Re: [RE-wrenches] Solectria TL woes

2020-02-25 Thread Andrew Truitt
I'm with you guys and we actually had a bad transformer bushing at this site initially which was causing exactly that issue. The site still runs high (498-508Vac nominal) but is well below the 528V default upper limit of the TLs, and the shut-offs are not correlated with higher AC voltages. Also

Re: [RE-wrenches] Web portal Insight2 not making remote changes for some.

2020-02-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
Concur with Sandra completely. All of my clients are having no problems with Insight2 as far as what Howie wrote. It has been very reliable for about a year now. The remote programming with Insight2 has had a few issues but it is on the sched to be fixed. Many are working fine but a few are

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solectria TL woes

2020-02-25 Thread Jason Szumlanski
It sure looks like it could be an AC voltage issue. Around here the utility voltage is often high in the morning and then gets dragged down when loads in the neighborhood spike from air conditioning (yes, even in winter here in Florida). We see drop-outs (with other brand inverters) in the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solectria TL woes

2020-02-25 Thread Jeff Irish, PE
Andrew, I've seen this in multiple inverter systems when the AC voltage gets pushed outside the upper limit by the inverter output currents. One or two inverters will cycle on-off, those with the lowest setting or tolerance. Cause can be (1) high AC voltage from the utility to start with, and/or

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solectria TL woes

2020-02-25 Thread Jerry Shafer
Andrew What is the AC Voltage when this occurs, to much VAC will shut down the inverter. It also looks like you are clipping all the inverters during the mid day, is due to low temps or does this always happen. What is the DC MPPT voltage, is it at the upper limit. Jerry NABCEP PV inspector On

[RE-wrenches] Solectria TL woes

2020-02-25 Thread Andrew Truitt
Wrenches, I have a couple of Solectria 36TLs at a small community solar site in CO that shut themselves down occasionally for what appears to be no reason. [image: image.png] Voltages and frequency are normal, firmware is updated, IR scan shows nothing irregular, and the other 2 inverters at

Re: [RE-wrenches] Web portal Insight2 not making remote changes for some.

2020-02-25 Thread Sandra Herrera
Howie, The “no communication” issues on Insight2 was solved when we update to Gateway firmware 1.05, and in parallel, we updated the Insight2 platform. The issue Dave is mentioning is on making programming changes. If you still have a site (with the latest firmware on the Gateway) but still no

Re: [RE-wrenches] Web portal Insight2 not making remote changes for some.

2020-02-25 Thread Howie Michaelson
Dave, Do these problems encompass having sites that previously were configured and operating on Insight2, but for at least the last month or 2 have shown up on the home page, but either show no connectivity or no devices? This has been my experience and it is a major issue since I sold my clients

[RE-wrenches] AIMS inverter

2020-02-25 Thread Kent Osterberg
Last week I was called to examine a solar power system installed by an Idaho electrical contractor. According to the owner of this system, this contractor has built several similar systems in the area. The owner's complaint was that the AGM batteries kept failing. The work was done without

[RE-wrenches] Web portal Insight2 not making remote changes for some.

2020-02-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
Hi Wrenches, Some who have been experiencing the inability to remotely control with Insight2 should know that a fix is on it's way. I got this yesterday. There was also a Gateway and mobile App update on the Schneider site. You may want to try it again soon and let me know please. Thx! "