskom is also not allowed to just switch off because off our contract. If they do it will take us more than 2 weeks to start up again and Eskom will have to pay penalties.
  17. Well then you have definitely not been shocked by a neutral. There are a lot of equipment that can create backfeeds. I would always use a double pole breaker to isolate both live and neutral.
  18. Frequency dropped to 49.3Hz this morning. Not good.
  19. You cant put 2 E/L in series. The upstream one will trip. This sounds quite normal. An extra db is fed by a double pole breaker and then each Db has its own E/L.
  20. You can send @Steve87 an Pm or have a look on the internet for Loadfed.

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