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Good day Does anyone have any experience or have installed a KODAK BL5 battery? Are they any good or should I just go with Pylontech UP5000. I'm busy planning my setup for my new house which will most likely consist of a KODAK OG-Plus 6.2kw inverter......I like the Voltronic type of inverters; Had no issues for the last 6 years with my MMPSolar at my current house......

Hi All I need some advice with regards to setting up my 2 Pylontec UP5000 batteries? The Hardware. 1. 2 off Pylontec UP5000 2. MPP Solar PIP 5048MK inverter 3 6 off 335W Canadian Solar Panels. Questions. 1. Should I leave the Dipswitches all on 0000? 2. As far as I understand; when the batteries are connected to the inverter via the RS485 port, I don't have to Manually input any settings on the Inverter, Is this true? If not, what should the basic settings be, Program 02, 05,12,13,26,27,29 etc? 3. Should the batteries be balanced first, if so , how would I do that? 4. What would the start up procedure look like? Thanks guys

Thanks Coulomb

Brand New Issue. Watch Power states that my inverter's Nominal output active power is 4000W, The "sticker" on the side state 5KW???? Supplier says that it has a 4KW Mother board and that a "Power factor Correction card" have been added to get it as close to 5kw as possible. Can this be true

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Ah great thanks. I thought that maybe the inverter BMS and the BMS of the Battery itself is not communicating with one another.

SO I have monitored the Battery yesterday from 17h30 up until this morning 05h43... 17h30 - Inverter running on Utility, Battery on 49.5v 19h20 - 49.2v ..., I decided to charge with utility power 20h00 - fully charged and on 51v float, at this stage I did switch the Utility charge off and the volts dropped to 50.3v 20h10 - 50.1v 21h30 - 49.2v 05h43 - 49..1v The discharge indicator on the battery itself was on during this 12 hour period We were on Utility the whole time. Does all it of this make sense.....I clearly do not understand Battery Chemistry ???

No parallel machines, but i do have the card in the inverter for parallel connection though...

Here is a photo of the software version

Thanks Coulomb I also realized now that it is a clone after reading the tread on "Clones"

Hi Thanks for the reply its much appreciated. Yesterday as well as this morning the inverter had issues going over to utility on a 2kw load and error "20" which is not in the manual occurred. Should we rather set the Inverter to Utility as first priority when running the Dishwasher or Tumble dryer? I have attached photos of the error as well as the inverter Model. thanks guys

We recently installed the following system: Axpert 5Kw Inverter 6 x Canadian 335w Solar panels 1 x Huawei 100ah 48v Battery Settings on inverter is as follows: 01: SOL 02: 30A 03: UPS 11: 30A 12: 49V (reason for 49V is that we don't use to much Battery power during the day) - Does it make sense to you guys ??? 13: 51V (Same as floating V) - is it fine like this?? 16: OSO - Should I add utility also? 26: 53.5V - (As per attached pic taken from the Huawei battery user manual ) - do you guys agree?? 27: 51V - (As per attached pic taken from the Huawei battery user manual ) - do you guys agree?? 29: 47V - Will 47V be about 70% DOD ?? Extra Questions: 1. For some reason the inverter is on "SL" status (Slave) and I don't know why? 2. When the Battery reaches 49.4v I get error "04" (Battery voltage to low) and the Battery Icon on the inverter screen is indicating 1 bar only?? 3. We can run the pool pump (750w) inc. the Fridge etc. total load of about 850 to 900w ......but as soon as the load is to much it struggles to go over to Utility immediately and basically cuts the power supply to the house (not tripping any earth leakages) and after about a minute it will switch over to Utility and start everything up again..... this only happens when the pool pump is on. Is it something to do with the pool pump trying to re-start again?? Guys your input will be much appreciated Please keep in mind that I'm not an Electrician or Solar expert and are new to this so please can we keep the inputs "Simple" ? Thanks