Another thing to be careful of, the early ARO cabinets did not have 2 RJ-45 plugs so you could connect 2 in parallel to the inverter. With those (I have 2 being used as expansion cabinets so it does not matter) you would have to manually wire the RS-485 and CAN wires to connect two in parallel to a version 2 or version 3 inverter. That would trip up a lot of folks.
The attached shows the difference I was referring to. One possible reason for the price difference @kscessnadriver was referring to above is this. who knows....
Actually it’s the sellers. For example, the V1, V2 and V3 MIN-US inverters have different part numbers. The sellers do not list the part numbers. Te only sellers who seemed to understand the difference when I asked them was Renvu and SanTan.
Yes, my understanding is that GrowattUSA has one in their facility in CA and are testing it.
They should post vids!
They can use the lead acid batteries so let much any battery you want to use should be compatible in open loop. The manual lists a couple of batteries that are compatible in closed loop
That’s where I’m different than most. Batteries are easy to really mess up and that’s expensive and dangerous. I was once a submariner and I am very familiar with the catastrophic things that can occur with careless and haphazard use of batteries of any type. I want nothing but closed loop and I want that loop to be rock solid and very little if anything the user can change to mess stuff up - especially if that battery is in the basement of my home.
Thousands of people are using batteries in open loop with no issues- not being careless or haphazard is the key.
These inverters are primarily intended for grid tie and hybrid. So certainly they work this way.
I'll take open loop over closed loop any day of the week.
Yes. But it'll pull from battery first if pv isn't enough
I’m not sure what your reasoning is for this statement? It seems to me it’s very suitable for both off grid and gridtied or a combination of both. Only thing l don’t like ( if I was interested in actually buying one or more I’d look a lot harder though) is it’s not able to use high voltage battery.
Incorrect, read pages 49-51 of the manual, it’ll do whichever you tell it to, just like the MIN-US.
You have a gridtied or off grid system?
Gridtie and I live in dense inner suburbs with insufficient area for me to live off-grid / not allowed to run generator for off-grid unlike the homesteading folks here.
