Thank you. This was very useful. My plan is to charge the batteries up to 100% overnight on the flux rate of 19.67p. During the day, I'll be using free solar or using the batteries or buying at day rate 32.79. If I generate more than I use it will charge the batteries or export at 21.79p if the batteries are full. During the second half of the peak hours, I will discharge down to 10%, earning 34.9p. I know I'll then be buying electricity back in the evening, but after the peak time it only costs 32.79p. Overall, I'm buying at 19.67p and selling at 34.9p and 21.79p.

Thanks for replying. I decided to do the obvious and switch off all batteries and my LuxPower unit for 5 minutes. It all worked perfectly after turning back on. Your video was very helpful. Thanks.

So far I have only watched the first 10 minutes and I am already really impressed! Thanks and thanks again. I'll have a few queries next post!

Very useful video, thanks. Just got a LXP3600 ACS. loving it so far. Have 2 Pylontech US2000. Second hand and flat. So will be trying to get them up and running. Have solar too and the LUX console shows everything.

I have the Octopus Agile add on configured on my system and works really well.

Could I ask a general question please? We have this set up - Luxpower batteries and a controller that doesn't. Most of the time the controller is fast asleep and only grudgingly wakes up to switch to battery supply. Have you seen many examples where the controller does not control - or is ours the only one? TIA

Thank you once again for a very informative video. My graphs continue to show big mains pulls nearly everyday despite the batteries. None shown on yours! I wish I knew where the problem is. I have again raised it with the installer ......

Helpful video - thanks. I am permitted to export at 5KW and I notice my solar can produce in excess of 6.2kw in bright lunchtime sunshine - until my batteries are full - then I notice my luxpower inverter scales back the solar production to 5.2kw and limits my export rate to 4.6kw max (difference being my consumption). Is there a setting that can be increased to up the export to 5kw - or is the 5kw a nominal figure and 4.6kw considered near enough?

Great Video, I do have a quick question. I am on a Luxpower hybrid 8-10K inverter with 2 x 10Kw Hanchu Batteries, I am on Octopus Flux and with flux I have setup the batteries in the inverter config to charge them between 2am and 5am as it's really cheap. Is there a reason why when the batteries get fully charged say approx 4am the inverter does not swap over to batteries but keeps pulling current from the grid right up to 5am and then swaps onto batteries.

Hi, thanks for this video it’s very useful. I wondering if you can help, My battery will only AC charge IF it has some charge left in. If it’s empty at (at 11% SOC) then it will not auto AC charge. Should I try increasing the on grid cut off SOC a touch do you think?

Hi, thanks for a v useful video. I have lux batteries, invertor and solar and can’t figure out how to charge the car from the batteries at night. Thought the “force discharge” might work but I realise this sends it to the grid. Any suggestions gratefully received 😊 thanks

The web interface I see on the Africa server differs a lot from your video. Not sure if different regions have different versions, but I can't apply settings as you have. My actual problem is that an inverter is set to begin AC charge with both SOC and TIME - to begin 55% SOC and Time 18:00 start to 06:00 end. It charges fine during the specified Time range but not when it reaches the SOC percentage during the day. It does, however stop discahrging at the 50% EOD SOC I have set. Is there an explanation as local Lux support are unable to provide answers as to why it's not beginning charge at the SOC 55% point?

Thanks for the explanation. Very helpful. I currently don’t have solar but am considering this. The company that has quoted me have no knowledge of Lux inverters. I have 2 squirrel pods. To add solar to charge my batteries i understand we need to add a CT clamp on the primary Lux inverter that sees the power on the live of the PV inverter. The solar installer is thinking the CT clamp needs an Eastron SDM120CT. Is this correct?

I have solar plus batteries and I'm trying to work out how to maximise savings. I've noticed that my solar array can generate 6kw+ when batteries are charging but once my battery is full, this is scaled back considerably for export. I'm not tech savvy so I assume the limitation is the inverter. Is there a way of limiting the rate the battery charges so that I can maximise the amount I export during the day and just have the battery fully charged just in time for the sun going down. At the moment it seems like I'm wasting some of the sunshine

Is there any way to set the batteries to discharge at peak times, but not export to grid (only discharge for what the house is using)?I'm finding that the batteries are dumping out to grid and fully discharge before peak time has ended, therefore I'm still paying for peak time electricity towards the end of the peak time window.

