deonholt

Good morning. Just some feedback. I changed the Batt Type to USE and changed charging & floating voltages as suggested and removed the COMS cable. Battery shows 100% and everything seems good. Thank you very much for your patience & help. Mush appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. In my head, and maybe it is because I am wired like that: If the book/manual recommends something, I lean towards that rather that something else. So, the question in my head: "By changing battery type to User, will it not be less efficient than choosing Lithium and let the inverter's BMS handle the charging of the battery?" I have two Hi-5 batteries but disconnected the one to first see if I can find the problem with one, resolve it and then connect the other again. By changing battery type to "Use", will I still need the coms cable between the batteries themselves and between the batteries and the inverter? I really appreciate your time and help together with @Antonio de Sa . Thanks very much.

Thanks for the reply. I use the cable supplied by HINA. The only think I am not 100% sure about, is the protocol for the battery. I will keep on searching. Thanks very much.

Thanks. I changed it to 100% and it now sites at 85%. What bugs me is that it still uses battery even though I have setting 1 (Output source priority) at UTI. I will keep on trying.

Hi again. I have not sorted this out completely. Battery type, setting 05 = Li 005 I need to force the inverter to charge my battery to 95%. I have two x HINA ESS Hi-5 5kW batteries but disconnected one for this. I am only running one and see if I can force the inverter to charge it to 95% in setting 13. For some reason I don't understand it doesn't go past 81%. Settings: 01: SUB (for some reason the charging keeps switching between Charging and Batt output) 02: Max AC Charge current: 60A 12: B2AC : 35% 13: AC2B : 95% 14: SNU I need to change the settings no charge the battery to 95% as first priority and it can use solar/and or utility, as long as charging is the first priority. I will appreciate it if you can assist in pointing out what I am doing wrong. Much appreciated.

Hi. Yes, 14 has SNU. Setting one has SOL, SBU, SUB and Uti. I will change all accordingly. Thanks for your time & help.

Good afternoon and thanks for your help. I have this inverter with 2 x 5kW (200Ah) lipo batteries. A month or so you guys helped me to change the settings so that I can get the best economics out of my setup. It makes a noticeable difference on electricity consumption. Here are the settings: 1 : SOL 12: b2AC - 25% 13: AC2B - 70% 14: OSO This means the batteries only charge to 75%. We battle in our area with unexpected power outages. This has happened at, let's say 16:00 and power only came back on the next day. In the light of this, I need to be able to randomly, because we never know when it happens, to have the batteries fully charged by 17:00. I am battling to find the correct settings for this. When I got the inverter I remember I had setting 1 on SBU or SOL; I cannot remember. It changed over to the batteries and solar till the sun sets and utility charged it to 100%. But now I cannot get the inverter charging the batteries past 79%. And there is no setting with that value. Will you kindly please help me with the correct settings to have the batteries charged to 100%? 95% is also good. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Your suggestion to lower the 95 worked perfect. Thanks.

Ahh, ok, thanks. I will change accordingly and get back to you.

Good morning. Based on my question and all the replies, this is what I currently have: #1 : SOL #12 : 25% #13 : 95% #14 : OSO Battery currently (08:53) at 78% and also uses UTIL to charge. Is there something else or are these settings wrong? I don't want to use AC during the day. I can change settings remotely should I need to. Thanks for your help & advice.

Thanks for the reply. No, unfortunately not enough to last through the night. Thanks for confirming OSO. Makes sence. Didn't think about it like this.

Very happy 1st October to all. Oktober, die mooiste, mooiste maand. (CJ Langenhoven) Setup: 2 x 100AH Li-PO batteries (48v) 6 x 550W panels I want to use as little as possible utility. Current Settings on my menu: 1: SUB & 14: SNU I initially has #1 on Solar. So, the inverter changed over to solar as soon as it detects sunlight and changes back to utility when it is dark. The problem here is that it then uses utility to charge the battery to 95%. It then uses more electricity to get it full again than what I saved during the day by using solar & batteries. I also tried setting #49 where I set the time that utility must charge the batteries. I never could this to work. Is there someone out here who can help me with optimal settings for this inverter and setyp. This inverter does not have the BMS that other inverters have where I can set it to be fully charged by 17:00 or something like that. Thanks so long.

Hi again. I have my second Lithium battery now for a bit more than 24 hours. #1 SBU #12 40% (Voltage point back to utility) #13: 95% (Voltage point back to utility) #14: SNU (Charger source priority) I'm battling to find the thing to work as I need it to ... and the cloudy weather the past few days don't help. Today I also involved setting the charging times. I've learned that it won't use utility to charge in the set time if battery voltage does not drop below 40%. the one time it did, it did not charge batteries to 95% as set in #13. It stopped charging even it has not reached the end of the time frame set in #49. I noticed that and the battery voltage was 54%. Nowhere did I set something like that or close to that. For now I need to know how to set the inverter that it must charge the batteries to 95% before 23:00. By doing this, I know that it will carry our "night-load" till sunrise where solar will then top up the batteries enough for the day. Maybe I understand the settings wrong. For the last 3 months we only had the one 100Ah battery which I knew will not take us through the night. I had #1 on SOL and #14 at SNU. It started charging the battery to 100% with sunset and changed to solar with sunrise. But now, with the second battery, I want to take as much as possible from the sun, as little as possible from utility to get the batteries to 95% and then use only battery to carry us through the night. Apologies for all the questions. I need to understand how the settings work and if some setting(s) always has priority over another. Thanks so much. Deon (On the attached graph you will see that utility did not switch off after the battery was full and charging went on well after 23:59 since that was the time set to stop charging with utility. At 02:00 the batteries were sitting at 90% which would've taken us to sunrise when solar was supposed to take over, but it didn't.)

Thanks very much for your reply. I will definitely give your option #1 settings a go. My ideal situation is to use daylight to run our house which is about 600W average and weekend daytime more. But I want to use Eskom as little as possible to top up the batteries. Thanks again.

I have a GeyserWise timer on which I can also set the temperature. Thanks for the advice.