EG4_Jared
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From what I can see, the changes are minor. Primarily involving renaming a few settings to align with the monitoring site.
EG4 18kPV Q+A general thread
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From what I can see, the changes are minor. Primarily involving renaming a few settings to align with the monitoring site.
Markus_EG4
I am from Germany. Don't mean to come off rude
I do have some answer but Can you DM me your station name so i can verify first
ksmithaz1
Solar / EV Junkie
I bit the bullet, Upgraded my inverters to LCD 14 and FW 1919 an hour ago. LCD theme is now Brown/Yellow/Grey instead of Green/Yellow/watever. A little easier to read I think. The LCD upgrade is kind of annoying, requires the patience of Job, it just sits there for 3 or 5 minutes, then poof! It comes up with the new look.
It made two upgrade passes on the remote upgrade side, DSP and something else. Relatively painless but it still trips both of the inverters off and on a couple times. Would really be better if you could walk them. There was no reason one inverter could not have handled the load.
Every time I have upgraded my inverters I've had to reset the LifePower4 battery stack to get it back online. The Ruixu's popped right back up.
Is there a way to get to the local web interface without connecting to the dongle ESSID?
[root@ks-ch-mini] /root<331>nmap 10.29.0.101
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-04-17 20:41 MST
Nmap scan report for ip-10-29-0-101.i.ksmith.com (10.29.0.101)
Host is up (0.034s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
8000/tcp open http-alt
MAC Address: 84:9D:C2:9E:1E:D8 (Shanghai Mxchip Information Technology)
Not sure what port 8000 is for, connects does not respond.
It made two upgrade passes on the remote upgrade side, DSP and something else. Relatively painless but it still trips both of the inverters off and on a couple times. Would really be better if you could walk them. There was no reason one inverter could not have handled the load.
Every time I have upgraded my inverters I've had to reset the LifePower4 battery stack to get it back online. The Ruixu's popped right back up.
Is there a way to get to the local web interface without connecting to the dongle ESSID?
[root@ks-ch-mini] /root<331>nmap 10.29.0.101
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-04-17 20:41 MST
Nmap scan report for ip-10-29-0-101.i.ksmith.com (10.29.0.101)
Host is up (0.034s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
8000/tcp open http-alt
MAC Address: 84:9D:C2:9E:1E:D8 (Shanghai Mxchip Information Technology)
Not sure what port 8000 is for, connects does not respond.
Luxpower_Gilbert
Luxpert @Luxpower USA Team
Lcd update can be done remotely…
Use the same network to connect to the dongle.. port 8000
cowduck
New Member
What is the process for remote lcd update? I thought flash drive was needed.
hyperlite1604
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@Markus_EG4 @EG4_Jared
I have a new feature request, if possible. Under forced discharge, can you allow the user to enter different forced discharge amounts per time period? For example, discharge 2kw during 4-9 and 1kw during 9-12. For me, this would let me maximize my TOU savings. It would be similar to the peak shaving feature where you can select the grid peak shaving power for 2 time periods.
Overall, the system is running great! Thanks.
I have a new feature request, if possible. Under forced discharge, can you allow the user to enter different forced discharge amounts per time period? For example, discharge 2kw during 4-9 and 1kw during 9-12. For me, this would let me maximize my TOU savings. It would be similar to the peak shaving feature where you can select the grid peak shaving power for 2 time periods.
Overall, the system is running great! Thanks.
Markus_EG4
I am from Germany. Don't mean to come off rude
Settings have been added for the End Users. 
diysolarforum.com
EG4 Web Monitor Settings
Good Morning! I am happy to announce that we have updated the list of available settings for End Users. We know that a lot of you want these settings, so we are making sure that you have them. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask down below! @EG4_Jared Thanks!
diysolarforum.com
ksmithaz1
Solar / EV Junkie
Not here. . .
[keith@ks-ch-mini] /home/keith<319>nmap 10.29.0.184
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-04-18 22:30 MST
Nmap scan report for ip-10-29-0-184.i.ksmith.com (10.29.0.184)
Host is up (0.057s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
2000/tcp open cisco-sccp
5060/tcp open sip
8000/tcp open http-alt
80 gives you a page to configure the dongle, change endpoints etc:
[keith@ks-ch-mini] /home/keith<315>curl -u admin:admin --basic http://10.29.0.184 --output - | gzip -d
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1444 0 1444 0 0 38831 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 39027
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />
<base target="child_page" />
<title>设置</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
. . .
