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PsyWulf

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  1. Delaying solves 1 of their major obvious headaches - trips due to inrush of loads when power is restored to an area It doesn't fix the 2nd issue and the cause of Loadshedding - being they need to "shed" a certain amount of load from the network due to capacity constraints - Battery-only inverters/powerbanks etc worsen that
  2. That's an Axpert-style screen,but Fivestars can be iffy (other poster noted it may read as a Growatt) You'd likely have to remove the Dongle and connect a serial-to-usb cable to a Solar-assistant Pi to read it
  3. PsyWulf replied to Wesley.Davids's topic in Batteries
    Your shutdown % is 35% there,lower that to whatever you want it to cut off at (20%?)
  4. Are you using a custom "app password" or just your Gmail password you sign in with? If the app (ie ICC) doesn't support "Modern Authentication" then your normal password won't work as mentioned above
  5. There's a % loss between Load vs Inverter AC (for most people that's about 10% of their normal grid usage),but the screenshot shows your big issue. Charging to 100% after loadsheds,that battery charge has its own loss,and usage from battery to AC is also lossy. So you're compounding 10%-20% losses everywhere Most people avoid that by using Solar-charge only for instance so as to avoid AC charging and all it's losses (if your panels can cover your base load and charging of course)
  6. This won't combine the phases though
  7. You're not answering the questions Either the batteries are running flat,or something is set very wrong
  8. Ah alright,you'll need to install a 3-phase to single-phase transformer before the load then to combine phases
  9. Are you confusing multiple inputs and multiple phases possibly? Or is the Main DB 3 phase and has 3 phases into your Sub DB?
  10. No,you can't switch and combine phases like that Why do you have such low amperage phases? This makes zero sense
  11. Running Split Phase mode (not connecting the Current Sharing cable)
  12. You won't be able to sync them from 2 phases,you can run them as 2 seperate inverters on 2 phases but this isn't making sense,how won't a single phase be enough? Or is the issue you need to back up 2 phases?
  13. Your batteries can generally provide as much power as they have,whether you use it in an hour or a night. Settings changes won't really "fix" that Are they getting fully charged? How many discharge cycles have they had? Their dept-of-discharge? Very easy to damage them. Could also be 1 (or more) bad batteries in the pack - your bank is as strong as the weakest battery
  14. Pretty sure we've seen this specific fake panel model make the rounds on here on PF and Mybb months ago
  15. You'll find much of the forum is using it
  16. You could do this with an ATS like above + a Smart Breaker to cut power from the inverter output to your non-essential loads' "Inverter" input at the ATS,that would force it to revert to Eskom
  17. There's a hacky hack somewhere on the forum here on how to enable SSH access to get into it When mine started doing the same it was due to the SD Card being on it's way out. Backup the DB,format and reload and see?
  18. What frequency RF? There are smart-bridges for RF on Tuya and Sonoff afaik
  19. In fact,the only places I can find even talking about this are obscure tiny sites referencing The Debrief. Like really brah Only one falling for Chinese propaganda is you
  20. Like..."The Debrief" is now Mainstream Media? Modina you need a psychiatrist...or an exorcist

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