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I have recently installed an 8kW Deye hybrid inverter with ~6kW of panels and 2 3000C Pylontech batteries. It is grid-tied to Eskom - no generator. Now it's installed, when the sun goes down, I would expect that the Eskom supply would take over the house load supply. Instead, it is using battery power through the inverter at night, which is not ideal if loadshedding starts after one has used ovens/dishwasher etc in the evening, which will drop the battery levels. I cannot find a set of options in the inverter setup to allow a sequence of solar, grid, battery i.e. so the battery would only kick in last like during load shedding. I've read the Deye instructions, Googled sites and watched YouTube vidoes but I can't find a way to set it up for this solar, grid, battery sequence. So my questions to this forum are: 1) Is it normal/standard that the batteries will always be used (at least initially) for power to the house when solar is not available, at least until the batteries fall below a certain level? 2) If it is not standard, then how does one set the Deye inverter so it has a power sequence policy of solar, grid, battery? Many thanks