haha, yes you are right, nothing will withstand cat 4 and 5 here... The 2 hurricanes that had hit in the last 20 years were just category 1, requiring me to fix 2 posts from my fences and roof replacement because several shingles were off. My portable basketball survived stand up.
to cheat or not to cheat... that is the question (and some discussion on rebranding equipment)
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Hey, this is my post... enough about copies of inverters or originals... they are off the topic. You can create a new post and discuss all you want about inverters origins.
robby
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Can you link a picture of the Inverter?
I don't see your profile page.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
I stated it, sorry if you got your panties in a bind... Which do you need?...Vagisil or Preparation H. ?
The majority of us accept the fact that rebranding occurs.
So your units have one trinket different or a slightly modified operating system from a mass produced voltronic/deye/whatever the newest thing from china is... whoopidty doo! its still a clone or so close that the rest of the forum calls it as such.
PotusGobbleBottom
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Mine dropped by 50% going on a year. I have cameras covering everywhere outside. No inspection yet!
PotusGobbleBottom
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Dont buy that POS. I have it. You are basically forced to use 10 awg in the PV terminals. No good!
Some updates here, I purchased a
Anyways, I read on some other forums that you don't connect the neutral from your transfer switch to the main panel. But the instruction on the transfer panel indicated to connect them, so I connected it. First thing I noticed is that some circuits in my panel with ARC breakers activated protection, but when switched over to the power station on the transfer switch, everything worked fine. Perhaps, still being disconnected from the load the arc breakers still kept activating protection, like .
Anyways, it was almost Sunset, so I connected the panels, and the input started showing up to 150 watts, and going down minute by minute. Battery arrived at 66%, so I connected it to the AC so that it can get charged 100% since the remained 30 minutes of sun will not be enough.. Total charging power incremented slowly to more than 1000W, so I switched to low speed charging so it can get from the grid a max of 800W. At 100% charge I connected the battery to the transfer switch using the TT30 cable, and all the circuits in the house that I connected to the transfer switch were alive again.
Kept monitoring with the app the consumptions of my loads and from my emporia the consumption of the circuit charging the battery, both numbers were almost the same, around 300W all night.
This morning it was haze again , and the app indicated only 9 watts from the solar panels. I waited until noon and it never moved from there. So I disconnected the AC cable to see if the solar panel inputs shows something different on the app, and yes, it started to climb the number up to 100W, but at the same time some buzz sound could be hear inside, and suddenly it shutdown completely. Overload protection switch was not activated, the device was unresponsive to any button. May be having the transfer switch neutral connected to the panel created an issue, or not but .. it is just a big brick now. It may be defective the unit so I am requesting a replacement. In fact, something I noticed overnight (I could not sleep well because I got the new battery toy), the AC input watt on the app showed as just 30 watt, while the output shows as 300W. But on my emporia I could see it was actually taking the 300W from the main panel.
I was expecting something better from the app, like control of turning on/off the outputs, or monitoring consumption for each outlet, but all it provides is input watts, AC cable and solar panel input. there is a graph, but it shows probably only the last minute, and all history is gone. And well, the AC input watts number was also wrong. First connection from the app to the battery was not easy as well, since instruction called to push a button for 3 seconds so wifi and BT start blinking, but those were only blinking while I kept pressed the button, the moment I released the button they stop blinking. So, I had to maintain the button pushed so that it could be connected to the app.
- transfer switch, and bought an
- Oupes Mega 2 power station (2500W, 2048Wh).
Anyways, I read on some other forums that you don't connect the neutral from your transfer switch to the main panel. But the instruction on the transfer panel indicated to connect them, so I connected it. First thing I noticed is that some circuits in my panel with ARC breakers activated protection, but when switched over to the power station on the transfer switch, everything worked fine. Perhaps, still being disconnected from the load the arc breakers still kept activating protection, like .
Anyways, it was almost Sunset, so I connected the panels, and the input started showing up to 150 watts, and going down minute by minute. Battery arrived at 66%, so I connected it to the AC so that it can get charged 100% since the remained 30 minutes of sun will not be enough.. Total charging power incremented slowly to more than 1000W, so I switched to low speed charging so it can get from the grid a max of 800W. At 100% charge I connected the battery to the transfer switch using the TT30 cable, and all the circuits in the house that I connected to the transfer switch were alive again.
Kept monitoring with the app the consumptions of my loads and from my emporia the consumption of the circuit charging the battery, both numbers were almost the same, around 300W all night.
This morning it was haze again , and the app indicated only 9 watts from the solar panels. I waited until noon and it never moved from there. So I disconnected the AC cable to see if the solar panel inputs shows something different on the app, and yes, it started to climb the number up to 100W, but at the same time some buzz sound could be hear inside, and suddenly it shutdown completely. Overload protection switch was not activated, the device was unresponsive to any button. May be having the transfer switch neutral connected to the panel created an issue, or not but .. it is just a big brick now. It may be defective the unit so I am requesting a replacement. In fact, something I noticed overnight (I could not sleep well because I got the new battery toy), the AC input watt on the app showed as just 30 watt, while the output shows as 300W. But on my emporia I could see it was actually taking the 300W from the main panel.
I was expecting something better from the app, like control of turning on/off the outputs, or monitoring consumption for each outlet, but all it provides is input watts, AC cable and solar panel input. there is a graph, but it shows probably only the last minute, and all history is gone. And well, the AC input watts number was also wrong. First connection from the app to the battery was not easy as well, since instruction called to push a button for 3 seconds so wifi and BT start blinking, but those were only blinking while I kept pressed the button, the moment I released the button they stop blinking. So, I had to maintain the button pushed so that it could be connected to the app.
After reading the "Grounding Made Simpler", I concluded my installation is fine. I looks like the Mega 2 is neutral-ground unbounded with my multimeter measurements, but I had also asked the question to the manufacturer to double confirm. Finally it is the sun at max, and temperature and RH as well (very hot), so it is a shame I cannot take advantage of the sun to reduce my electricity bill. Replacement requested already to the vendor, and I am so used to Amazon where they ship it immediately that waiting for this other vendor to reply, confirm and ship replacement is an eternity, probably not worth the $100 savings over Amazon. Hopefully next year, I would expand my system and use an AIO system like the majority on this forum. By the way, I had already changed the title of this post, so you guys can continue discussing about who manufactures to what brand...
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Brucey
Solar Wizard
This only applies to their diy series and their forthcoming "The One" AIO. The Midnite Rosie, and Barcelona and Hawkes Bay SCCs are built in Washington State.
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