Good afternoon Jay,

16 KWH's when full, appears that my first two shipped at 34-50% SOC.

Enjoy your evening, Nick


On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 10:44 AM Jay via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> How many kWh of battery do you have.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2024, at 11:00 AM, Nick Lucchese via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Thanks Logan, Tyrone and Maverick,
>
> Yes I've tried all the things noted so far without any success. Since
> there is no PV nor controller at the moment I can't test with just a
> controller alone but after testing with the Rosie I'm quite certain the
> battery is just fine. Also to be clear, the Mate3s never really boots up,
> only briefly starts with the dancing lights as the power modules on top of
> the inverter makes the attempt to start the fans up.
>
> I'll test with a fresh out of the box Radian and Powerflo16 then report
> back what I find. It's got to be one or two of the power modules in the
> Radian. Had a similar multiple trip repair on one about 9 months ago and
> even (old) Outback had it being the last component(s) to replace.
>
> For those of you that did have success getting warranty parts of Outback,
> was it by email that you got a response or the 360-435-6030 number?
>
> Hope you all are having a relaxing Sunday, Nick
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 1:25 PM William Bryce via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick
>>
>> There are PF16's running open loop with Radians. The PF16 has a precharge
>> built in. The key is to have the inverter breaker closed, then close the
>> battery breaker. After that push the BMS power button (3-4 seconds the
>> display will power up) and the battery will slowly ramp up and do a
>> precharge before fully starting.
>>
>> Reach out to me off the list and I can help you more if the "new" radian
>> does not work.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Logan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 3:41 PM Nick Lucchese via RE-wrenches <
>> re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Wrenches,
>>>
>>> Wondering if any of you have successfully paired the new Powerflo16 with
>>> a GS8048-A yet? There is no reason it shouldn't work yet I've
>>> unsuccessfully been to a customer's site three times now without a fix. The
>>> Radian setup had been in use with an FLA Trojan pack for years till their
>>> demise due to the client unknowingly turned off the AC input source to keep
>>> them charged for his backup system lacking PV. Network is too far away
>>> therefore I didn't have Optics otherwise I would have caught it. Have not
>>> ruled out that there may have been another fault with the Radian before all
>>> this but the AC input seemed most logical and was known to be turned off by
>>> accident previously.
>>>
>>> Upon closing the Powerflo battery breaker to inverter the Mate3s lights
>>> up momentarily while briefly receiving full voltage but then DC voltage
>>> sinks to around 2-18vdc then either trips the breaker on the Powerflo16 or
>>> lights up the fault indicator. Spoke with Midnite support and they
>>> recommended a workaround to the BMS pre-charge boot up process but that
>>> didn't resolve the issue either. I originally thought it must be a failed
>>> Spare215 power supply board but after swapping there was no effect. Next
>>> return trip I brought a Rosie with me and everything powered up just fine
>>> so I then figured it would be the Spare 204 board stack but had the same
>>> exact effect when I tried that swap today. My next step is returning to
>>> swap the Spare-205 power control modules but first I'm going to unbox
>>> another Powerflo16 at my shop and pair it with a brand new Radian that has
>>> not yet been cannibalized. I've installed 42 Radians and only had two with
>>> failed Spare-205 control modules but each time it was a similar outcome
>>> with them being the last thing I swapped to success.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking it must be a failed Spare-205 but since the Powerflo
>>> has only been shipping for a couple months I just wanted to run this by the
>>> group to see how many have successfully paired these two components at this
>>> point. The Radian is still under warranty but that seems pretty meaningless
>>> at this point. One way or another this job is going to be a loss at this
>>> point but oddly still having fun working through a new head scratcher.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insight, Nick
>>>
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