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JacquesV

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. If it is a "AXPERT KING 5KW" the round power button on the removable display might be pressed causing it to go on bypass.
  5. Thanx a mil. Will try to get it running as soon as I have a bit of time.
  6. 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.
  7. Will try to remove mosquitto and set up new broker and then try to listen to ICC mqtt broker.
  8. 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...
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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".
  12. No problem I ran my system as an UPS for couple of months before adding PV, not regretting it at all.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. Hi All. I have one 48V 100Ah Narada lithium battery in service with 366 cycles, bought from Full Circle Solar in March 2020 . I want to upsize by adding another battery. I would like to buy another of the same if any available. Or sell the one I have and buy Hubble AM2 batteries. The battery was discharged to average of 35% using ICC Solar. I someone is interested what would be a fair price to sell or buy such a battery? Thanx
  16. Hi Johan I'm also using an Axpert King 5kVA inverter with 1 Narada 48NPFC100 battery for a year now. The inverter settings are set to the same values as some Pylons, believe both to be 15 cell batteries. I do however use a Raspberry PI with ICC to control the inverter according to the Narada's SOC, obtained through ICC, (back to grid & back to discharge settings are usauly set lower and higher as not to interfere with SOC setting inverter mode). Attached are the setting mostly used. As well as some correspondence regarding the Narada's communication protocol, by Hector from DARTCOM, The Narada importer. "Attached is the protocol for the battery, I am not sure if you will be able to use it. Voltronic, the manufacturer of the Axpert inverters, are busy doing integration and should be available soon. The settings that we have recommended for the Axpert are as below: Axpert Inverter settings Settings for the 48V100Ah lithium are Item No. Setting Value Program 02 Set to N*40A for 100ah Program 05 Set to USE Program 12 Set to 46V Program 13 Set to 49V Program 26 Set to 51.6V ( bulk) Program 27 Set to 51.5V (Float) Program 29 Set to 46V ( low V cut off) Hector King | Product Manager Power Switchboard: +27 (0) 12 345 7530 Extension: 7536 Fax: +27 (0) 12 3457600/1 Cell: +27 (0) 83 625 1985 E-mail: [email protected] Twenty One Industrial Estate 6 Padstone Street Sterkfontein Ext 9 Olifantsfontein 1666 " Hope this can be of help to anyone. SHINWA_PROTOCOL_V11 BMS.pdf
  17. Did anyone on the forum ever dealt with " https://apacheopitics.co.za/index.php "? Just received a quote from them, on 12 x 345w panels and the price is really good.
  18. What ever the market was. it drastically increased since Friday and stage 2...
  19. Thanx for the replies, but they do not have stock, it's on back orderand might only arrive mid May. I opted to buy a Narada 4.8kw unit, from full circle which do have stock on hand.
  20. Good day all. Do anyone know of suppliers who recieved Pylontech stock during the lock down, or who are expecting stock soon? Looking forward to your replies.
  21. I'm very far from knowledgeable enough to give you such advice, but there's a lot of people with wealth of knowledge, hopefully some will be able to answer accurately.
  22. Hi I'm going to put only the plugs and light circuits on the inverter, except the air-cons and stove and geyser, so we are talking about maybe: +/- 10 x led lights, (70w x +/- 4 hours a day. = 0.28kw/h) 1 x microwave that's very rarely used. (900w x 0.5 hours a day. = 0.5kw/h) 1 x led tv with hifi system. (300w x +/- 4 hours a day. = 1.2kw/h) 2 x cellphone chargers. 1 x pc. (150w x +/- 1 hours a day. = 0.15kw/h) 1 x wifi router. 1 x fridge freezer combo. (360w x +/- 6 hours a day. = 2.1kw/h) 1 x chest freezer. (300w x +/- 6 hours a day. = 1.8kw/h) hair dryer being used very seldom. later on I will expand to 2 kva inverters running in parallel, if the system can not handle the 0.25kw pressure pump (0.25 x 2hrs/day = 0.5kw/h) and 0.75kw (0.75 x 2hrs/day = 1.5kw/h) pool pump, running only when PV is sufficient. so in total we looking at +/- 8kw of load, but it will never be that much at any giving time, as well my calculations might be wrong as well. Hope I could answer what you were looking for.
  23. So with the lock down and everything, it seems my installation is on hold, even tough I would have done 99% of it myself. Hopefully I can manage not to spend the funds on other stuff. Just wondering how soon the Axpert King and Pylon batteries will be in stock in RSA again (and even then how long before it could be delivered to the public). Good luck for the difficult times ahead especially for the guys with their small businesses. Hope you all survive this economy of the years to follow. SA wont be the same without you.
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