Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Jay via RE-wrenches
Oh that’s not encouraging. Care to share the issues. At least the 18kpv is easy to set up. JayOn Dec 13, 2024, at 3:20 PM, Michael Morningstar via RE-wrenches wrote:I wish I didn't know what you guys were talking about :) !!! Both SS and S-A. As I've been going through my learning curve with Midn

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Tyrone Houck via RE-wrenches
Any further investigation into the hardware differences between the newer 15k and the original 15k I mentioned before? That was the only thing that fixed the issue for us. We had to insist they replaced it with a newer matching inverter. I should have made note of the serial numbers to try to narro

Re: [RE-wrenches] SolarEdge

2024-12-13 Thread Jay via RE-wrenches
Is module level shut down required?On Dec 13, 2024, at 6:02 PM, Lou Russo via RE-wrenches wrote:Wrenches,We maintain a SolarEdge 119kW (564 panels) small commercial grid tied system without ESS that we did not install. We were brought in at the bitter end to commission and get the interconnection

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches
Just a follow-up to this saga... After many many more hours of diagnostics with tech support, often repeated on subsequent calls, I finally had to get irritated enough to demand that they just swap out the inverter. On three different calls they made me take the inverter out of parallel mode and ru

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Jay via RE-wrenches
Hi JasonI had a similar situation at signature solar/eg4. Customer was having lots of random issues with 18kpv. That included multiple shut downs per day. After a few weeks of going through the same questions and answers I was able to find a good level 2 tech who agreed to replace the inverter. The

Re: [RE-wrenches] FM100 Stuck in Silent Mode.

2024-12-13 Thread John Blittersdorf via RE-wrenches
Now that I am getting some data from the island with the old system keeping power up for 6 plus hours(.started with 2 hours and now with full sun 6 hours. I see on Event History that the FM100 is continually bulk charging then Not charging every minute No actual power produced but sometimes th

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Lloyd Hoffstatter via RE-wrenches
[sad] Lloyd Hoffstatter reacted to your message: From: RE-wrenches on behalf of Jay via RE-wrenches Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2024 12:41:44 AM To: RE-wrenches Cc: Jay Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System Oh that’s not en

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Michael Morningstar via RE-wrenches
I wish I didn't know what you guys were talking about :) !!! Both SS and S-A. As I've been going through my learning curve with Midnite's AIO and PF16, both Logan and Rick (and Richard at NAZ) have been there immediately for me and have held my hand the whole time. On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM

[RE-wrenches] SolarEdge

2024-12-13 Thread Lou Russo via RE-wrenches
Wrenches, We maintain a SolarEdge 119kW (564 panels) small commercial grid tied system without ESS that we did not install. We were brought in at the bitter end to commission and get the interconnection agreement with the power company all set up. It has been about 4 years and we have replaced 5 o

Re: [RE-wrenches] More Issues with Parallel Sol-Ark 15K System

2024-12-13 Thread Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches
Thank you for this tip. I did look at that today. It appears that all four units have identical hardware. I closely compared them and the circuit boards all appear identical. While one serial number was pretty far away from the other three, that was not the offending unit, and it appears identical

Re: [RE-wrenches] SolarEdge

2024-12-13 Thread Tyrone Houck via RE-wrenches
Around that time there were some issues with solaredge equipment..specifically bad optimizers the SE tech support affectionately dubbed "sleepy optimizers". We had one job from that production run that we replaced several of the optimizers on.. in general though we've had great luck with solaredge

Re: [RE-wrenches] SolarEdge

2024-12-13 Thread Howard Scot Arey via RE-wrenches
What a swap over...we have a muni project where the higher voltage optimizers on the 480v inverter allowed us to minimize conductor sizing. New central inverter would need to support strings that use that size. And then the labor to remove all those optimizers! But we're replacing one of those inve

Re: [RE-wrenches] SolarEdge

2024-12-13 Thread david quattro via RE-wrenches
If it’s tilt-up arrays, it’s definitely worth it. If it’s flush Mount then.. maybe. I’d tell the owner you simply don’t want to maintain it with Solaredge components. They can either find a different contractor, or let you upgrade the inverters. In my experience Solaredge had a high failure rat