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Sorry to resurrect an old post. Would the following be compliant? - Dedicated 40A (or would 32A be better?) breaker in main DB. - 6mm2 cable in trunking from DB to garage. Around 5m in length. - Industrial plug with disconnect in garage. (no sub-DB) - 7kW EV charger connected to industrial plug

Nah, the solar feeds the house loads only. The EV charger will be separate.

I've just purchased a BYD Dolphin Surf with 38kWh battery. It came with a plethora of charging goodness ranging from 7kW wall charger, 3kW plug in mobile charger, EV to load cable and an EV to EV cable. Currently I've just plugged the mobile charger in and seems to charge decently well, enough that should be able to charge from 10% to 100% in around 12 hours. While the mobile charger should be fine, I would like to install the wall charger though, and initially I thought this would be straight forward, but pretty much everything I have read seems to indicate requiring municipal permits. Is this really the case or will a CoC on completion suffice (I am no electrician, but am friendly with one who is happy to validate anything I do.) Anyway, municipal permits aside, I wouldn't easily be able to add a dedicated 40A circuit to the main DB, however there is an external board where power enters the property into a breaker and then to the main DB. Would I be able to feed from this point into the garage (literally through the wall) where I could install a small DB dedicated to the charger with the required RCD, main breaker, surge protector etc? Thanks

Got a cable custom made for me by a local PC guys. Used Billy's cable layout from the mentioned thread and instant BMS recognition. Inverter 2 -> Pylontech 6 Inverter 4 -> Pylontech 4 Inverter 5 -> Pylontech 5

Thanks, I did read that already, and it was useful, but I'd rather buy a correct cable than be hacking at cables or having to go out and purchase RJ45 crimping kits.

I recently purchased a Deye 5kV inverter to replace my aging RCT MKS 4kV inverter, mostly because the RCT is relying on a Pi for monitoring, and I was starting to see some really strange battery behavior, ie SOC would be at 100% and instantly drop to 40% and then back up to 100% over and over again until I reset the Pi and all was good again. I don't know what the issue was and I didn't delve more deeply into it other to verify the actual SOC was really at 100% and not bouncing up and down. Anyway, this last weekend I started setting up the Deye, plugged in the Deye provided CAN cable, and no BMS. Eventually I tried connecting each battery to the inverter by itself and the 2 older US3000 batteries report BMS fine with the cable, but the 2 newer US3000C refuse, and this is a problem because the C is the master. To cut a long story short, what cable do I need? I don't really mind if it's CAN or RS485, just as long as I can get the BMS reporting to the inverter working. Thanks

I'd rather not pair such an old inverter with a "new" one, and highly doubtful I'd find the same exact same model to do so. Space is also a limiting factor as I cannot fit two side by side with appropriate spacings between. Is your advice based on any inherent problems with the Kodak?

So I've been running with my RCT Axpert MKS-5000 for at least 7 years now. I've been thinking of a slight upgrade to basically allow installation of more panels, get some more available kW for running the house, and some QoL features wouldn't go amiss. I saw the Kodak 6.2kW (OG-PLUS6.2) on the PowerStore which I think fits the bill. Anyone have any experience with these? Are they basically just fancier newer Axperts, or are they different animals entirely? Any feedback would be appreciated.

I'm interested in what field you're studying? And also, done.

Aaah, saw that section in the manual, but couldn't see those options in the menu setup pages. I didn't want to enable hybrid mode as it looked like it was for grid export, at least according to the confusing screenshots and lack of wording. Will investigate. However, without going into that section it seems to be doing what I want by working with some of the main menu options. Not sure why the bms charge limit is at 0, was set to 70.

I recently installed a LuxPower SNA5000 and 2 Pylontech US3000C batteries for my father-in-law, and it's been functioning great. This week we added 4kW of PV, but for the life of me, I can't get the inverter to use solar as first priority, then battery and then only grid if the first two are not available. I'm used to a RCT Axpert MKS inverter which allows this, but this Luxpower has me stumped. Anyone out there with a similar setup and running it like I want to, able to share their settings? Thanks in advance.

I've just upgraded my battery bank 2 Pylontech US3000B's with additional 2 US3000C batteries. My existing 2 batteries had been in use for nearly 3 years now with about 550 cycles on them. Now when I check in ICC, the cycles on all 4 batteries is showing as zero. Is this normal?

Who is your email provider/ISP? This type of scam happened to my father last year, and my suspicion is that it's an inside job at the ISP.

Looks like we've found a USB module. Hopefully it's the correct one.

I was online with Johan, the developer of SMH when we tried, and no luck. I'll chat with him more about using my system as a guinea pig if he can add RJ45 serial as a connection option.