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Battery drains slowly after dod

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7 minutes ago, Chris_S said:

You must have grid box checked to hold the battery at set %. 

But i dont want it to charge from the grid. is it not possible for the inverter to just stop drawing any power from the battery and leaving it at the set SOC and rather switching over completely to grid?

5 minutes ago, ZCS said:

But i dont want it to charge from the grid. is it not possible for the inverter to just stop drawing any power from the battery and leaving it at the set SOC and rather switching over completely to grid?

Then the inverter will not hold the batteries. Even the batteries BMS and internal resistances will drain them slowly. If you don't want the grid to hold them then set SOC% a bit higher for more margin. 

4 minutes ago, Chris_S said:

Then the inverter will not hold the batteries. Even the batteries BMS and internal resistances will drain them slowly. If you don't want the grid to hold them then set SOC% a bit higher for more margin. 

Yeah thats what ive been doing. seems a bit silly though to be able to set a minimum SOC but the inverter will drop it below the so called minimum. if i want 30% SOC at 4am due to loadshedding i currently need to set my SOC at approximately 40% in order to be safe. 

Are you on the latest firmware ? i found my SOC dropping much slower after the upgrade ,i think they made it consume more of the stand by power from the grid than from battery.

24 minutes ago, ZCS said:

Yeah thats what ive been doing. seems a bit silly though to be able to set a minimum SOC but the inverter will drop it below the so called minimum. if i want 30% SOC at 4am due to loadshedding i currently need to set my SOC at approximately 40% in order to be safe. 

If you don't have PV you will pay the same one way or the other. It doesn't take a lot from the grid to hold the batteries. I would do that to be safe. 

8 minutes ago, Nexuss said:

Are you on the latest firmware ? i found my SOC dropping much slower after the upgrade ,i think they made it consume more of the stand by power from the grid than from battery.

Hi @Nexuss. just requested the upgrade earlier today. will see how it goes...

1 hour ago, ZCS said:

Yeah thats what ive been doing. seems a bit silly though to be able to set a minimum SOC but the inverter will drop it below the so called minimum. if i want 30% SOC at 4am due to loadshedding i currently need to set my SOC at approximately 40% in order to be safe. 

I hope your upgrade solves it. All devices with battery do in fact use battery power to be on alert to operate as you want it. You can't expert the battery not to provide the power or keeping it at the specified level not using from the grid.

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