The gold standard for understanding GTIL inverters and how it all functions. Took me a LOT of researching my own DIY setup…wish this video was available back then. What an asset for people to learn from, great video. Bravo!
Wow this is awesome, you know you have to show us how too stack them. Because 2 kilos isn’t enough. Please and give us more. There are no other videos as good as this one on the grid ties. Great job from Boncarbo Colorado.
very grateful for the great video I use this inverter here in my country where it is forbidden to export energy to the grid I learned a lot from your video to get the most out of the equipment's performance long live Australia! God blesses.
I greatly admire that even with people saying "oh that's a bad idea I wouldn't do that ect" too many people in this world think they know exactly what your situation is and exactly what you should do when the fact of the matter is they don't. I may not build things the way you or others do but by watching you go through your own trials, I learn a GREAT deal from it. NO ONE knows everything
... and I have tested these units now rather than installing them right away to see if it would work from a technical perspective. It would be a viable solution to my problem. And I wanted to share this here. Thanks for your feedback.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Your videos have convinced me to give them a try. I'm still researching how to use this on the US split phase. I see people have wired two CT sensors in series (or is that parallel) with a small resistor. Too bad this is not offered from SUN. Wonder if you ever used these and do you still recommend them? Your videos are immensely helpful.
This video provides product information with value to those of us who don’t feel the need to step out of the shower to pee. I thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration. If I had a home I’d definitely purchase one of those inverters to offset my power costs. Thanks Andy!
Thank you sir for this explanation of the sun2000. I have being looking for someone to teach me for months and the way you lay it out is so easy to understand and precise. Cheers
Great video Andy! It’s a genius device. Simple and seamless. I have not tried it myself (I’m completely off grid), but after seeing this video I started to think it might have a place in an off grid system after all…. My main problem with consumption is the “buffer” of maximum power I need to have. The bigger the inverter, the bigger the idle consumption. So I have a small inverter that I use for the easy loads, and a big, all-in-one that I only turn on when I’m to use microwave, washing machine, air compressor, etc. The difference in idle consumption between the two is around 25w, which doesn’t sound much, but since it’s 24/7, it makes a huge difference. The idle consumption of the device you test seems to be extremely low. So my idea here is that I might go even lower, just using a 300w-something inverter as a waveformer and use this device as a “dynamic buffer”. Do you think it would work?
Have you figured it out? Id like to be able to disconnect from the grid and "trick" an inverter like this somehow (preferably not with a generator) in a shtf situation. It seems you'd want a pure sine wave inverter to feed into it for it to get a clean signal.
If there is such a thing as a small inverter that you can set an output limit on and keep it from overloading then you would be golden but Im not sure if there is such an inverter. Would suck to overload your small inverter and the whole thing go down. It seems like redundancy is the only way to accomplish some things with solar, at least in a grid tied situation. It's unfortunate at the moment...
I am very concerned about the build quality in terms of the power rating. Many chinese products don't live up to the specs. Der Kanal has had some in for repair with and without success in fixing them.
I've been using the 2kw GTIL for a year in the US. No problems. Fantastic device. I've taken to calling it my little buddy as it works away pushing watts into the house. One of these days I will make a video on the specifics.
How do you prevent any potential back feeding during a power outage situation? I'm interested in doing something like this, but only if I can safely prevent it from going back on the grid.
@@OhDannyBoy2k yep, it's a grid tied inverter it needs the heartbeat of the grid. For safety reasons they all have to turn off immediately if the grid goes down. It's called anti-islanding.
Thank you very much for this video it pretty much showed me everything about this inverter and this is exactly what I need, a big thank you from the Dominican Republic
Glad you are using the Ecoworthy/SUN/GTIL inverters. No need for wire extensions. It is just 2 wires for the current sensor that run 0 to 5V. Just cut and add wire as needed. You can also adjust the sensitivity of the current sensor, I added a 2k trimpot that makes the inverter think I am using less watts than I really am. I don't think the inverter responds fast enough when a load is stopped so it backfeeds a little without tweaking with the trimpot.
@@benkanobe7500What do you need a schematic for? It's 2 wires. Cut the wire and split in a longer length. The resistor isn't necessary but you just put it on one wire.
Bought 1 one year ago, now i have 3, each for one phase. Using it with solar to charge battery and this inverters connected to the 14s Li-ion battery. They work really nice. I recently added wind turbine aswell ;)
Thanks for sharing. I'm interested in a wind turbine setup myself. Not that we have super high winds here but from the general perspective and how it would integrate.
I used three phase bridge rectifier connected directly to the inverters(since they already have the capacitors to do the smoothing) and for brake i used arduino to check for high voltage and set pwm signal to do the braking on ssr relay connected to the heat brake depended on the high voltage. But so i don't discharge battery i used one diode in bettwen so it actuall brake the turbine and not drain battery. I coul use the controller that came with the turbine but i read that they fail on high winds (which i do have sometimes).