8000 Will connect. It appears to be some sort of data dump, looks similar to modbus responses, they occur at regular intervals if you leave the socket open.
2000 and 5060 get a reset response.
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Awesome!! It will be nice to not have to run down into the basement and touch the inverter for adjustments!Settings have been added for the End Users.
EG4 Web Monitor Settings
Good Morning! I am happy to announce that we have updated the list of available settings for End Users. We know that a lot of you want these settings, so we are making sure that you have them. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask down below! @EG4_Jared Thanks!
I have a quick question about PV Arc protection. I have mine disabled, which I think is default?
Are there any "cons" to having this enabled? Seems like any protection would be beneficial?
Any guidance would be appreciated!
EG4_Jared
Online Support for EG4 Electronics
It does come disabled by default. However, it is an extra layer of protection without many cons. If I would say a con to this setting, it would be that you have to manually clear the Arc fault if one ever happened.
Thunderproof
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How does this work?
Hedges
I See Electromagnetic Fields!
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Rooftop PV has caused a number of fires, perhaps most famously seven Walmarts with Solar City systems (now owned by Tesla.)
After the first few fires, Walmart shut them off, but more occurred.
Supposedly due to bad MC4 connections, but I don't know how that could be with zero current flow.
Arc Fault detectors shut off the inverter. Supposed to stop the arc before a fire starts (but doesn't look like it would have helped Walmart.)
I think if PV panels also have RSD and shutdown is triggered, that could be more effective.
If your PV panels are (recent) rooftop mount in the US, arc fault protection is likely required by code.
If Arc fault actually occurs, I would call manual clearing an advantage not a disadvantage.
Disadvantage is if arc fault protection trips when there wasn't actually an arc fault, maybe due to electrical noise, RFI pickup, etc.
After the first few fires, Walmart shut them off, but more occurred.
Supposedly due to bad MC4 connections, but I don't know how that could be with zero current flow.
Arc Fault detectors shut off the inverter. Supposed to stop the arc before a fire starts (but doesn't look like it would have helped Walmart.)
I think if PV panels also have RSD and shutdown is triggered, that could be more effective.
If your PV panels are (recent) rooftop mount in the US, arc fault protection is likely required by code.
If Arc fault actually occurs, I would call manual clearing an advantage not a disadvantage.
Disadvantage is if arc fault protection trips when there wasn't actually an arc fault, maybe due to electrical noise, RFI pickup, etc.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
Is there an option to alert on the arc fault but not shut the inverter down? Then we could run it for a month to determine if there would have been any nuisance trips and ensure we had tracked down any wiring problems before enabling it.
Is the sensitivity controllable?
Does it just shut down the one effected MPPT input or the whole system?
Luxpower_Gilbert
Luxpert @Luxpower USA Team
I believe only distributors have access of it and it takes longer than doing manually..
Papapig
New Member
Unable to get my my 18kpv to recognize egr lifepower batteries. All firmware is updated . Using “Lead Acid” option for now but I thought firmware would fix. When I switch to lithium inverter errors out since can’t see batteries .
Anyone else dealing with this ?
Anyone else dealing with this ?
Mine says "no limitation"....and I didn't change it to that so I'm assuming that's default?
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
Nice, I can see lots of application for that, especially if you have demand charges.
Another update:
Lots of goods for us AC coupled folks. Not sure what they mean, but I've been running it all day and so far so good.
Lots of goods for us AC coupled folks. Not sure what they mean, but I've been running it all day and so far so good.
FAAB-1A1A
2024-04-22
- Same as fAAB-1A1A, changes based on the FAAB-1919.
- 1.Add 2 minutes of Warmup to the generator microgrid mode.
- 2. Add split phase voltage overvoltage and undervoltage protection for US models.
- 3. Improvement, keep off-grid state when countdown to connect to on-grid mode.At the end of the countdown, it will quickly switch from off grid to on-grid mode.
- 4. Improve load calculation in three-phase parallel and on-grid mode.
- 5. Fix the issue of using Grid AC to charge even when SOC/Volt reaches Stop AC Charge SOC/Volt when AC Couple and AC Charge are enabled.
- 6. Optimize AC Couple power display.
- 7. Fix the issue of the original AC Couple power not being able to reset to zero when the AC Couple is disconnected from the grid and there is no grid power.
- 8. Update PR-LUMA grid regulations parameters.
- 9. Update register information for "Permit Service".
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