Recent content by stuboy

So your battery could be completely depleted in the wrong circumstances, that VERY not good!

If the battery gets below what ever the force charge % is it will still force charge regardless of anything you set wont it? I await enlightenment ;-)

If you dont want it to "force charge" you will need to set you min SOC percentage higher, or if your battery's allow your Force charge percentage lower. Solis released a new firmware for their hybrids that now include this, bout time too! Cheers Stu

If you take a quick look at the specs for your inverter the start up voltage is 100v MINIMUM! U cant make that with just two panels in series, U will need a minimum of three panels in series :-) Cheers Stu

Yep as long as you got an ac mains capacitor of the correct rating u r good to go. If a cap shows only one value without a plus and minus percentage then the value stated should be a minimum value. Capacitors can have really quite wide tolerance values compared to say resistors. The Starter cap...

Yep have had exactly that happen!

Just to add for reference, I've used Wylex type A RCBO's and never had any problems..... yet, mainly because my OCD likes a nice row of matching breakers :-) But as binky says the Inverter checks its self every time it starts up so a correctly rated MCB is fine. What is not fine is sharing one!

Its always the hidden MC4 connector shuved in with no due care and attention that causes the trouble, even a quick tie wrap to keep them a little sheltered is very effective. If you read suppliers paperwork carefully, manufacturers say they only guarantee interconnecting MC4's of the SAME...

My view is, that if you have lightning and a nice earthed array, mr lighning bolt will go, oooh look a nice path to earth lets give it max amps, and you could end up with a smouldering mess!

Yep totally agree with Binky, the rules state competent person, so an appropriately trained spark fits in that category. Send it! ;-)

If your CT is making lots of noise it is either:- A) Not closed properly B) Not got a load on it, i.e. its not plugged in! Can you confirm on your inverter that it is seeing the CT and responding to it? Is it direct or via mod bus on those? Cheers Stu

100% agree on that one Binky, unless there are enough of you to have a staffed office or your 100% dedicated to solar jumping through all the ridiculess hoops is a monumental waste of time, and having seen a few so called "certified" installs you know that its a self serving Quango that does...

thats a great result. Have they said what the firmware change log is?

I think they calibrate themselves, as the CT input just looks for a sign change in current flow. The quick way to do it is as per instructions but it is constantly monitoring so it has to adjust anyway, else it would be useless. I set one of the old ones up for a customer using the other mode...

ditto, except it was several parts on the last one i looked at :-(