Plaashaas

Good morning all I am adding a second Kodak King in parallel. They will share 4x US3000 battery bank. Do I really need or must have an AC supply to the 2nd inverter?

It is plug & play. The Kodak King comes standard with Pylontech port & cable. Really simple

How long has it been working fine? Have you always had the Pylontech on?

Hi Coulomb Thx. Just remember that my inverter is the Kodak King. So how do I cap the Voltage at 115V then? Solar Charger Type: MPPT. Maximum PV Array Power: 4000 W. MPP Range @ Operating Voltage: 60 VDC ~ 115 VDC. Maximum PV Array Open Circuit Voltage: 145 VDC. Maximum Solar Charge Current: 60 A. Maximum AC Charge Current: 60 A..

Thank for the reply. I suspect it is related to the then lad acid batteries. It has not happened since I connected the Pylontech on Tuesday.

My question is why would the PV input drop to 0 when there is a load of 3kW. The setting at this stage is SUB so the battery should not have an influence on this?

You missed the part where I mentioned it's Lead Acid battery. 😉

Hi Coulomb At this stage the inverter is set to SUB. I am only getting my Pylontech today so this was with lead acids. I will change to SBU with the new Pylontech. With the King, when set to SUB, it should first use all the available power for the load and only "fill in" what is short from utility, if any. So that is why I cant understand the PV input dropping to 0? (It only returned to PV when I temporary switched off Utility)

There is a Wind Turbine in Glenvista (Comaro rd) and on Friday I stopped at the guys house. I was about 20m from it and could not hear anything. (And yes it was spinning) Could it be model dependent?

Hi Guys I have changed my Inverter from the Mecer (SOL-I-AX-5M) to the Kodak King. I just could not take the "laziness" of the Mecer anymore. Yesterday something weird happend. Any Ideas? Also I am looking for 3x330W Canadian Solar panels (CS6U-330P) but cant seem to find stock.If anyone has please let me know. (Gauteng area) I have also picked up some weird production from 9x330W panels: In theory the panels should at best produce 2970W (100%)

Good morning guys. Thank you for the replies. Sparkie is coming on Saturday to change panel configuration (And adding 3 more) to 2S6P. I also tested al 4 batteries and one is at 8.4V. The other three is 13+. These batteries are a month old. Why would one be defective? From factory?

I checked again and is definitely in SBU setting. But still it would switch over to Utilty and and not back again (unless the load drops ridiculously low, +-300W) I tested it yesterday around 14:00 by switching off Eskom and then running some of my pumps at 2.8kW. The system could do it. When I switch on Eskom again it would drop the Solar. At this stage I am considering leaving Eskom off to get some sort of return on investment. Can I do this? If the load is too much for the inverter, will it just trip? And will it restart on its own? You are correct, Coulomb. I am thinking of changing it to 2S6P when adding another 3 panels. (I have that space on my frame) Yesterday I added an old Laptop with Watchpower that will now monitor the system to see what is happening during weekdays when I am not there. Thank you for all the replies and advise.

Hi guys. I feel like I should start this post like an AA meeting..... Hi my name is Plaashaas...... Some of my friends were doing it.....I tried a little one day, then some more, now I cant get enough. Think I will steal my mother in law's car to buy more Solar! If only I found this site sooner I would have made better choices on my startup system. With time, and this very cool forum, it will get better. The amount of knowledge and expertise here is overwhelming and I now know that really don't know anything. For now what I have: 9x330W Canadian Solar Mecer Axpert SOL-I-AX-5M ..........Yes I know ;-( 4x Royal 1150K 105Ah (Should have gone Pylontech) Watchpower monitoring (Sort of, I need to permanently install old laptop at inverter) My biggest concern is the way the panels was connected by the electrician. 6 in series, 3 in series, these 2 strings in parallel. The Max PV Array OCV is 145VDC. Does this make sense? I am in the process of shopping for 3 more panels bring me to 12 total. But I see on the online spec sheet that the MAX PV ARRAY is 3000W, Does this mean I have maxed already with the 9x330W? The other problem I have is the the inverter will switch to utility when there is say a big cloud moving over. After the cloud passed it will not switch back when the PV can handle the load? I have done it manually before by switching off the utility input and the inverter was happy with the load. Does this switch over just take some time or is this a setting issue? Thank you for a great forum.