@@OffGridGarageAustralia the newer turbine don't need much wind like a 9blade one. It might not be windy on the ground but you put your wind meter or turbine up about 40ft and it's alot stronger then ground level. A turbine works better when the solar weather is poor e.g. wet windy stormy teribble for solar but great for wind, wind blows 24/7 so the decrease in performance can be made up with increased run time.
@@DanielSan-ch7dr We have like 130ft trees around us so I can see how the wind situation is, direction and strength. I might try it at some stage, but it's a lot of effort to put up the mast, make it all secure... we will see...
The idea of this limiter used in this Grid tied inverter belongs to Rogel Naval a Filipino Engineer based in Manila. He had this made with masspower in China. It's called Grid Tied Inverter with Limiter or as we know it as GTIL. It's first version has an external limiter which is now phased out, what you see here is the version 2 that has an internal limiter. I had both versions and the version 2 with 22v-60v runs on 48v LiFePO4 batteries. Simple to use. Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Thanks again Andy! Mine SUN 2000 is just a few steps way from us - just got an alert that it’s just landed in Auckland - it might take couple of days (or weeks? hopefully not) to Christchurch - rewatching your video for the settings to be prepared. Thank you! Will try to buy you few SPAT’s ;)
Very good video. Thank you. I plan to sell power to grid from my battery when the price are high, (when I know I have that extra power) Your video made me feel confident to buy one. 👍🏻
I have this inverter . At the beginning on the screen when its in red letters start up volt to low. You skip that step and I can not figure out how you got rid of that? Do I need the power controller to turn up and down our power as I do not have that controller. Do you have a video on the step I can not seem to get passed?
It gives me great pleasure to watch your videos with simple and to-the-point explanations. It would have been wonderful if this inverter had an input from the batteries and could set the automatic switch at a given time from the solar panels to the battery, thus ensuring operation at night or on very cloudy days. Thanks again for this interesting video material.
You don't need any switch. Just add a charge controller from your solar panels to your batteries and connect the inverter directly to your batteries. This way your solar will charge your batteries and the grid tie will run off batteries day and night or until your batteries get too low. If it does shut down at night due to low batteries it will come back on the next day automatically as soon as your batteries get to your reboot voltage.
Thanks Andy, very well done info session. I currently have a garrage that only has body corporate lighting installed. This sounds like the perfect solution (with a few panels on the roof) to have a daylight power source without the fear of inflating the body corporate electricity bill. You are a bloody legend!
SUN-2000GTIL2 Does not save settings. Changes in settings, default to YES, and Press setting button does not save. Any ideas? Is there a factory reset on these units? Thanks for the help.
We have the 2000 watt version however it stopped working do they have an internal fuse it says lifetime warranty what's the page on Amazon disappeared thank you in advance
To pre charge the capacitors what should I do when I connect the inverter to sold the first time? What do you recommend I saw people connecting a resistor but im not sure.
I have a issue with mine. When I go to the settings and select the internal limiter and make the "bat or solar limited power mode 650watts. I only get ten watts out of the inverter. When I turn the internal limiter off it goes to the higher watts. Why is the limiter only getting to ten watts? not sure what the issue is.
I have 4 of these same types of types of tigrids and verters but nowhere can I find on how much amps can run through these machines we know how much voltage can run but how much amps can you put through these machines I want to know if I can take a 48 voteight 8 vote battery called Reynold rhino from big batteries Which has 276 AH Is that too much amp hours or is this OK I can't find in the destructions or any RUclips videos to tell the capability on how much amperage can run through these machines
Depends on which model you have. There should be a label on the side with the information you need. The one I tested went from 40-90V input voltage from the solar or battery side. The higher the output, the more amps it pulls from the battery.
The have a power limit . I would like the inverter to regulate the input dc voltage not the power . With this mode you could set up maximum and minimum dc voltage and the inverter would regulate the dc input to keep the voltage inside the user defined limits . Can this be done ?
I Had 2 of those already, work as described , easy to use and very versatile. The only problem is the excess heat when used above 1.5KW with the Battery voltage around 50v, mine have both burned out. If you plan to use more than 1.5kw in a sustain way, better to have a much higher battery voltage to reduce the DC input Amps .
This is a great suggestion. Limit the amps so that never producing over 1500w and for the 1kw limit the amps so the inverter won’t produce over 750w. I use a 60v nominal lithium battery to power both of my 2kw inverters. Voltage goes up to 64v. This is a good voltage to run the 45-90v inverters if using batteries. 48v battery is really to low to use with the 45-90v inverter. That low of voltage will make the inverter use more amps which isn’t good for it. For the 22-65v version a 48v battery is great
@@RJ-cc1fz I see you have got useful information here. I am concerned about the build quality in those inverters. In my opinion Chinese products are like, if they say 2000W for example you can assume it to be more like a 1000W device. So, you are saying if I was to build a system with the 2000W version for battery use, the battery pack voltage should be closer to the 90V DC range.
