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SO are we saying that if I have a charging slot allocated then it wont discharge battery it will use mains? What is SOC of battery is above the SOC for charging. will it just not charge the battery and allow mains to supply?

can you pick a cycle time? sorry missed this somewhere? Setting a charge window is not an option as this charges the battery from mains. battery should charge from solar.. Unless you can set a charge window to a 20% SOC and it will not charge or use battery if it is above 20%? Then one can set the battery to a 1h charge window but with a very low SOC? To re-iterate. I dont want my battery to charge from mains. I want to supply solar power to my mains load i dont want to supply battery to my mains load I want to cycle my battery to my critical load at night.

issue is it will use grid during that time for critical loads... first prize for me is that mains only supplemented with solar, not with battery. that is all I want

not entirely true.. The MP2 uses phase shifting to detect grid failure and will then cut supply to the mains... The meter is not to prevent power to the mains side when there is no grid power. It is to prevent feedback into the grid. And this is also not accurate as it will not react fast enough if say a geyser switches off and all that power sits on the inverter on its way to the mains load...

if it is in, then it discharges the batteries to mains load.. Will play around a bit this afternoon...

I want to use the meter to monitor mains usage... So did not really want to remove it.

only solution at this stage is to remove the meter...

I hear you. but I dont get the mileage from this I would want... Will explain offline

Thanks. I figure as much. but feel that there should be an option to exclude battery discharge for this? On a day like today (overcast) my batteries would stay flat as they will discharge faster than they charge? The reason I feel the setting should be available is because the inverter quite happily does exactly this when no ET112 is installed?

With that setting I will not get benefit form my MPPT's during the day? Also keeping the Min SOC of batteries to 80% makes me not use then every night? Currently I cycle them at night to my critical load. My issue is that it works perfectly fine without the ET112. MPPT excess is fed into mains load...

So I have been operational for a week or so. But only rewired DB on saturday.. Multiplus II Venus GX MPPT 150/100 2x Pylontech US3000 ET112 Runs like a charm. If you look at the DB. from left to right. Mains Breaker, ET112, Geyser (Mains), Some plugs(mains), Timer (geyser) and then the load form the inverter. Lights and plugs. ps: yes still need to close busbar... waiting for a piece of plexiglass... Nice little hidden busbars for PV inputs I have one issues though.. I was running without the ET112 for a week. It would feed in to my mains load the excess MPPT without a problem. Now with the ET112 installed and hooked up it empties the battery as well to the mains load. That is no good... And I cant seem to find the setting that allows only MPPT excess to be fed into the main load... Dont want that hit on my battery bank..

got this to work eventually.. then been very busy for the week. I ended up connecting the Mk3 to the venus. this then picked it up. When I plugged it back in the laptop it worked as well.. No idea why..

SO I started today configuring my setup 1. VenuxGS - connected - updated - sorted 2. MPPT - Connected - updated - sorted 3. 2xPulontech US3000's - Connected - sorted - have one issue. power LED of one unit does not come on. all seems to operate as intended. VE.Cam Cable made up and working 4. Multiplus II - Conencted - Can see as device through Venus. MK3 - installed. VE Config picks up Usb-Mk3 but does not see the Multi. Am I missing something? Normal UTP cable right? Thanks!

That may prove difficult at the moment!

HI guys, do anyone know where one can find a set of stencils for victron kit or perhaps software that will assist with the layout of a board before assembly? thanks

seems it will be R8/kg collected... Not too bad..

they will get back to me.. got the feeling they want the batteries for free

my sentiments exactly... that almost pays for a pylontech us3000

OK, So lets say I have around 60 100ah deltec batteries I want to recycle but get the best return on.... Where can I do that in Centurion area? And what kind of return can I expect? It could fund some solar kit after all...

Thanks man. I was reading that thread most of yesterday evening

and.... I recon I will have to find another R11k to add a evacuated tube retro fit to my geyser... That may make the biggest diffs if I cant "tie"

welllll... speak to me about the parts and price Also where i can get. Wiring I can do myself... I still think I would probably need 3x3.4kw pylontechs for the night time load if I cant feed back to the grid.. Question is thus.. Does anyone have a drif tied inverter I can borrow for a day to see if I can "grid tie" I have 12x330w canadian solars... wired wired 3 serie/2 paralel x 2. Growatt has 2 charge inputs...

mine looks the same. I obviously dont have the grid tied bit.. So there is no solar feeding AC loads. This is what I want to achieve...

This is how I have mine wired currently. 3Plugs in the kitchen (where kettle used to be, microwafe, and iron) on Eskom along with geyser. But I want to get max mileage form my solar. Currently I have 1-1.5kwh of sunlight wasted

@plonkster I think my question is just that. It will take from the grid if load is over 2.4KW or solar/batteries are depleted correct? As in the 2.4KW isnt the limiting factor for total consumption of load hanging off inverter? I think this is where I dont understand. It I hang the load of the inverter, will the load be limited to 2.4kw or will it happily add from the grid to this and if so, how much? I want to place geyser between eskom and inverter because the geyser will hurt the inverter. The rest is OK... Will it feed back into the grid, thus giving me the ability to run part of the geyser off the inverter and perhaps all the geyser if the meter play along?