Glad to be able to help! Try turning off the EPS switch on the left side of the inverter. I would be very cautious working inside the inverter while PV is still coming in. Not something I would recommend doing.

@@waseemaboudahr9215 it could be the watchpower servers are having issues again. That seems to happen every few weeks.

@@bryanward7451 yeah so they ended up discontinuing the 6500s because of a lot of problems that they had coming from the factory. I’ll tell you it’s probably 50/50 whether or not you have issues with the 6500s or they work perfectly fine. So here’s your options. You can attempt to install the 6500s and hope that they work, you can try and sell them and find something else or you can look at utilizing their upgrade program towards their newer model 6000 XP or the 18 KPV. Many people have decided to utilize the upgrade program, you just have to pay extra and send back your old units. signaturesolar.com/upgrade-program

@@AdamDeLay07 I sure appreciate the quick response. I will see what, if anything, signature solar will do to help me upgrade.

@@bryanward7451 good luck. Let me know what you end up doing.

Appreciate that!

Thanks for the comment! So the main panel did have a ground neutral bond but the inverter didn't. It turns out that this is a fairly common problem with the cheaper HF inverters. I've gotten quite a few responses from people using the same style inverter (whether SunGoldPower, MPP or EG4). In looking through the DIY Solar Forum, it seems like these cheaper inverters don't have proper isolation between the PV and AC H-Bridge. diysolarforum.com/threads/eg4-6500-voltage-on-pv-terminals.55201/#post-707937

@@middleway1885 appreciate that!

Riiiight

Thanks a lot!

That's good to know. Thanks!

Thanks

@@royamberg9177 hard to say what the crazy people did before I bought the house. I’ve found way too many “surprises” in the wall…. I’m guessing it’s only R12-14.

@@manuelflores5869 thanks for the info!

@@DuncanCunningham thanks Duncan. You can always email me. That works best for me.

@@rodneyhunt thanks!

@@asmallcanadianbeekeeper5427 awesome, thanks!

@@stevedutcher3875 Kool idea with the dual minisplits. I like the fact that if one goes down you only loose 1/2 your cooling power.

@@stevedutcher3875 Can you buy the Freon without a license ? I was a licensed electrician 25 years ago and have a business license but could not buy freon unless I applied for an environmental permit. I tried a few years back when I was looking at the NON- DIY minis splits. Is this still the case to buy freon? I bought all the tools required to install the line sets but was halted due to freon so went DIY. I would love to service the mini splits if they ever need

@@stevedutcher3875 someone else mentioned this as well. Something I never would have considered. Thanks!

@@jl9678 I wouldn’t say that’s controversial. It’s actually a very interesting idea! Thanks!

@@brocke.harris172 awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience!

I'm using the EG4 12000 BTU hybrid mini split on a room exactly half of what you have, high ceilings and all and it does a great job. So I'd go 24000 BTU for that room. I'm in the USVI, concrete walls and no insulation anywhere.

I'll add another successful EG4 ac/dc story. My traditional carrier 3 ton Central Florida 3000 square-foot home is now far less toasty due to the combination of a 24k and 12k effectively chilling my (within envelope) close cell spray foam attic 24/7 to ~65f, effectively chilling my home from above through the drywall. My ceiling temperatures are typically a 5 to 7° delta to the floor temperature which creates a convection effect with cool air falling and warm rising. Friends will come over and be mystified why super cool air is moving around them with no ceiling fans and very low static pressure central ventilation.

@@slugbyte thanks!

@@jtmg11 that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@@simongrace2538 nice! Forgot about Mitsubishi. I’ll take a look. Appreciate it!

@@snoflite5234 thanks!

@@AdamDeLay07 I tried to include a product link, but you know how u tube is with links. It is a good unit, I have one for my shop. It will heat down to -22 degrees.

@@snoflite5234 thanks. You can always email it to me.

@@colormaker5070 thanks! Yeah my wife thought the room could pull it off when we moved in cause it was such a large room. Wouldn’t work in any other room of the house though… 😁

@@kazman8560 it does need a bigger fan. Need to get one of those commercial ones you see in lawn and garden stores… 😁 Thanks!

@@Roll2Videos 🤣🤣🤣 I actually tried one of those “styrofoam cooler air conditioners”…yeah couldn’t get it to work (even when I moved it to a small room)

@@AdamDeLay07 😂

@@alandonnels7382 it’s prob 24x24x14. Yeah I like the pressurized line set idea. I could buy the tools to perform a vacuum draw, but why when there’s DIY options… thanks!

@@AdamDeLay07 I agree but one doesn't have to buy the pump and guage set. Your local auto pats house will loan these to you. Well pay and then get money back when returned

@@glennwest4438 great idea! Thanks!

@@dangoras9152 why Mr cool vs EG4?

@@tjmooney4181 hard to say because right now if we want to use at all during winter, we have to run that fireplace to get it up to temp. We’ve never been able to use the room for any season straight through.