@@repairman2be250No it doesn't need to be that high. The max input amps is 35ah with 85% efficiency. So you need a 65v battery to get the full 2kw. So a 20s lifepo4 would be perfect here.
cool video, after 2 years this unit stopped working, we have check the DC fuses, , all good, AC legs are both good. in put but the unit died, do we need to replace all teh mosfets?
Hi Andy, do you know if the limit sensor is bidirectional? As I have two systems and only want the battery one to produce power when the other one (non battery) stops feeding the grid.
Hi there Thank you for the great video! 🙂 I do have a question that i hope you can help me out with. 😬 In your video at minute 12:13 through 12:25 , it shows that you have 53v comming in the inverter but your watt production is at 0.0w. You say it is on stand by. 🧐 How do you get out of stand by? 🤔 I am asking you cause, i use 2 of the same inverters but for wind turbine and even though i feed them with 53v or even 58v (depends on the wind) both inverters are never producing any power! I am getting really disappointed in the whole system. 😕 I thank you, in advance, for your time and answer.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia hi again and thank you for the quick reply. 👍🏻🙂 When the limiter option is on i get those 50 or 50+ volts in the inverter. When the limiter is off then the inverter brakes the wind turbine to a flat 20-22 volt. Both options ends up in no power production. 😕
@Off-Grid Garage sorry for the question but I am still learning. 1) is it good practise to plug the AC into a plug socket? I don't want to wire it into my main board as I don't want to touch anything there because I will be moving soon and I want to take the system with me. Is there some way I could maybe wire it to it's own breaker and from there to a plug socket, or is this still dangerous? 2) if I'm running panels to a battery and battery to the inverter then I would have to buy a separate MPPT controller to put on the other side of the battery? There would be no way for it to control it? This is only for panels connected directly? Thank you
If i were to use this inverter along side a solar array already would it produce 0 watts if the existing inverter is feeding power back to the grid and the ct clamp reads negative numbers? A family member gets paid a generous generation tariff for their current system but doesnt have battery storage (old inverter) they are wanting to use a system like this to cover load at night but not feedback to the grid from this system during the day. Any feedback from users would be much appreciated
Absolutely beautiful, bought one off your link so hopefully you got a beer out of it. Just connected 48V Lead Acid battery bank and the sensor (incredible bit of tech) and plugged it in and Wow free elec running round the house. Can you do a 2 inverter to 1 live line Vid as I need more power man. Just waiting for the sun to shine in the UK (may take a while :)
I bought one of these (the 1kw 24v model) upon seeing Andy's demonstration and am taking care of standby power (grander plans ahead). I have a victron shunt and 2 victron charge controllers which I monitor via VRM. There is a RS485 output of the sun inverter. Does anyone know if this can be connect via my raspi running venusOS so it can be monitored via VRM? Thanks in advance.
Thanks great video, have a question. I am in the UK where the Neutral is bonded to earth. If I add mcb and rcb between the inverter and my house mains, will the rcb work? Will there be any problems with grounding?
hi i ben conecting 2 sun 2000 GTIL2 INVERTERS ,they work for couple the monts very good, and they stop working if happen to me 3 times i have to buy the inverters again,any ideas way the blow up,
Dear Sir, I have a small question related to this 2000W SUN GTIL2 inverter. My solarpanels are CanadianSolar with each 455 Wp and these specifications: PMax: 455W; Imp: 11.02A; Vmp:41.3V; Voc: 49.3V; Isc: 11.66A Since the input voltage should be between 45-90V and in your video it shows that it "kicked in" at a little more than 50V I don't know how to connect the panels to the inverter. How many panels can I connect and how many parallel, how many in series?
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Thank you sir. That's too bad, because it looks such a nice inverter and you explained it so well. Next time when I add some panels I make sure they are not so big and I can use this inverter. Thanks again. I also subscribed to your channel, because you have many interesting videos :).
After two years of use, it presents me with a grid error, and I don't know how to correct it, technical assistance is needed from the manufacturer or I already consider it within the disposable Chinese products.
Can these 2000w models be used in US? I thought several videos had mentioned only the 1000w/120ac models work in the states? For the 2k models do you need 2 sensors? one for each 120 branch of the 240 grid power input to your homes panel?
Hello and thank you for your great video .... but what happen if grid go down i wonder if there any way to keep invertet running even when grid is down
The remote number is for the rs485 identity. If you change it the wifi dongle Will not work. I am trying to control the export with a raspberry pi. However I do not have a clamp do you know what the voltage or preferably waveform looks like. Also if you press and hold the top 2 buttons on power on you get the firmware menu. Thanks for clarifying the reboot voltage now I know why it only kicks back in at 27 volts. Mine is just for controlling a wind turbine. Thanks in advance.