Very informative.... if my car charges 0030-0530, how do I get the battery to charge at the same time? It seems to empty the battery instead of charging both! Thanks

Thanks for informative video as I have Lux power and greenlinx inralled last week. Planning to go onto Octopus Flux as soon as batteries certified . One question I'm trying to get my head around... I will want batteries to charge to 50% from 0200 to 0500 off peak , leaving room for solar charging later. I want to continue using grid power during that off peak period and not let the batteries discharge until the grid cost has gone up, don't I? Can I stop them discharging while I can use cheap off peak grid ? Thanks

Hi, thanks for the video. I have a Lux system installed with a Lux 6000 hybrid inverter and a Greenlinkx battery. Based on the specs of the inverter it seems that it could be fitted with an automation so that if the grid power gets down the solar system can disengage the grid and continue to feed the house and function from solar and battery alone - as long as there is enough power generated or available in the batteries . However, the installer said he cannot fit it that way. Do you know if there is any after market option to make it this way?

Thank you for this informative video. Im trying to change my settings so that the system runs off of my batteries at night up to a certain battery percentage (say 30%). Only then should the grid kick back in. Is this possible with Luxpower? At the moment my batteries are constantly set at 100%

In the last few days my pylontech batteries will only charge to 87% from the grid during my 7 hours of low price time at night and shows a red light on what i think is the master battery. (They always charged to 100% before that). I have the On-grid Cut-off set to 10% as set by my installer but the day this fault started the SOC went down to 9%. Could that have been the cause of the problem? However they will then charge to 100% later in the day when the solar panels kick in and no red light. Any suggestions for a solution? Thank you

@YorkshireAutomation this was genuinely a really helpful video and much better than the manufacturers literature and efforts. Perhaps a silly question but what does "Power Backup Enable" do? Is it possible to configure the system to run the house during the power cut? Or can you only wire a socket on to the battery for smaller items to use?

Hi, is there a way to set the start % for charging, as during the spring and summer months my batteries will go through the night and start charging via solar in the morning. So if the battery percentage was below 40% the inverter could charge them to 70%, thanks

Hi, helpful video! I have a question. In my house, I have 2 batteries, 10KW in total. I have System Discharge Power Rate(%) set to 10% because if I leave 100% they download in no time, even if during the night I don't have any device turned on. Why are they discharging quickly if I'm not using any device? Thank you so much

Hello I am on octopus flux and I have fox ess setup inc battery and inverter,and I cannot force discharge to get the higher rate,I can only import,can I just go onto lux with my sight in details or do I need to put any other settings,I am not good with computers and settings and understanding all,thanks

With solar panels, 5kW battery, and 3k Luxpower unit, I decided to create a simulation of using Octopus Flux over the last few days: These settings seem to work for our situation, although I expect they can be improved upon: With AC Battery Charge Level set to 30%: Booster charges between 02:00 and 05:00 for the Cheap period, 14:00-16:00 to ensure there is sufficient charge to cover the peak period and 20:00-21:00 We have the EPS available, albeit to one location only, and it seems appropriate to ensure that the battery is charged in case this facility is required. With On-Grid Cut-Off SOC set to 10% Discharge is scheduled for 18:00-19:00, the last hour of the Peak period. Comments invited.

Hi, I wonder if you could help I just connected PV2 - another set of 4 solar panels, to existing 12 panels (pv1) do I need to change any settings? I have only changed settings to pv - 2 separate connections, options were given separate or paralel, I selected 2 separate. I hope my question makes sense, I am new to all this. Thanks in advance

Hi, is the AC CHARGE setting that I see at minute 13:20 the one that allows you to charge the batteries at night at a discounted rate and then use the battery during the day? So recharge from 11.30pm until 5.30am?

Thanks for the video. We often appear to be exporting to the grid when we could be adding to the battery level. Is there a way to control this please?

Just finished watching the complete video. You did a great job! I have 1.5Kw pv, 6.3kWh Lux batteries and inverter, and an EV. On Octopus Go. Charging when necessary overnight but pv is currently filling it up anyway. Big query (1) Octopus billing me for ~10kWh per month for peak rate usage despite no evidence of this; (2) I keep seeing mains pulls lasting far more than 30 secs whenever kettle etc is switched on - before batteries kick in. This shows as lots of spikes. Any ideas about these problems. Octopus ignores my queries about billing and Luxpower themselves are all but dead in the water! Minimal responses from installer.

may i ask some questions please. 0. I just saw luxpowertek inverter model SNA6000W on internet. 1. can this inverter sync electricity come from solar cell/battery and grid. (i mean use both of electricity from solar cell/battery and grid in same time. ex. house load = 6kw and inverter can divide into 3kw from solar cell/battery + 3kw from grid) 2. this inverter can schedule/program charging/discharging time right ? lastly in my country it's so fuxk shit (bad) when i want to sell electric from my own solar cell.

