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If you’ve been using the January beta version of SA and you upgrade to the March 5th beta build just know that they moved the 6000xp controls from the Power Management tab (lightning bolt tab) to the settings tab. Scroll down to the inverter section and click on the Settings link there. This...

If you use the monitor.eg4electronics.com site for monitoring your inverter then you'll get the following warning when trying to navigate to the website. The site's certificate expired yesterday. @EG4_Jared perhaps you can give an update on this? Your connection is not private Attackers might...

I was doing a 1 month in test making sure my cables were tight. When I wiggled the battery cables it tripped the 200a battery breaker on the 6000xp. The inverter went into grid bypass mode - using my grid to power the loads. I flipped the breaker back on and checked all connections and...

I’m trying to calculate money saved on our 6000XP based system via the EG4 Monitor app or Solar Assistant. Nothing fancy, just $0.12 per kWH times the power that has gone to the loads that didn’t come from my energy provider. From what I can see in the EG4 software this seems to be...

Edit: the problem was I had the EPS switch OFF because I didn't need to supply any loads. Flipped that on and Quick Charge started working. I’m having trouble getting Quick Charge to engage for my 6000XP. It worked when I tested it last week when my electrician and I wired the Grid In...

I was watching @Will Prowse latest video again on the 6000XP showing two units in parallel. In it at 6:06 he talks about the grid connections. He used a NEMA 6-50P plug to supply the Grid Input for the XP's pass through and battery charging. That plug doesn't carry a neutral wire. That makes...

While planning my first solar system I'm also thinking about what can go wrong. In the event of a power outage AND an inverter problem I'd like the ability to run some lights directly from the 48v rack batteries. So I hopped on Amazon and started searching for 48v LED lights. I found these...

I’m new to solar but have been reading a lot for a year now. I just bought eight of the higher power 44.6” panels and wanted to use the Brightmount rack. However I don’t want to connect the two sections together. Instead I want two 2 panel mounts. Actually I want to buy two kits and leave both...

I'm gathering supplies for my first system. I have nine 545w bifacial panels already, I've ordered an EG4 6000XP, and two EG4 LL batteries. Using 10 AWG PV wire. 10AWG ground wiring. 6 or 8AWG THHN for grid and load wiring with 30A breakers. Still need to order lug crimper, heat shrink...

I've bought my first panels, nine used 545w bifacials, and one or two have these marks on them which I'm assuming is hard water spots from being stored. The panels don't look like they were ever installed, no tooling marks or screw scuffs. Just some rash on the frames from being moved around...

Hopefully this wasn’t already posted before ?⚡️ Edit: image copied from a Facebook car group.

I've found a used Victron 500A SmartShunt for sale locally and the price is 1/3 of a new one. Listing says it's an 'open box' and brand new. Is this too good to be true? I'm only in the planning stages of my small 3-6kW solar w/48v off grid system but I know how useful having a good shunt is...