Re: [RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Greetings Wrenches, I believe it’s extremely close now. It will be worth it! I’ll let someone know this has come up. I’m in a similar scenario integrating them with an SMA Multicluster box system. They’re being extremely responsible and certain that when it’s released all of the bugs are worked

Re: [RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Hello Howie ! After happy hour here for clients and I saw yours... The functional difference between xanbus or anyone else like Outback networking, is it is proprietary and held close to not let others copy or do damage to a network. Coming in thru Modbus or Canbus is controlled and the compa

Re: [RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Apparently the holdup is on Blue Planets part. Dave, what is the functional difference between integration through there Xanbus or through the gateway? Howie Michaelson Sun Catcher NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer™ Solar Electric & Heat Pumps Systems Sales & Service 802-272-0004 On Thu, Dec 17

Re: [RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Wrenches Is the holdup Blue planet or Schneider l heard this way back when and Sol ark did it so both outback and Schneider need to do this and soon. On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 2:51 PM Howie Michaelson wrote: > Hi All, > Speaking of battery integration, I have been waiting for almost 2 years > for Bl

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Jay, The codes are out there from Schneider at least. You want them? I would say it is up to the battery company to get it done. I know one of the Fortress batteries E-f;lex barely works and does not get out to the Insight cloud reliably. The other Fortress is definitely not closed loop yet fo

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Hats off to sol- ark. Outback, Schneider, magnum, etc should take note and get a move on with this integration Jay Peltz power. > On Dec 17, 2020, at 3:56 PM, Chris Sparadeo wrote: > >  > Fortress eFlex > Blue Planet Blue Ion 2.0 > Simpliphi Amplipi > Discover AES > Storz Power > > Al

Re: [RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Schneider will only integrate closed loop thru the Gateway Modbus input for all other batteries. Only Discover AES was allowed to go into xanbus. I believe this is because the engineers at both companies were from Xantrex, pre Schneider and worked together. These systems configure in about 2

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

Broken record here: DC coupled array, even if its just 1 kW.  That failure is classic AC coupled death spiral.  Leak caused the pump to run, pump ran the battery down, Sunny Island shut off, now no gen start or PV. We're trying to fix an orphaned SMA system now, the gen start is particularly p

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

My memory is that you need to disconnect the Sunny Island from all AC and DC voltages for 15-20 minutes before the low voltage lockout releases (I think there is a small LED light on the internal circuit board which turns off). Once that happens, you can reconnect the batteries and even with fairly

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Fortress eFlex Blue Planet Blue Ion 2.0 Simpliphi Amplipi Discover AES Storz Power All batteries that I believe have closed loop capabilities with the Sol Ark On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 5:48 PM MiJo Nels wrote: > Fortress batteries will also soon have this topology .. > > Joe Nelson > > Project Ma

[RE-wrenches] Blue planet integration

Hi All, Speaking of battery integration, I have been waiting for almost 2 years for Blue Planet to integrate their BMS into the Schneider Xanbus comms. I have asked them many times and continue to get the answer "sometime, maybe soon". Does anyone have any inside info on whether this is potential

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

This is totally normal w/ the displays. There IS an emergency charge setting…. You put AC into the AC out essentially AC coupling w/ the genset. Page 222 section 20.10. This works only w/ FLA batteries. What was the issue w/ the generator battery? I install a small AC charger for the generator

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

We had one Sunny Island system go totally dead years ago. The only way to get it running again was to charge the batteries, which we did in groups of two (6 volt batteries each) with a heavy duty 12 VDC automotive charger. It took about a week to charge all the batteries. Jerry, it's good to know t

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Fortress batteries will also soon have this topology .. Joe Nelson Project Manager C-46/C-10 Sustainable Energy Group Inc., A California Corporation CSL# 868816 www.SustainableEnergyGroup.com 530-273-4422 (Office) 530-217-8385 (Cell)     

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Sol Ark uses the new Simpliphi batteries which communicate with their inverters. Vic Guillot Vic Guillot Sol Sierra, Inc. 209.795.3554 office 209.768.3560 mobile/text On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:21 PM Jerry Shafer wrote: > Wrenches > Blue planet are integrated with sol ark > Jerry > > On Thu, D

Re: [RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

Wrenches Blue planet are integrated with sol ark Jerry On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 1:02 PM jay wrote: > HI All, > > Can anyone tell me and also point me to any data/manuals etc that show if > and which lithium battery the Sol-Ark 8/12 inverter directly communicates > with? > > I can’t find anything o

[RE-wrenches] sol_ark lithium battery closed loop com

HI All, Can anyone tell me and also point me to any data/manuals etc that show if and which lithium battery the Sol-Ark 8/12 inverter directly communicates with? I can’t find anything on their site but someone was just asking me about it. And they said yes it could but he didn’t have any data

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

Wrenches This is why AC coupling is not the best solution but you can program the SI to protect low voltage so if this happens you still have headroom to reboot the system, also program the GT inverters not to wait 300 sec to start. I would also suggest having a 48 vdc charger wired directly to the

[RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

Friends: I have a client living off-grid with a Sunny Island system AC coupled to Sunny Boy inverters. They returned from being away to find the system entirely shutdown due to cloudy weather, a dead generator cranking battery and a water leak which ran two booster pumps continuously over a per