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Solar enthusiast here

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Hi everyone

I am quite happy that I stumbled apon this forum. I have found some very useful information already.

A bit about my systems:

Hooked up to the house:
3KVA SRNE inverter
5 x 450W panels
1 x 24V Easton lithium battery

Running (or used to) my office:
1KVA ACDC Inverter (Asperix MKS)
1 x 330W Panel
2 x 12V Deep cycle lead acid battery's in series to make 24V

State of the systems:
The 3KVA system is a new install. Yes I do need to add another battery to the system as I run out of battery at 2am every day. (Budget only allowed for one at the moment)
The 1KVA is 5 years old and the batteries died on me in the last month. So I am in two minds at this stage, sell the system and buy another battery for the 3KVA or do I just replace the batteries on go on. Any wisdom or thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Extra:
I connected a raspberry pi to the 3KVA Inverter and put together a go lang app to read the modbus information. I collect it with prometheus and then display it with Grafana. Was a very fun little project. All is running on the Pi4 without any issues. Next is to push that information to Cloud IoT through MQTT.

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HI i am about to install my SRNE3kva in my house.am not sure how to connect the inverter to my existing plugs and light. by the way I am using 2 x 200ah agm batteries. 

can you help me with a diagram of some sort. i have 160 amp fuses between batteries and inverter and no solar panels yet.

Any help will be appreciated

18 hours ago, Ollie68 said:

HI i am about to install my SRNE3kva in my house.am not sure how to connect the inverter to my existing plugs and light. by the way I am using 2 x 200ah agm batteries. 

can you help me with a diagram of some sort. i have 160 amp fuses between batteries and inverter and no solar panels yet.

Any help will be appreciated

@Ollie68 It sounds like you are not familiar with electrical installations? I would rather contact an electrical contractor or solar installer than electrocute yourself or burn the house down. Even if i supply you with the drawing it is not that straight forward and not legal should you not be an installation electrician.

  • 2 weeks later...
On 2023/03/02 at 11:42 AM, KlaasvR said:

Extra:
I connected a raspberry pi to the 3KVA Inverter and put together a go lang app to read the modbus information. I collect it with prometheus and then display it with Grafana. Was a very fun little project. All is running on the Pi4 without any issues. Next is to push that information to Cloud IoT through MQTT.

Hi @KlaasvR,

Thank you for sharing your details with us, I would like to know more about what you did with the Raspberry Pi and connecting it to the inverter, I have been looking around and the information seems to be hard to come by. 

Do you mind sharing some more details with me.

 

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Howzit all. How are you finding your SRNE 3kva inverters... I am considering buying one soon so just checking on what you all think of their performance and quality? Any issues?

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On 2023/06/02 at 8:16 PM, semaj76 said:

Howzit all. How are you finding your SRNE 3kva inverters... I am considering buying one soon so just checking on what you all think of their performance and quality? Any issues?

I have one i'm using. Very efficient and does a great job. I even have panels connected with 2x24v lithiums. I've hooked up a data logger with software as well to monitor. I will definately recommend it. Great support via whatsapp and email as well.

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On 2023/06/13 at 11:13 PM, SolarDIY said:

I have one i'm using. Very efficient and does a great job. I even have panels connected with 2x24v lithiums. I've hooked up a data logger with software as well to monitor. I will definately recommend it. Great support via whatsapp and email as well.

Hey @SolarDIY

can you share ethe Whatsapp details for support, please?

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Hi to everyone onì the forum ,I hope anyone on the this platform can assist me,I bought LFP12200 leoch lithium batteries, I want to connect this batteries to the app on my cellphone ,the problem I'm having is the batteries BMS is connecting but is not communicating no data is showing, it looks like the batteries are on standby mode,but the batteries are connected to the system and are charging, how can I solve this problem

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