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That depends on your installation. I have the E/N Bond installed by the inverter for when the grid fails. This is the normal setup that most people have. My generator is connected to the DB via a change over switch (not to the GEN port on the inverter). So when I change over to the generator on the DB, the inverter will see that as GRID and will not go into island mode (no E/N bond) I therefor have a E/N bond on the generator

Hi, Sorry. Only saw the post now. Glad you found it. Thank you

Finally got the generator to work properly. Hopefully this will help some else. Here is what I had to do 1. Connect the generator to the AUX port 2. Connect the AUX port earth to the earth on the GRID port. I do not have the generator connected to a earth spike. 3. Connect earth and neutral together on the generator 4. On AUX menu, tick Gen Input and tick Gen peak shaving and set the shaving value to 80% of your generator capacity. Then set Gen Load OFF to 95% and Gen Load ON to 80% (choose your own values that work for you) 5. On System menu, work mode 2, tick Zero Export, AND Limit to load. My generator would disconnect if Limit to load was not ticked. 6. On System menu, work mode 1, make sure the SOC for the time slot you are running your generator in, is set to 100% and tick GEN box to charge from generator. 7. On Battery menu, make sure the Charge Amps on Batt Type is the same as the Amps in the first block on the second screen Batt Charge. Also important is to make sure the charge amps is not set too high. Consider the power drawn from the generator to charge the batteries PLUS the power required to run the load and inverter. 8. Tick Gen Charge, Gen Signal and Signal Island mode on Battery menu under Batt charge. What a mission to figure all this out.

Hi, Please can you tell me what exactly you mean by sorting this out. Did you have a bridge of some sort to connect the earth and neutral? Did you connect the generator earth to the normal earth in the DB or did you earth the generator frame to a spike? I am really desperate. Thank you very much

Great! Thank you so much.

Hi all, I was wondering what automations you have created in Home Assistant for the Solarman data logger? I have my data logger connected to Home Assistant via https://github.com/StephanJoubert/home_assistant_solarman This works great! Then I was wondering: What automations the community setup for this combination? Let me know please.

Did you get sorted? I would re-install Home Assistant.

I also used this info to get Home Assistant to give me info from the data logger. Now to figure out some automations. Any suggestions welcome..... Thank you

Most of the trolley type inverter and battery setups have noisy fans. Not sure what to suggest. Where are they located?

Did you come right for Oom Johan?

Thank you