You may have a stacking error, l would verify that first Jerry On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 8:11 AM Chris Schaefer <ch...@solarandwindfx.com> wrote:
> G'Day All, > > Recently ran into an issue on a system installed by others. It's an > Outback FW1000 circa 2015 with a twin stack of VFX3648's. The system is > offgrid and charged solely by a 15kw propane fired generator with plenty of > hours on it. I'll be adding PV to it in the coming weeks. The system > originally came with a Mate Oval using the AGS. In late 2018 a second > installer replaced the oval with a Mate3, serial# M307410. The system has > been working with the AGS feature flawlessly. > > A couple weeks back I received a call because the Mate3 had locked up. So > I arrived last week with a new Mate3s in hand, serial# MA2007F0100150 not a > Mate3. I removed the SD card from the Mate3 and installed it to the Mate3s. > It appeared that someone had saved a profile so I loaded it into the newest > Mate3s. After reviewing the settings I was satisfied with them and fired > everything up and then manually started the genny. After an hour or so I > shut down the genny again manually. The AC power went out and on the Mate3s > I received an event, "AC Out shorted Error". This seemed odd as there were > no other changes to the system other than to swap out of the Mate. Tried > this several times with the same results. Next I decided to turn off the > home's main breaker @ the SEP. Did not get any error's at the Mate3s. Next > I turned on the 200A main @ the SEP. Still good. Then one by one all the > breakers in the SEP. No error's and the power is back on. Fired up the > genny, then turned it off and the same error reappears. > > Here's where it gets really interesting. The client still had the old oval > Mate lying around so just for fun I reinstalled it and everything ran > perfectly. Say what?!?! At this point I'm leaning to either an > incompatibility issue with the new Mate3s and the older VFX inverters or > just a bad Mate3s. What say you? > > Thanks, > Christopher- > > Chris Schaefer’s > <http:www.solarandwindfx.com> > > *Tel/Fax 585-229-2083 or Cell 585-748-1870 * > *5115 South Hill Road ~ Canandaigua New York 14424**www.solarandwindfx.com > <http://www.solarandwindfx.com> ~ E-mail: ch...@solarandwindfx.com > <ch...@solarandwindfx.com>* > > > Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, > "democracy" will cease to exist when you take away from those who are > willing to work and give to those who would not." > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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