Question, what grid of power is the power supply that you use comes from, is it the same grid that you use to power ON the lightings that you are testing?
Could you please tell me if this would work with a 600 w windmill and a 100w solar panel.? Edit not how well or what to expect ... Just would this work
nice, I have a wind turbine hooked up to mine and I am a bit reluctant to use the limiter cos I dont know what happens to any excess power produced. I assume it goes into the dump load (no batteries) but if it doesnt could it unload the turbine? which would be very bad.
Yes, although the one that came with it is 10 ohms and the one recommended by the turbine manufacturer is 4 ohms which I do not have. Any idea who to contact about the inverter as it has a blue internal light flashing about once a second I have another in which the light is steady and assume a fault of some kind but can't find the manufacturers to ask.
Hi Andy! big hello from italy! just an ask, what if i'll give the grid to another bigger inverter (with no limiter functions) from this with limiter (i mean to connect the AC output of the sun gtil2 to the AC input of another inverter)? the surplus energy of the main inverter go back to the gtil2 and what will happen? shoud be a trick for have limiter function to an inverter that don't have it?
Hi Ross and hello to Italy. That is a bad idea unless the 2nd inverter is a Victron Multiplus II or Quattro which can handle AC input from another inverter.
I've just had solar installed and they have connected the inverter direct to the grid side of my smart meter so i have to pay for all the energy I use. I asked why and they said that if the inverter was connected to the house mains and I used more than it was producing it would cut out.
so what happens if the grid goes off like last time? you switch to your victron system to power your house? on which phase? system is getting heavy with too many components while they can be one. there are hybrid inverters that also has grid supply control like this one.
Does anyone have a part number for the connector the limiter uses? I want to make an extension cable for mine. Sure I could cut and splice.. But I'd rather be able to shorten it again if I chose.
i was looking for a situation where i have off-grid a small inverter with a battery that can suck extra energy from a generator when i turn on an electric oven... is that even possible? edit: i don't want to overhaul and upscale the whole pv/battery/inverter/cabling system because it is sufficient. we only would like to add an electric oven somehow....
Will this Inverter SUN-2000GTIL2-H take a 48V battery bank...I connected a 48V battery bank to + and - and blew the unit.??? Any suggestions?Can you attach 48V battery bank (100AH each) directly to the + and - terminals of the SUN-2000GTIL2-H ?? Please advise...Thank you. I connected 48V battery bank to the + and - correctly and blew the unit??? Any suggestion. My unit is the 2000W Grid Tie Inverter Power Limiter LCD Display DC50-90V Solar Input AC185-265V Output SUN-2000GTIL2-H
No, they are not bonded in this inverter. That would be fatal. The MEN link is in your meter panel or distribution panel. It is only inside an inverter if it is an off-grid inverter.
Could you integrate a 48v battery and solar panels using this inverter w/o other equipment? I'm struggling to see how this could be done, unless I'm missing something. Say I had a 75V solar panel. It almost looks like the system would require an additional charge controller to have the PV charge the batteries and make it all work? Basically the 75v solar panel feeding a charge controller, feeding the 48V battery, feeding this inverter, then tied to the panel/load... or could it all be handled by this inverter? Is there a cheaper way to do it?
Great informative video,thank you. I don’t get the constant nitpicking by the know all keyboard warriors? You are here to inform so the so called adults can make a judgement for THEMSELVES as to whether they should buy the product or not. It really is that simple guys. Fyi i have just installed a 3.2kw solar array with 2 SOK server rack batteries and i have just bought a 1.4kw micro inverter to feed directly into my ring main grid. After watching this video i realise should of bought one these grid tie inverters instead 🤦🏻♂️ they seem more user friendly. But hey we’re all still learning about this stuff. Thanks again
Sorry, hit enter too soon. Somewhere along the way watching your videos, I misplaced the link to the resistors you used to precharge the capacitors so there is not a larger spark. Possible to post that link or send me to the right place.
This is the best explanation of how these work on RUclips. Thank You. I have a question: If using batteries (I assume for after sunset) with only a maximum of 1000 Watts of daytime solar, would the inverter be able to recharge the batteries if they ran all night supplying 1000 Watts to the house and still be able to provide power to the house during the day or would it need to be dedicated to just recharging batteries. I am a little confused on that part.
This inverter does not have a charger. It's not a hybrid inverter. It's grid tied with power support. So it will deliver the energy used by your load as long as possible until the set low voltage cut-off is reached. The grid will then deliver the energy again until the voltage in your battery rises and the SUN takes over again.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I am doing a bad job explaining so thank you for continuing to answer my dumb questions. If I want to take advantage of my large battery bank (AGM) at night, do I connect my panels to an appropriate charge controller that is then connected to my battery bank that is continuously connected my inverter? I would set the inverter to cut off at 37.30 or so VDC to be conservative to my batteries and then the inverter would restart in the morning when solar made voltage climb to set level?? I think you see how I want to use the inverter. Am I doing it correctly if as described above?
