Recent content by ChrisG

That’s an incredible amount of damage to those transmission lines. I lived in Houston area (Cypress TX) years ago and everything was built to sustain hurricane force winds. Truly hope everyone is ok there. Weather has been crazy all over. We have a cabin at a high elevation in the NC mountains...

Not with what I’m using. You would need some other way to look at SOC and use some relay to enable the water heater as a dump load. Really not sure to be honest

Correct. The ESP32 and CAN board sits between the shunt and inverter CAN battery port. I have the 6000xp set to Lithium Battery type 2 (for pylon). The esp32 sends SOC, voltage, capacity, etc received from Victron Shunt to the 6000xp. I have the 6000XP on SOC control for charge, discharge...

Actually the Victron Shunt can communicate with any inverter that uses Pylontech CAN protocols using the ESP32 and the project thread. Mine has been working for more than 2.5 months with an EG4 6000xp without issue and now there is a new version of the code. As far as why use a shunt, it very...

Apparently I can’t post the simple statement above.

Yup. lol.

Not to get into politics and I do agree, but it’s the opposite party here that approved and budgeted for this.

Ha. It sure is. They are trying a concept of continuous property assessments. Keeps me on my toes but if they come when I’m out of town, whatever. I have Rec Alpha Black panels I’m going to mount to a dark red brick wall fence with unistrut which will allow me to infinitely angle them. I’ll...

Doing something similar on the ground. My dogs hate the sound of the city and power company drones and they are a good alert for me to disconnect and put panels in the garage for a bit.

I got a great deal on Champions Amazon store over this past Christmas and they always run deals. Bought a gas only 120/240v 6250w open frame inverter generator for $287 then bought the propane/natural gas motor snorkel for $100. Did the break in on non-ethanol gas but it has only used propane...

It’s 6000 watt inverter output. Love mine. Great inverter. Not sure why they chose the PV amount as the name vs the inverter output on the 18k.

If it’s the 12kpv it’s probably 8k which would follow the 18kPV which is actually 12k.

So, is V2 ready for primetime, I honestly have not had time to look further into it. I would love to try it out on my EG4 6000xp in the next few weeks.

I’m sorry, still laughing at this snarky one. Almost thought I wrote it

My battery is 200ah and defined in code that way. I need the look at the code in my config but here is the source from git. If I understand this, > 90% SOC 200ah/10=charge at 20a. If > 95% SOC 200ah/20=charge at 10a. if (_battCapacity > 0 && _initialBattData){ if(_battSOC > 95)...