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Hey guys, I've want to follow some advice given by John to hopefully help with grid import, but I don't understand my grid control settings (import/export), and the manual doesn't have ANY information about them. And my supplier either doesn't reply, or if they do the language barrier means I...

Hey guys, Hopefully a quicky. If my panels have a high voltage, usually 350v, and have got very low Amps, does this mean the system has just shut down, but if I were to add a load, it would start producing again? (See pic) This usually happens when my batteries are full and we have either no...

Hey guys, Am I reading this right, is this device an automatic changeover switch, that would work like a Tesla Gateway...

Hey Guys, I'm in a strange situation where a customer of ours has had a customer of theirs, go bust while trying to roll out a company franchise, which has left my customer with considerable amounts of stock they have asked me to try and sell for them. So these aren't being sold through the...

Hey guys, sorry if this has been dealt with already. Hopefully a simple question. Both my battery banks have the positive and negative cables returning to the inverter coming from the master battery. Now someone I know who builds power systems for vehicles told me that I should have the...

Hey guys, Not sure if anyone will be able to answer this, but I've got an issue with how my batteries work. My supplier, Afore, say my batteries won't respond to loads of less than 200w, which sounds fine in theory, but in practice, that's a huge amount of things, so much so that we are still...

Hi guys, Title says it all. Jay

Hey guys, The wife is a bit of a stress head (aren't they all), and has made me fit a smoke alarm in the under stairs where all the solar kit is. But she also wants a fire extinguisher. So, which one should I get? I've read that electrical fires need either CO2 or powder, but then have come...

Hey guys, My system is setup and running well, thanks to a firmware update. The inverters are paralleled together, and all seems good. I know John and a few other people were intrigued to know how the inverters dealt with being paralleled, but I don't understand the workings enough to give...

Sorry for the gross title, couldn't resist. So, I'm miffed. My batteries have an individual discharge max power of 2500w, but they are paralleled together as a bank of 3, which I thought meant I would get 3 times the power out of them, but considering my inverter is only 6kw, then obviously...

Hey guys, I've been reading a lot about inverters tripping RCDs, and about the value of using an RCBO so everything protected by the RCD if using an MCB doesn't trip out. What are you thoughts? MCB after an RCD MCB before an RCD RCBO before RCD Cheers, Jay

I've just put a multi meter on the ends of my solar cable to check to see if I missed any connections (too late now), and got some startling results that I don't understand. Today is an incredibly grey, showery day (see pic), but a bright sky. The results I got were 345V and 18.5A, which is...

What is happening, everything is going wrong. So you guys might already know that I had to change my inverters as I was struggling to find compatible batteries, so I bought a full system from AllGreen Energy. I thought I'd check the input stats, as the PV Amps were right on the limit with the...

Hey guys. Good news and bad news this week. I took the week off to get the solar install done, but thanks to having to waste 2.5 days putting noggins in the loft for the roof hooks to fasten to, I've failed. I did get the front roof done, and all the wiring for both roofs down to the...

Omg, Binky, how do you do this for a living, nothing is simple. So I've got next week off to install my system, and the weather forecast says tomorrow is the only dry day, so I've decided to put the mounting system up, so I can work inside on the bad days (will obviously have to put the panels...

Hey guys, I hope this is a simple question. My batteries have two options for external connection to an inverter, CAN or RS485. The batteries don't come with either cable. So my question is, which one is better? Cheers.

As if I'm not struggling enough with all this. I downloaded the battery manual a few weeks ago and have browsed bits of it, but today I knew I would be sat about for a while, so I took the physical manual out of the battery box and took it out with me. Now the PDF version talks about...

Hey guys, sorry, general question that's nothing to do with renewables. Ive got a DC pond pump running one of my drum filters, that I need to turn off when the water level drops, to let the level rise again in the filter. So I want to put a float switch in the line, but I've got 3 positions...

I'll start by saying sorry for this question. Some things just don't make sense to me. My batteries came today. Yay. They came with battery cables, the type used with Pylontech, so seriously thick ones, and they also sent me a few meters of what I think is 12mm² cable, which I assume they...

Hey guys, Hopefully this is a quick question. Can I use the smaller (Wylex on the left) of these two switches as an AC isolator for my inverters? I ask as I'm really struggling for room with all the peripherals, it's driving me crazy. Cheers, Jay