@@benkanobe7500 no dumb questions here at all. How you describe it here, that's exactly as it should be, The inverter should turn off at a set voltage to prevent the battery from being discharged further while the BMS does not trigger in this case and still acts like a safety switch to protect the battery if something goes wrong. Perfect setup.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I'm a bit confused. As this has a MPPT solar controller, if you have a battery bank that you want to use with this, you would not be able to use the MPPT solar controller from this inverter?? Would the set up be - Solar Panels to Solar Controller to Battery Bank then from Battery bank back to Inverter ?
Some reviews on Amazon about this backfeeding even with the limiters in place. Most utilities now days that have a smart meter will be alerted to this backfeeding. One review he says it was back feeding during a power outage a utility worker noticed power still on the grid after they cut the power going to the feed lines. Here in the US when you grid tie you required to have insurance in case of injury from back feeding to the grid while they are repairing it. Not sure how often that happens. I would imagine it is very rare.
i have a pair of 1000w sun inverters with LIMITERS and now have a 48v battery, noticing that switching on n off high load, the inverter shows NEGATIVE watts for brief period......any thoughts or have you observed this phenomena? i live in california
The way I understand this, with this inverter one would need on for each circuit in your house. Most houses in the USA have 5 or 6 circuits. Is this correct?
For this inverter, if how many watts maximum panels I can use? If I will use 1200watts panels, but keep the corect voltage it will ok? Or I must add maximum 1000watts panels? Thank you very much
Good day, Andy. It’s now 10pm here in upstate New York. This is an off subject question. I noticed your location has the sun in a low arch across your northern sky. Your panels don’t get much sun because of the tree growth. Have a ever thought of cutting the tops out so you would be blessed with more direct sun. I really enjoy all of your posts, and I hope you continue with such informative , ( I call them tutorial’s). Thank you so much. Be blessed.
SOME do have RS485. I've just ordered a pair (should be here in a few days?) that support it. Where my main panel is vs the inverters/batteries/etc is about 100ft gap, so went that route since RS485 can be run ~1000ft.
Thanks for the overview. There is similar model for 3-phase wind power generators. Do you think it can be used with solar instead (at the end of the day the 3-phase AC input is converted to DC inside the box).
I don't think it is convert to DC actually, these are grid tie inverters which don't charge a battery. The inverter for wind power cannot be used for solar, no.
Hi I have got the same inverters but they came with ac output L1 N L2 anybody knows how to wire the outputs to an single phase 230vac or have in for the manual isn't any help
I am from Iraq I bought one from Amazon, mine does not working what ever I tried it does not work. Is their any way to or guild line to connecting in right way.
Do you need net metering or a bidirectional meter for this to work or do you just plug it in... interesting device.. is there a legal. Limit.. im assuming it won't output unless there is a load for it...
exactly, zero export / full auto-consumption only with limiter, new version have external limiter or use soyosource who use modbus and you can use IoT to this.
@YTBySIB I would guess that the load needs to be 2x the max Output in order to use the max output. Basically, u have 2 parallel power sources feeding sub panel. Path of least resistance. So if u limit to say 400w u would need 800w of load. 400 from the device and 400 from grid.
Excellent video and TNX also, I use the same in my grid tie setup with limiter since I have to pay if sending power into the grid, I produce a sine wave with a small generator in case power goes out and the gtil will kick in again and produce sun energy for my use as necessary.
hi Andy, because of you i am building a 28kw 48v battery and i want to be able to sell back my power in the summer, and this inverter makes a lot off sense to make this happen. BUT will this inverter stop sending power in the grid when the grid go down? so like workers cut the cable. because no power can flow when the grid is down to protect the workers and the grid. do you know if this inverter does this? thanks
The gold standard for understanding GTIL inverters and how it all functions. Took me a LOT of researching my own DIY setup…wish this video was available back then. What an asset for people to learn from, great video. Bravo!
I have the same 2kw inverter. He make a very good Job for now 2 years. He produze 3560kwh without any Problems. Thats amasing. I love these inverter.
Wow this is awesome, you know you have to show us how too stack them. Because 2 kilos isn’t enough. Please and give us more. There are no other videos as good as this one on the grid ties. Great job from Boncarbo Colorado.
I have 2 of these inverters connected in parallel and I think you have the best video for explaining the device 👏
very grateful for the great video I use this inverter here in my country where it is forbidden to export energy to the grid I learned a lot from your video to get the most out of the equipment's performance
long live Australia!
God blesses.
