Guys/Gals
I am a Brit living in Northern Ireland and need all the help I can get please. I have a renogy 60a rover mppt along and a Renogy 3000w invertor charger connected to solar panels with 2 x 300 ah lithium batteries. The cabin I have is totally off grid. The weather here for the last few years has been trash.
I need to get a remote start generator that has 230v and a max 30amp output. Because that is what the renogy invertor charger states what the specification is.
The invertors instructions states that it can connect to a remote start generator via dry contacts. When the battery voltage drops to a level the renogy manual states that it will signal the generator to start. And then when the generator has charged the batteries to a specific level. It turns the generator off.
That is what I need. I can manually turn a generator on for it to charge the batteries and power the load via the invertor. But If I have to go away anywhere for a period and the weather is trash then the batteries eventually run down and the invertor switches off, because the panels are never able to keep the batteries topped up because of the weather. I need power to keep the cctv, alarm system and broadband going at a min when I am away. But here in Northern Ireland we have gone about 2 months now, with hardly a day where the sun has got through overcast cloud or rain for the panels to doe their job.
The trouble is getting a supplier of a two wire remote start generator who is in anyway helpful. I look at the states and there appear to be plenty of suppliers of different two wire start systems, but they are 120v and the renogy invertor charger will not activate the bypass if the voltage from the generator is not 230v
I have found a supplier of a generator which is way more expensive than I wanted to buy, but by god is this guy unhelpful. The information on the generator is pretty scant on how to connect the generator to the invertor with the dry contacts and vise versa. Here is a link to it.
Now this appears to use a buccaneer connector but there is no info on pin out information
https://www.geargb.co.uk/product/50...G_GCE8000B_6.5kW_(8kVA)_AVR_Standby_Generator
If any of you guys could make any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated