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Pumping the brakes on my purchase for now. I noticed this is not available on solar assistant yet and I'm not going to be using this without solar assistant- period! Updates every 5 minutes is a non starter for me.

Yeah. The problem with the sunny islands is if I'm connected to the grid, either exporting or charging the batteries, it will always pass the grid to the loads, and keep the battery fully charged

It would be replacing the sunny islands. I love the sunny islands but they are not set and forget- I have to change settings daily.

We'll have to see but it uses the same portal and the settings look very similar

Imo grid interactive inverters all have good hardware. Where they separate themselves is the software and the reason I'm about the growatt is I like their software.

Oh damn! Nice. So now the question is do I want to wait and see what signature solar will sell it for or do I just want to go ahead and pull the trigger. Tough one

I don't understand what you're trying to avoid here.

There are several available in the 10kw class. I didn't mention them because I wouldn't consider them

He said 50a at 240v

Many ways to skin this cat. Easiest: get a grid interactive battery backup inverter, eg eg4 18kpv $4900, solark 15k $7000. Or wait for the new growatt sph 10000tl for about $2600

Good point. The way my setup works right now is it stays at full battery until I disconnect the grid after sunset. The new hybrids are different so I'll have to develop a strategy for that. Thanks for pointing that out

May not hurt to email center point. My utility wasn't listed. I emailed them and they said they could do it. I use iotawatt for my main panel. I'll need to see if there are notifications. Today or tomorrow I'm moving the CTs for my growatt to my main disconnect so it can see all house import...

ok, that's a solution that I can use. thanks. My sunny island automatically does this. if an external charger is raising the voltage higher than the sunny island setting then the sunny island will export as needed to maintain the voltage. I just needed to know if other hybrids do this since I...

What I mean is , let's say for some reason I have pv attached to a victron charge controller that's feeding the battery. If the battery gets full will the solark transfer power from the battery into the grid so the soc /voltage doesn't continue to climb?

I use the cheap zigbee one that talks directly to the meter . Some utilities allow this. It's only about $40 Vue Smart Home Energy Monitor | Works only w/PG&E, SCE, PPL, First Energy, Ohio Edison, Burlington Electric & Green Mountain Power | Connects to Your Electric Meter | Solar Net Metering...