Glad it helped. Thank you.
I greatly admire that even with people saying "oh that's a bad idea I wouldn't do that ect" too many people in this world think they know exactly what your situation is and exactly what you should do when the fact of the matter is they don't. I may not build things the way you or others do but by watching you go through your own trials, I learn a GREAT deal from it. NO ONE knows everything
... and I have tested these units now rather than installing them right away to see if it would work from a technical perspective. It would be a viable solution to my problem. And I wanted to share this here.
Thanks for your feedback.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Your videos have convinced me to give them a try. I'm still researching how to use this on the US split phase. I see people have wired two CT sensors in series (or is that parallel) with a small resistor. Too bad this is not offered from SUN. Wonder if you ever used these and do you still recommend them? Your videos are immensely helpful.
This video provides product information with value to those of us who don’t feel the need to step out of the shower to pee. I thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration. If I had a home I’d definitely purchase one of those inverters to offset my power costs. Thanks Andy!
Thank you sir for this explanation of the sun2000. I have being looking for someone to teach me for months and the way you lay it out is so easy to understand and precise.
Cheers
app for smartphone?
Is it possible to simulate a grid power by using a pure sinewave DC/AC converter/charger for this grid-tie inverter ?
I was wondering that myself, no needed wasting sunshine or batteries during a grid outage 😊
Great video Andy! It’s a genius device. Simple and seamless. I have not tried it myself (I’m completely off grid), but after seeing this video I started to think it might have a place in an off grid system after all….
My main problem with consumption is the “buffer” of maximum power I need to have. The bigger the inverter, the bigger the idle consumption. So I have a small inverter that I use for the easy loads, and a big, all-in-one that I only turn on when I’m to use microwave, washing machine, air compressor, etc. The difference in idle consumption between the two is around 25w, which doesn’t sound much, but since it’s 24/7, it makes a huge difference.
The idle consumption of the device you test seems to be extremely low.
So my idea here is that I might go even lower, just using a 300w-something inverter as a waveformer and use this device as a “dynamic buffer”. Do you think it would work?
Have you figured it out? Id like to be able to disconnect from the grid and "trick" an inverter like this somehow (preferably not with a generator) in a shtf situation. It seems you'd want a pure sine wave inverter to feed into it for it to get a clean signal.
@@lancealderman2755 No, I was hoping that Andy would test it since he had the device, but seems he sent it back for some reason 🤷🏼♂️
If there is such a thing as a small inverter that you can set an output limit on and keep it from overloading then you would be golden but Im not sure if there is such an inverter. Would suck to overload your small inverter and the whole thing go down.
It seems like redundancy is the only way to accomplish some things with solar, at least in a grid tied situation. It's unfortunate at the moment...
@@lancealderman2755 If the sun2000 is quick enough providing power, that scenario should not surface. That is what I would have liked Andy to test….
Oh you want to feed the Sun 2000 with a battery bank?
I've just purchased the 2000w with limiter for use in my shed, here in England. Fantastic info, thank you..
I am very concerned about the build quality in terms of the power rating. Many chinese products don't live up to the specs. Der Kanal has had some in for repair with and without success in fixing them.
Stuart mate, I've just bought some panels and so now looking into grid tie inverter, do you use just solar? Or do you use batteries aswell?
I've been using the 2kw GTIL for a year in the US. No problems. Fantastic device. I've taken to calling it my little buddy as it works away pushing watts into the house. One of these days I will make a video on the specifics.
You've got the YT channel, so go for it.
How do you prevent any potential back feeding during a power outage situation? I'm interested in doing something like this, but only if I can safely prevent it from going back on the grid.
I think I've answered my own question - if the grid goes down, so does this system.
Would love to see more details on how you rigged this.
@@OhDannyBoy2k yep, it's a grid tied inverter it needs the heartbeat of the grid. For safety reasons they all have to turn off immediately if the grid goes down. It's called anti-islanding.
Thank you very much for this video it pretty much showed me everything about this inverter and this is exactly what I need, a big thank you from the Dominican Republic
Great inverter, I have one too. For off-grid you can use the Victron to fool the GTIL2 into thinking there is grid power.
Excellent, thank you for spending the time to do such a thorough job of explaining this product
Glad you are using the Ecoworthy/SUN/GTIL inverters. No need for wire extensions. It is just 2 wires for the current sensor that run 0 to 5V. Just cut and add wire as needed. You can also adjust the sensitivity of the current sensor, I added a 2k trimpot that makes the inverter think I am using less watts than I really am. I don't think the inverter responds fast enough when a load is stopped so it backfeeds a little without tweaking with the trimpot.
Ah, right, I was wondering about this. They say you can extend up to 20m only though.
Could you show a schematic or links for us non-technical people? This sounds like an excellent idea!
@@benkanobe7500What do you need a schematic for? It's 2 wires. Cut the wire and split in a longer length. The resistor isn't necessary but you just put it on one wire.
@@shawnd567 Hey thanks. I feel stupid now. Great job!
Bought 1 one year ago, now i have 3, each for one phase. Using it with solar to charge battery and this inverters connected to the 14s Li-ion battery. They work really nice. I recently added wind turbine aswell ;)
Thanks for sharing. I'm interested in a wind turbine setup myself. Not that we have super high winds here but from the general perspective and how it would integrate.
I used three phase bridge rectifier connected directly to the inverters(since they already have the capacitors to do the smoothing) and for brake i used arduino to check for high voltage and set pwm signal to do the braking on ssr relay connected to the heat brake depended on the high voltage. But so i don't discharge battery i used one diode in bettwen so it actuall brake the turbine and not drain battery. I coul use the controller that came with the turbine but i read that they fail on high winds (which i do have sometimes).
@@OffGridGarageAustralia the newer turbine don't need much wind like a 9blade one. It might not be windy on the ground but you put your wind meter or turbine up about 40ft and it's alot stronger then ground level.
A turbine works better when the solar weather is poor e.g. wet windy stormy teribble for solar but great for wind, wind blows 24/7 so the decrease in performance can be made up with increased run time.
@@DanielSan-ch7dr We have like 130ft trees around us so I can see how the wind situation is, direction and strength. I might try it at some stage, but it's a lot of effort to put up the mast, make it all secure... we will see...
The idea of this limiter used in this Grid tied inverter belongs to Rogel Naval a Filipino Engineer based in Manila. He had this made with masspower in China. It's called Grid Tied Inverter with Limiter or as we know it as GTIL. It's first version has an external limiter which is now phased out, what you see here is the version 2 that has an internal limiter. I had both versions and the version 2 with 22v-60v runs on 48v LiFePO4 batteries. Simple to use. Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Thanks a lot for sharing, Ian. That is great info!
Question sir : is there any low wattagge limiter, in 18:55 you show an upper limit., but theres no lower limit..
Great video, The print in the booklet was so small that it is hard to read. You saved me a lot of frustration'
I had to watch this a few times, regardless of how simple you made, oh wow has this given me what I needed
Thanks again Andy! Mine SUN 2000 is just a few steps way from us - just got an alert that it’s just landed in Auckland - it might take couple of days (or weeks? hopefully not) to Christchurch - rewatching your video for the settings to be prepared. Thank you! Will try to buy you few SPAT’s ;)
Öttinger Bier ich schmeiss mich voll weg!!! Jetzt hab ich all deine Videos durch. Respekt!
Very good video. Thank you. I plan to sell power to grid from my battery when the price are high,
(when I know I have that extra power)
Your video made me feel confident to buy one. 👍🏻
thank you for review . bought SUN GTIL2 and i'm very happy, works very well
I have this inverter . At the beginning on the screen when its in red letters start up volt to low. You skip that step and I can not figure out how you got rid of that? Do I need the power controller to turn up and down our power as I do not have that controller. Do you have a video on the step I can not seem to get passed?
How to open the assembly (fac) settings which pops up after the first start? settings got saved badly?
Your reaction at 4:30 made me laugh so hard everyone in the office turned around! Lucky I’m watching this in my lunch break…
He always seems so happy when speaking English, brightens my day up, awesome guy there should be more like him in the world
Vidéo d'explication très pédagogique, merci Andy !
It gives me great pleasure to watch your videos with simple and to-the-point explanations. It would have been wonderful if this inverter had an input from the batteries and could set the automatic switch at a given time from the solar panels to the battery, thus ensuring operation at night or on very cloudy days. Thanks again for this interesting video material.
You don't need any switch. Just add a charge controller from your solar panels to your batteries and connect the inverter directly to your batteries. This way your solar will charge your batteries and the grid tie will run off batteries day and night or until your batteries get too low. If it does shut down at night due to low batteries it will come back on the next day automatically as soon as your batteries get to your reboot voltage.
Thanks Andy, very well done info session. I currently have a garrage that only has body corporate lighting installed. This sounds like the perfect solution (with a few panels on the roof) to have a daylight power source without the fear of inflating the body corporate electricity bill. You are a bloody legend!
SUN-2000GTIL2 Does not save settings. Changes in settings, default to YES, and Press setting button does not save. Any ideas? Is there a factory reset on these units? Thanks for the help.
I have same inverter but my field "cut off voltage" is greyed out, so i cant even choose it to change... this is strange.
We have the 2000 watt version however it stopped working do they have an internal fuse it says lifetime warranty what's the page on Amazon disappeared thank you in advance
To pre charge the capacitors what should I do when I connect the inverter to sold the first time? What do you recommend I saw people connecting a resistor but im not sure.
