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All these discussions make me so glad I stuck with off-grid with grid backup, keeping the electric company out of my business 😎

Finally - with the days slowly getting longer, the sun rising higher in the sky, and some creative rearrangement of my backyard panels - even transplanting a small palm tree - as of three days ago I'm no longer needing to supplement the solar with any grid power at all. Woo-hoo! 🥳

I don’t feel there’s much sense in even doing a PV to battery ratio, but rather PV to load consumption ratio. Ensure you have at least sufficient PV to pull in enough power on a daily basis to cover your loads over a 24 hour period (plus enough to cover efficiency losses and some amount of...

Yeah there’s an amazing difference between the discussions here and the comments on Facebook posts in the diy solar groups. The people in this place are so much more friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Very few trolls 😎

AKA EG4 8000XP or probably more like 10kPV - lol

Ha - like a drug dealer’s free sample ?

Makes me think of all the obvious typos I see on a regular basis even in news stories from major outlets... Our English teachers must be so frustrated ;)

Just had 10 of the 370W NE Solar panels delivered from Signature Solar today. Very nice packing job - no damage ??

The best way I have found is this: 1) Enable Battery ECO mode 2) In the Discharge Settings section, set the On Grid EOD SOC% to 90%, which is the highest threshold it will accept. 3) Set the AC Charge End Battery SOC to like 2% lower - like 88% 4) Set the AC Charge Start Batter SOC to slightly...

I don’t have any other Victron stuff but I do love the Lynx Power In - great compact set of well protected bus bars 😎

True in a way - but the advantages for me more than offset the downside of losing a couple of kWh a day to efficiency losses. Going to be quite a long time before those efficiency losses are going to add up to spending 2-3X more for the equipment. Plus, in my case I'm getting more than enough...

The way I look at it, if my array isn't large enough to charge the batteries to either full or at least more than where they started when the sun went down the night before, it's too small. Mine fully charge every day (at least from Feb through October).

Wow - just did all I could think of to make it fail. I maxed out the loads on the inverter up to ~95% of the capacity, with the solar cut off so the only power it had available was battery and grid. At 95% the inverter was still running purely off the battery power. Then I kicked on the dryer...

I’m not a Victron guy (yet) but got the Lynx Power In for two reasons: 1) with the limited space I have for my equipment it saves space on the wall vs having positive and negative bus bars mounted separately. 2) one thing I really like about it is better protection from accidentally touching the...

I have one on order from Current Connected. I do plan to use Solar Assistant with it - I'll report back on how it goes. I may be wrong but it appears that with the LuxPower units like this one and the 18kpv - that you might be able to use both SA and the EG4 monitoring system simultaneously...

My biggest mistake was starting too small. First an energizer solar generator from Costco. Then the EcoFlow Delta 2 Max with 2 expansion batteries and portable panels. Then the EG4 3k. Currently using the 6000xp with proper ground mounted rigid panels and planning to add a second 6000xp. I would...

Got this from someone's Facebook post. Anyone need a fuse this big for your battery rack? Oh sorry - don't see a DC rating... LOL

Someone accidentally destroyed their 6000XP and decided to disassemble it and shared pics… https://www.facebook.com/share/p/teEAFhGoF9ispctk/?mibextid=K35XfP

Looks like you have all the answers you need, but Will made a nice video on hooking up the Victron communications. Sharing in case you find it helpful...

Personally I really prefer the Victron Lynx Power In. 2x1000amp bus bars in a single enclosure with very good protection. Takes up less space on the wall, too ;)

Yeah I love mine - great solution for my backyard array here in Arizona. Used them to mount all my 370 watt NE panels. I just put several 50 pound sand bags inside each. Even during high wind monsoon storms they haven’t budged at all. I only wish they supported panels that were a bit wider...

Just received my 6000XP today from CC (well it shipped from Signature Solar - not sure what that arrangement is). Swapped out my 3000 EHV for this one. Slogged my way through the initial setup and configuration but so far so good. Have the EG4 and SA monitoring setup and working. Have it...

This certainly reminds me of the “religious” debates re: Windows vs Mac vs Linux, etc. Seems like the people who feel Victron is worth the money and those who feel it is not have all made their points and counter points and no one is going to change their mind - lol.

Yes - works great. When I go over the inverter capacity it handles the surge for a few seconds and then seamlessly switches to grid bypass. Once the load demand goes back down then after a few minutes it switches back to running off the inverter.

Excellent - thank you for the confirmation/clarification. The manual section in question is page 10 in the 1.1.7 PDF version, or page 11 in the 1.0.0 printed manual that came with my inverter. See the below table from that page in the manual:

If I'm not mistaken, the total shown there in the energy overview section for "Battery" is likely the total discharge power from the batteries. When you say the total kWh you have generated, it is tempting to just look at the solar production number, but if you are constantly running in...

@HighTechLab - you should add that to the banner on your site - “We Don’t Suck” 😎

You do have the option to monitor only with Solar Assistant and do all your configuration from the LCD screen. For myself, I use both on occasion as Solar Assistant does allow you to change some of the settings remotely, but not every configuration option on the inverter is available through SA.

Yeah if your loads aren’t going to be demanding the 50 amps of bypass you should be fine eh. Downgrading the breakers is a good idea though to protect the 8 gauge wire… every situation is unique.