My 12k minisplit in our small 2 story cabin ( 24' x 27' ) keeps everything under it ice cold but everything above it stays 🔥

@@tjmooney4181 hehe, yeah I imagine it would do that…and you prob have higher temps then I do

@@AdamDeLay07 112 here in northern California last week 🥵

@@tjmooney4181 bleh, and I thought mid 80s was instant death…

@@GavinStoneDIY thanks Gavin!

Yes it is! I'm guessing it probably has to do with size and weight. It's easier to have a smaller profile with the cylindrical cells because they can stack on an angle.

I'm not sure if there's a way to do it from the display, but I know there's an option in the web portal. It's at the bottom of the Settings page.

You can use the display to program most of the settings. I think there's only a few advanced settings that are only accessible from the web portal (fan control, factory reset). Even the mobile app doesn't have some of the same advanced settings that the display is missing. You can do all your initial config from the display though. That's what I did. The mobile app/web app just makes it easier to make changes because you don't have to scroll through menus and options on the inverter display.

I can’t recall the specifics but it wasn’t for gen or TOU.

@@AdamDeLay07 would you rather our pv total showed available and not clipped values or is this the way all inverters report?

@@bobmonztr I would think it should show up to the max that it's programmed to handle. You should be able to know right away if your string is being clipped due to your panel config and the PV numbers maxing out.

@@AdamDeLay07 I have to add loads to get the array #'s up, 20kw a day in june, now with all the ac I see 31 kw a day. My short Amen solar 8k, now I know even the daily total is clipped.

@@bobmonztr is that due to your batteries getting full and charging ramping down? That’s the only reason I could see a load changing how much pv could come in (unless there’s some programming issue). I guess the other thing it could be is that I had to change the max charge rate on mine because it was set too low as a default. It was set to something like 20a and was causing my pv to clip. Once I realized that, I increased the setting and all the sudden pv numbers were higher.

Would probably work very well for that application.

I have an 8kw, it takes 7500w to blow the fuse on a single mppt. That 10kw even more.

​@@bobmonztrAre you generally happy with it?

@@hendersonsobers396 The first unit was the older version, firmware fault, only charged battery to 60% for months, I am new I thought 48v was full, now 52.6 is full, anyways dec24th it won't gen charge past 150w , solar online answered my call at the dinner table , we did get it to charge next day but then he told me about the 55% SOC charge , so asap dec27th the new unit was already en route . Old unit is here just needing a new flash. Swap took 15 mins tops, I gave the new unit 5.4kw from gen, and saw highest volts ever 49.6, took 5 days for my Pb C batteries to take a whole charge from 6 months of PSOC, 50.8 51.2,51.4, 51.6 day 5 at 51.8. Lead Carbon is tough. Now with a fully working unit, amazing not a single glitch, silent to 2200w, went 3 months with all float charge maybe 40mins absorb, even with a 40A ac surge I have never seen a light dim, it could flip to gen and not notice a flicker, most changes can be done on the unit settings. I had to raise my freq hi low alarms the only day I last used the gen. Any unit or brand that looks like this inverter, the voltmeter is not accurate, I had to reduce absorb and float by 2v, small load shows 1.2 to 2v less than actual. Next year I buy a second one as back up.

@@hendersonsobers396 I thought I replied to you days ago, yeah so far the replacement has been no problem, silent to 2.2kw. The new display is a lot easier than the old model. The old one needs a firmware wipe and update. It is going back to the dealer soon. Solar online shipped a replacement the day after the 1st one stopped charging, we got it to work next day but he didn't want to risk any further relapses. I ran the old one for 3 months after I had the new one, if he gets stuck with it after repair I might buy it reduced. In 8 years 15min swap.

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Yes, so if you have the CTs on the grid mains on your main panel, Solar and battery will be used to power loads on your AC Output connection and your AC Input up to the CTs. If solar and battery is insufficient, grid pies will supplement. Also, you can program the inverter to only use X amount of power from the battery if you want to (so you don’t completely drain the batteries).

Thanks! I'm not sure but it seems like the peak shift settings might also include selling back to the grid, which I cannot do. I would think you should be able to use the Time of Use settings for what you want to do and set the SOC to a high value overnight so the inverter would switch and charge from the grid during that time.

Agreed. Thankfully the worst thing I saw happen was just the corrupted labels on the display. Either that or it just wouldn’t load the data.

1 and 2. I know Ian is working on getting a changelog for all updates. 3. Yes it retains your current settings.

You're welcome! Glad it helped!

Thanks! I didn't see anything specifically. I would think any battery within the voltage range should work. Be aware that some charge controllers bridge the positive and negative pv connections together when the battery is full and charging is supposed to stop. That would instantly short circuit any connected battery through the pv terminal.

@@AdamDeLay07 Awesome, thanks for the heads up. Might regret it but I actually just pulled the trigger on a Dabbsson Prime day deal since there's more expandability options. I'll probably try something similar but I really like how they split the load across both inverters if I ended up just attaching a second unit to it.