May 3, 20233 yr Hi all, just a quick question. On a rainy day, and load shedding during the day, with very little power coming from my PV, is there a remote setting to be able to conserve my available SOC for the evening? In other words, if we have LS from 14h till 16h00, can I tell my invertor not to supply the house for those 2 hours from the batteries, so I can maintain my SOC for when its dark, rather just switch the house off for 2 hours, especially if no one is home. this is assuming the PV is not producing enough power to cover the load/majority part load, ie heavy rains thank you,
May 3, 20233 yr 3 minutes ago, BruceK said: Hi all, just a quick question. On a rainy day, and load shedding during the day, with very little power coming from my PV, is there a remote setting to be able to conserve my available SOC for the evening? In other words, if we have LS from 14h till 16h00, can I tell my invertor not to supply the house for those 2 hours from the batteries, so I can maintain my SOC for when its dark, rather just switch the house off for 2 hours, especially if no one is home. this is assuming the PV is not producing enough power to cover the load/majority part load, ie heavy rains thank you, yes you can - you can either disable time of use which will top up your batteries from the grid and run the house from the grid OR you can set a min SOC on the time of use screen (with TU enabled) then tick grid charge - system will maintain that % SOC
May 3, 20233 yr Author Thanks for the reply, I have got that figured out, as you mention above. What I am trying to figure out is how to maintain my SOC, when there is no grid
May 3, 20233 yr 9 minutes ago, BruceK said: Thanks for the reply, I have got that figured out, as you mention above. What I am trying to figure out is how to maintain my SOC, when there is no grid Sorry i keep misreading your request So you want the system to not use batteries during LS while there is low PV? I am not sure that is possible Edited May 3, 20233 yr by mzezman
May 3, 20233 yr Author Yes, that is my question. So for example, say we have a 2 day grid failure, and very low PV (rain). Can I tell the system not to use my batteries in the day, and then use them when I need, at night? Thanks for the help,
May 3, 20233 yr 13 minutes ago, BruceK said: Thanks for the reply, I have got that figured out, as you mention above. What I am trying to figure out is how to maintain my SOC, when there is no grid Make sure your batteries have enough SOC before loadshedding to get you through that period if your PV is low on that day. Once your grid is gone you will automatically use battery
May 3, 20233 yr 1 minute ago, BruceK said: Yes, that is my question. So for example, say we have a 2 day grid failure, and very low PV (rain). Can I tell the system not to use my batteries in the day, and then use them when I need, at night? Thanks for the help, Only way is to switch the load off. If no grid the batteries will discharge until the system shuts down.
May 3, 20233 yr Author Ok thanks, thats what I was thinking as well, but then that cant be done remotely I dont think, ie if away on holiday, switch off and then back on. If at home, then its a simple hardware switch.
May 3, 20233 yr 3 minutes ago, BruceK said: Ok thanks, thats what I was thinking as well, but then that cant be done remotely I dont think, ie if away on holiday, switch off and then back on. If at home, then its a simple hardware switch. If I was going away on holiday I would set SOC to 100% with grid charge. Then your batteries can stay as full as possible if the grid fails. You'll also be using far less electricity. You can leave geysers off ect and hopefully the little PV you get can mostly cover the load.
May 3, 20233 yr Author 6 minutes ago, Chris_S said: If I was going away on holiday I would set SOC to 100% with grid charge. Then your batteries can stay as full as possible if the grid fails. You'll also be using far less electricity. You can leave geysers off ect and hopefully the little PV you get can mostly cover the load. That's good advice, thank you.
May 3, 20233 yr You might be able to force the inverter to power off the load side by remotely changing the shutdown/low batt/restart soc. The only issue is that you won't be able to re-enable the inverter as your WiFi/internet will be off 😞 A better approach is to bump up the SoC on System mode 1: I've been in a situation where it was overcast the whole day and then had a grid outage at 17h00 which lasted the whole night. The normal 20% SoC only lasted 4.5h and we went dark at about 22h30. I've changed the 16:00 slot to 35% to have a bigger buffer in the evening. At 16:00, if SoC < 35%, the inverter will use grid to bump to 35% SoC. Edited May 3, 20233 yr by system32
May 3, 20233 yr Author 17 minutes ago, system32 said: You might be able to force the inverter to power off the load side by remotely changing the shutdown/low batt/restart soc. The only issue is that you won't be able to re-enable the inverter as your WiFi/internet will be off 😞 A better approach is to bump up the SoC on System mode 1: I've been in a situation where it was overcast the whole day and then had a grid outage at 17h00 which lasted the whole night. The normal 20% SoC only lasted 4.5h and we went dark at about 22h30. I've changed the 16:00 slot to 35% to have a bigger buffer in the evening. At 16:00, if SoC < 35%, the inverter will use grid to bump to 35% SoC. Thanks for that, appreciate it
May 4, 20233 yr 20 hours ago, BruceK said: Ok thanks, thats what I was thinking as well, but then that cant be done remotely I dont think, ie if away on holiday, switch off and then back on. If at home, then its a simple hardware switch. Swith your batteries off and then back on when you need them. Simple
May 4, 20233 yr Author 4 hours ago, Nicholas Strachan said: Swith your batteries off and then back on when you need them. Simple Thanks, I was trying to find a remote way to do that from the app.
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