JacquesV

Thank you all for the feedback. I now feel I can go ahead... @GerhardK83 the panels are already installed, the plan is to remove the panels one at a time and cut the hole (using as much precautionary measures as possible) for those faceplates you mentioned, there is properly rounded off access holes in the building (steel) structure from the ceiling area to between the panels. So the data cables will be run through these holes, keeping as much separation from electrical cable as as possible (the cables will still have to cross over electrical cables in the ceiling space) while the panels are removed (lekker easy access). The panels will then be refitted and painted, the face plated fitted. And then no other holes will be drilled so basically no danger of damaging the cables, this is what I meant by my statement that no holes will be drilled into these panels. @JustinSchoeman this specific cables wouldn't be POE, but I do plan to run cables to the corners of the home for CCTV which ideally I would like to be POE, but that's the next project.

Good day all I'm planning to retro-fit CAT 6 cables to some rooms in my home. Ideally cables will run in ceiling space and come down between fiber-cement wall panels (inner walls) terminating in RJ45 faceplates (2 cables per room). Is there any regulations, like, needs to run in certain type of conduit in ceiling pace and between panels, should be terminated in enclosed box behind faceplate. There will be no drilling into this specific panel for health and safety reasons afterwards. Can I just fit the faceplates without backplates and run cables between these panels into the ceiling? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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Yes indeed it does. If switch is pressed in, it goes to battery mode when mains fail, depressed the load disconnects or switches off. With ByE the load is powered by mains and not the inverter losing mains the load disconnects and does not use battery power through the inverter (hopes this makes sense). I never changed setting 23 via ICC or ICM, don't think it can be set via these control systems, but I might be wrong.

If it is a "AXPERT KING 5KW" the round power button on the removable display might be pressed causing it to go on bypass.

Thanx a mil. Will try to get it running as soon as I have a bit of time.

I have set up Home Assistant MQTT Broker as "core broker" but it still does not receive any published data from ICC MQTT broker. Using MQTT explorer I can only receive data on $SYS/#" which suggest to me that the ICC Broker is running, but no other data (such as "Inverter/LoadWatts, ect.") is being published by the ICC broker. This then seems to be a problem I need to solve within the ICC PI system, of which I definitely don't have the necessary knowledge to do on my own. If only Solar Assistant had Static IP available yet if would have been an easy switch to make 🙄 Thank you very much for the assistance to far.

Will try to remove mosquitto and set up new broker and then try to listen to ICC mqtt broker.

Thank you for the attempting to assist, I will try to answer with as much detail as possible. I have the Mosquito broker configured to use the ICC PI MQTT built in broker, so the broker* is set to the PI (static)IP address, and port, username and password, as per the ICC MQTT port, username and password as displayed in ICC Solar settings tab. It does seem to connect, I do not get any errors. But that is up to where I manage to get. I do not get any "Topics" when "Listening" while Subscribing to topics and publishing payloads does not change anything as expected to. Still no errors up to this point, but no reaction as well. I might be missing something simple...

Good day all. Is there anybody running Home Assistant and ICC Solar with MQTT integration? I looked through the older posts, but I can not get the MQTT "connection" to work. I have managed to get a Tesla Style Power card to work with the Local EMONCMS values from the ICC PI. Home Assistant is running on a VM, the ICC PI only runs the Programs installed by the ICC image. Any pointers and or guide will be much appreciated.

Good day It does indeed look like a Voltronic KING. The "serial ports" are the parallel board connections (for running more than one inverter in parallel) The "LAN port" under the computer Icon is a RJ45 connections to RS232 (serial) connection to PC. I use https://www.takealot.com/mecer-usb-to-1-serial-9-pin-port/PLID35668474 to update Inverter Firmware. The "LAN port" under the Battery Icon is a RJ45 connection to certain Battery BMS. (Not using this so can't give more info) I'm using PI with ICC Solar and a https://www.robotics.org.za/W17286 to connect to a Narada 48npfc100 Battery. As for Invertor connection to PI, I use a normal micro USB cable connected to the USB port next to BMS RJ45 port. Hope this helps.

Just to confirm, the Inverter did not change over to battery when the Grid was lost? Was there any warning or fault indications on the batteries? Was the removable panel displaying "bypass" before load shedding kicked in? Also try to set "output source priority" to "online" in the inverter settings tab. I never experienced such a problem, with or without ICC running. I will go through all my setting tomorrow morning when I'm home and report back so that you can compare. If nobody else comes to the rescue before then. Settings I do remember 01 > USB (as you do not have PV connected yet) 02 & 05 > will be set according to your battery setup. 06 > Enable (auto restart after overload) 09 > 50hz 10 > ONL (online) 12 & 13 (set in ICC) 23 > Enable (bypass / eco mode) Can you confirm that the inverter is set to "master" (H) and not "slave".

No problem I ran my system as an UPS for couple of months before adding PV, not regretting it at all.

I believe it will only switch back to Grid when SOC is at 20%, according to your settings. It seems like your setup is acting as an UPS only, with no PV connected, is this correct? If so I would not even use the "SOC and Time control" settings, to limit battery discharge, and use as little Grid power to re-charge the battery after load-shedding. please confirm is the unit reverted to USB after "SOC setting" was disabled.

Good Morning. What is you setting under the "Battery" tab? Is the "time" and/or "SOC" control not perhaps set to change the invertor mode?