Afternoon William,

The communication is there to send the signal to the Sunny Boys to go into 
off-grid mode, when the grid fails.
Frequency shift still occurs when current is not needed from the SBoy’s.

I typically would not recommend that a UPS circuit be placed in the protected 
loads panel.
The UPS is looking for grid issues, and I think the frequency shift feature 
would probably fall under that.

As for the SI frying the UPS, it is my opinion that the UPS failed. It should 
have disconnected and started to provide backup power to its loads when the SI 
started to shift the freq.
That’s its job.

I Still think it is a good idea to examine the SI data, maybe you can figure 
out if the SI was in Freq shift mode when the UPS failed.

Thanks

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From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf 
Of William Miller
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:55 AM
To: 'RE-wrenches'
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] More Sunny Island power problems

Mac:

I will review the data.  Thanks!

William

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From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf 
Of Mac Lewis
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:46 AM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] More Sunny Island power problems


William,
As far as I understand, the communication is supposed to take away the need for 
frequency shift. Have you pulled the data off of the Sim card and looked for 
frequency shift?
On Aug 15, 2014 10:24 AM, "William Miller" 
<will...@millersolar.com<mailto:will...@millersolar.com>> wrote:
Friends:

A Sunny Island mini-grid system I am maintaining also does not play nice with a 
UPS unit.  So much so that the system reportedly fried a Furman UPS unit 
yesterday!

This should not be!  The UPS unit is supposed to protect downstream equipment 
and should be able to protect itself as well.

I need to rent some high quality power monitoring equipment to monitor voltage, 
frequency and distortion.  I need one three phase unit in the power building 
and I need something more compact for the AV equipment room.  Does anyone have 
a recommendation for models that might work in this scenario?

The thought occurred to me that the system by which the Sunny Island varies 
line frequency may be problematic for sensitive electronics.  I have connected 
the Sunny Island master to the Sunny Boys with RS485 and programmed the Sunny 
Boys for off-grid.  Can this allow the two systems to communicate to regulate 
PV charge without relying on frequency shifting?

Thanks in advance.

William


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