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Hey folks I'm at my wits end with trying to get an AMI/SSEG meter up. I got a quote/approval from the city but have been trying to find a company to come and even do a quote to get things rolling for a few months now but nobody that I mail seem interested. My understanding is that I need the three phase box with some innards installed (the city's guy sent a picture with instructions) - does anyone have contact details of someone they think might be able to help with this? I'd really appreciate it. We're in the Strand/Helderberg area but at this point I don't mind paying extra for distance.

Got the guys to come back and it seems the CT clamp was on the wrong wire. They've fixed it now and it looks to be back to normal (will see over the next few days). Still don't have data on how much load I'm getting from the grid though.

Going to be installing the (smartdeye)dongle soon (waiting for the dongle and a NUC to run HA off) but was wondering if anyone had some photos of what they did on their 5kw inverter setup since it doesn't have power inside the inverter. -- edit -- I see I posted in the wrong topic

This may be completely coincidental but I had a new battery installed and I assumed the guys had to change some settings for this too. Now the inverter randomly starts drawing the maximum load (5kW) from either the battery or AC and only stops if I flip the "To A/C Combiner" switch on my main DB. At that point the AC to the inverter goes away and I run completely from battery but the load on the inverter/battery stops immediately. Any ideas? This is what it looks like on the app, I got home at just after 10 and saw the load being 5kW at which point I flipped the switch and it wen't back to just powering what we have turned on in the house.

So my question is mainly around the fact that the battery is supposed to be a 5kw but only shows up as a 4kw (so already 20% that's not used) and then having it run down to a minimum of 20% which effectively gives you 3.2kw of a 5kw battery. I could just be misunderstanding though. So that's what I thought too. I can easily run the house and charge the battery during daylight hours regardless of whether I've set it to 40% or 100%. I think I'll change the setting back to what I had it as :).

Hi, first post and all I got a 5kw Sunsynk inverter and 5kw battery backup last year April and added some panels (10 x 545W) a few months later. This got us some savings although it'll obviously take a long time to get a full ROI. Also ended up getting another 5kw battery last week for some extra redundancy should we have another massive outage due to vandalized infrastructure etc. Being new to all of this I have some questions which I was hoping some of you folks would be able to help answer. I see various HA integration options in threads here but am not clear on whether any of them allows one to keep the integration with the Sunsynk app or whether everything is shifted to HA. Probably more of a question for a dedicated HA forum but in terms of adding data analysis or integrations with ESP/Weather is that common? The original installer seems to have closed his business or something so I'm struggling to get the system registered with CoCT. First step seems to be a CoC but it looks like noone wants to certify a system not installed by them Do I have any options here or am I stuck not being able to register the system and incur fines later on. As I understand it the batteries aren't supposed to go under 20% charge (do I have that number right?) but my batteries show up as a total of 8kw on the inverter. Is there a reason why the inverter should be set to shutdown at 20% then? I initially had the target state of charge set to be 40% from 12AM to 8PM which had the battery charge up nicely during the day and the house covered by the panels for most of the day. The guys installing the battery last week changed it to maintain 100% during the day and run down to 60% from 20:00 to the next morning. I assume I had some faulty logic when I set the target at 40% for the day but I for the life of me can't work out what the difference is. Looking forward to see if I can at least write some code once I've sorted out how to integrate with the inverter.