Very useful. Tiny error, max power for two luxpower / squirrel pods of 7.2 kW does not equate to "40 amps". More like just under 32 amps. Hence my 32a MCB they are on, won't trip. But I have throttled charge rate to 57%, as I too have 19.2 kWh, I too have intelligent octopus, 6 hours to charge in, absolutely no need to go berserk and charge at 7 kW. 4 kW charge rate is plenty actually, and a shade kinder on the batteries.

We've installed a LuxPower hybrid solar inverter in our security estate in South Africa due to our country not having electricity for 12 hours of the day from the grid. At home I have a Victron system whereby I can just set the SOC to say 40% and the system will use the battery power at night when the sun is down and discharge to that setting before the grid is allowed to be used. Should the grid be out during Loadshedding (rolling blackouts) the batteries can dip below 40%. This is simple. But I have not yet figured out how to get this to work on the LuxPower inverter. The grid was out for 2 hours tonight and the battery discharged from 100% to 95% in that time. Now the battery remains at 95% while it is using grid power. There is enough battery capacity for our estate's security systems to be up all the time on the battery, after which the battery will recharge via solar again starting in the morning. Does anyone know how to set the LuxPower inverter to operate as with my Victron described above?

Thanks for video. I'm just on Octopus Flux import for a few weeks until they sort the export side. At the moment I can buy cheaper from grid 0200-0500. And over the first two days of doing this I'm not understanding the logic of what's happening. Here's an example. It's set to charge batteries to 40%. But at 2am they are still at 60% from yesterdays sunshine. I thought they would just keep getting discharged until they reach 40%. But that's not what's happening. At 2am luxpower ac controller starts importing from grid for the small background overnight usage. It stops discharging batteries until 5am. Then it's back to using the 60% SoC batteries. This means I had to purchase grid power unnecessarily in my opinion. Yes it was at cheap rate. But I wanted my batteries to be at 40% to make room for next days solar. I don't get the logic. Once I'm fully on Octopus Flux, I guess if not going to be such a financial problem.

As a Luxpower user, I found this a really helpful video, thanks. I’ve been an Octopus user for some years, now with Solar panels and battery, and will probably switch to Octopus Flux when the current fixed contract expires next month. Seeing your video, as an initial trial, I’ve set the battery to discharge from 18:00 to 19:00 with Stop discharge SoC set to 20%. However, after this time the battery is actually dropping to 5 or 6% SoC. How can I stop the SoC from going so low? Thanks.

I currently have two Pylontech US5000. I am going to add another two. What settings do I need to change in the Lux Power app to add these?

Thanks for a great walkthrough video! I have a car charging question. We have 5kW west facing solar, 9.6kW Greenlinx batteries, zappi charger, tesla 3 long range. We are on octopus go (00.30-04.30 cheap period). We’ll be charging the car during the cheap grid period. How do I set up the inverter/battery settings so we are not using the batteries during this cheap electricity period to charge the car? The battery capacity will not be enough. And no point draining the battery to then not have enough power to supply the house until sun is out.

Hi - Is it possible to have a lower rate of charge when using the grid over night but maintain full charge speed during the day? I've tried amending the grid charge option but noticed my system was also limiting my solar charging during the day!

My Lux Hybrid inverter is set up to charge the batteries on cheap rate (21:00 - 06:00), however it would appear to be powering the house as soon as the charging stops, when in reality I would prefer to maintain the batteries in standby until about 18:30 (in case of powercuts), and then to power the house before the next cheap rate switches in. Is this possible.

Great info. What secondary charger do you recommend

Hello i wondering if you can help me i have a 5kva luxpower inverter and the problem im experience is my battery is discharging more than the grid is puting in

We have load shading and times are not specific how do i leave the on grid charge to charge at any time we have on grid ?

Many thanks for this informative video. We have just added another 3 Pylontech batteries to our LuxPower Invertor. What do we have to do to see these on the app please?

How do you set the max battery capacity to less than 100%?

Do you know of any videos showing connection of inverter to consumer unit

Might be better if you don't have someone shredding bags of crisps in the background..?

What does S O C mean?

What is that noise? Is there a child with a packet of crisps running around?

whats the difference between forced discharge and system discharge. my battery discharged overnight, i wanted it to remain as backup and switch to grid when the sun goes out..