February 3, 20242 yr Good Evening All, not sure if the thread is still open however i am having issues with my MPPT that keeps going off on my inverter. I have a 8.5kwh fivestar inverter and have 12 x 555w panels connected in 2 rows of 6. I have to at times shut off the circuit breaker for the solar and then the system comes back and i get the full benefit of the sun. If i shut off Eskom them the panels and inverter performs well and i get the full benefit. is this perhaps a setting that i can change on my inverter?
February 13, 20251 yr On 2023/03/03 at 12:48 PM, ABDurbs said: I purchased that exact same model a month ago and so far I am very happy with it. Build quality is very good and it does exactly what I want it to do. The load I have on it is never over 400watt and mostly around 300watt. The downside is that there seems to be zero backup from Fivestar SA themselevs, they just never get back to you, and there is no load reading on the LCD panel. I purchased a digital watt meter from Geewiz and that works perfectly. The retailer did answer any queries I had. Like any inverter it needs to be installed in a well ventilated room otherwise it is going to overheat and you could have an issue. If I had spare R150k sitting in a cupboard I would be paying an expert to install a soalr unit, but I dont, so this will have to do for this pensioner now 😄 On 2023/03/03 at 12:48 PM, ABDurbs said: I purchased that exact same model a month ago and so far I am very happy with it. Build quality is very good and it does exactly what I want it to do. The load I have on it is never over 400watt and mostly around 300watt. The downside is that there seems to be zero backup from Fivestar SA themselevs, they just never get back to you, and there is no load reading on the LCD panel. I purchased a digital watt meter from Geewiz and that works perfectly. The retailer did answer any queries I had. Like any inverter it needs to be installed in a well ventilated room otherwise it is going to overheat and you could have an issue. If I had spare R150k sitting in a cupboard I would be paying an expert to install a soalr unit, but I dont, so this will have to do for this pensioner now 😄 Good day. Can you provide me with steps how to setup the menu to set it to charge from solar and to use solar instead of grid. I am having a hard setting up the menu. Thanks
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