There’s always power going thru the power lines when the grid is sending power to homes. When the grids down the lineman need to know there isn’t generators or solar setups) from homes backfeeding into the power lines making the lines hot when they shouldn’t be. This is why all grid tie inverters have Anti islanding
Which firmware version do you have installed?
Will have to look but it’s the current one in the app.
No, you are thinking anti-islanding. Not backfeed. That feature should work just fine.
Hope we can get an answer to this. Being I have the same problem I don’t have an answer for you, except maybe check your discharge amps from your battery. Make sure it’s set high enough. And your not getting voltage drop.
Can you share you settings and photos of the LCD screen(s)?
My discharge is set at 250 shortly after that it was pulling 10kw from the batteries then about an hour later after pv was done it went back to grid and never again pulled from battery I went out and killed grid breaker and made it discharge till midnight to get it down for charging back today. I am having dongle issues and cant remote monitor but judging by SA still hooked to the batteries and emporia showing grid with pv input its working right currently but I haven't changed anything . Ty gave me some settings to lower on charge settings an to match my bulk and absorb plan to try them tonight. I am currently running open loop till I take time to update firmware on my lifepower4 batteries.
I'm not super familiar with the ins and outs of SolarEdge power optimizers, but from what I've heard there are a number of them that only work properly with SE inverters and require an additional device to be unlocked for use with non-SE inverters. If that's the case, you won't be able to wire them directly to the 18kPV. The transmitter built in works on SunSpec protocol, for RSD systems such as APSmart and Tigo, I believe SE may be some proprietary communication.
That's probably the best solution but unfortunately I have already gotten rid of the SE5000.
The optimizers I have are long obsolete so I should probably remove them. Do I need anything in between the PV panels and the 18K?
firmware upgrade and proper settings
You either going to have to replace that se5000, there's plenty of them about or swap out the solaredge optimizers with Tigo's or such like.
Im curious if it allows you to change your charge setting. Im having Same dongle issue. It wont connect to the inv.
No I couldn’t get it to change charge settings. It ended up being my cut off setting being too high as soon as i dropped it it started using the battery again. Yes it automatically switched to battery with no grid. I just updated the firmware on my batteries and switched to closed loop now thou so will see how it does with the soc percentages tomorrow.
You don't need anything between your solar and the 18kPV's MPPTs to work, just as long as your PV strings are series'd to a high enough voltage to start the MPPT. Depending on where your panels are mounted, you may need MLPEs for 690.12 compliance but that's where the transmitter can help make things plug and play if compatible.