I have a issue with mine. When I go to the settings and select the internal limiter and make the "bat or solar limited power mode 650watts. I only get ten watts out of the inverter. When I turn the internal limiter off it goes to the higher watts. Why is the limiter only getting to ten watts? not sure what the issue is.
I have 4 of these same types of types of tigrids and verters but nowhere can I find on how much amps can run through these machines we know how much voltage can run but how much amps can you put through these machines I want to know if I can take a 48 voteight 8 vote battery called Reynold rhino from big batteries Which has 276 AH Is that too much amp hours or is this OK I can't find in the destructions or any RUclips videos to tell the capability on how much amperage can run through these machines
Depends on which model you have. There should be a label on the side with the information you need. The one I tested went from 40-90V input voltage from the solar or battery side.
The higher the output, the more amps it pulls from the battery.
The have a power limit . I would like the inverter to regulate the input dc voltage not the power . With this mode you could set up maximum and minimum dc voltage and the inverter would regulate the dc input to keep the voltage inside the user defined limits . Can this be done ?
I Had 2 of those already, work as described , easy to use and very versatile. The only problem is the excess heat when used above 1.5KW with the Battery voltage around 50v, mine have both burned out. If you plan to use more than 1.5kw in a sustain way, better to have a much higher battery voltage to reduce the DC input Amps .
This is a great suggestion. Limit the amps so that never producing over 1500w and for the 1kw limit the amps so the inverter won’t produce over 750w. I use a 60v nominal lithium battery to power both of my 2kw inverters. Voltage goes up to 64v. This is a good voltage to run the 45-90v inverters if using batteries. 48v battery is really to low to use with the 45-90v inverter. That low of voltage will make the inverter use more amps which isn’t good for it. For the 22-65v version a 48v battery is great
@@RJ-cc1fz I see you have got useful information here. I am concerned about the build quality in those inverters. In my opinion Chinese products are like, if they say 2000W for example you can assume it to be more like a 1000W device. So, you are saying if I was to build a system with the 2000W version for battery use, the battery pack voltage should be closer to the 90V DC range.
@@repairman2be250No it doesn't need to be that high. The max input amps is 35ah with 85% efficiency. So you need a 65v battery to get the full 2kw. So a 20s lifepo4 would be perfect here.
cool video, after 2 years this unit stopped working, we have check the DC fuses, , all good, AC legs are both good. in put but the unit died, do we need to replace all teh mosfets?
Hi Andy, do you know if the limit sensor is bidirectional? As I have two systems and only want the battery one to produce power when the other one (non battery) stops feeding the grid.
it is possible to connect a storage battery to this inverter adding a charge regulator?
hi there, I have 2kw 45-90v Wind grid always show voltage to low ,do you know what dam setting I should do? many thanks
Hi there
Thank you for the great video! 🙂
I do have a question that i hope you can help me out with. 😬
In your video at minute 12:13 through 12:25 , it shows that you have 53v comming in the inverter but your watt production is at 0.0w. You say it is on stand by. 🧐
How do you get out of stand by? 🤔
I am asking you cause, i use 2 of the same inverters but for wind turbine and even though i feed them with 53v or even 58v (depends on the wind) both inverters are never producing any power!
I am getting really disappointed in the whole system. 😕
I thank you, in advance, for your time and answer.
Do you use the limiter option? If not, you have to turn this off in the settings.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia hi again and thank you for the quick reply. 👍🏻🙂
When the limiter option is on i get those 50 or 50+ volts in the inverter.
When the limiter is off then the inverter brakes the wind turbine to a flat 20-22 volt.
Both options ends up in no power production. 😕
@@sevastianosprenta7471
Try to limit the power it is allowed to supply. You should be able to find a sweet spot where it works I would think.
Ordered one the other day thanks for the video on this Andy nice to see it in action thank you sir
No problem 👍
@Off-Grid Garage sorry for the question but I am still learning.
1) is it good practise to plug the AC into a plug socket? I don't want to wire it into my main board as I don't want to touch anything there because I will be moving soon and I want to take the system with me. Is there some way I could maybe wire it to it's own breaker and from there to a plug socket, or is this still dangerous?
2) if I'm running panels to a battery and battery to the inverter then I would have to buy a separate MPPT controller to put on the other side of the battery? There would be no way for it to control it? This is only for panels connected directly?
Thank you
I've been running mine for about 3 months and now it won't go over 950W.... any idea what I should do to troubleshoot?
If i were to use this inverter along side a solar array already would it produce 0 watts if the existing inverter is feeding power back to the grid and the ct clamp reads negative numbers? A family member gets paid a generous generation tariff for their current system but doesnt have battery storage (old inverter) they are wanting to use a system like this to cover load at night but not feedback to the grid from this system during the day. Any feedback from users would be much appreciated
Absolutely beautiful, bought one off your link so hopefully you got a beer out of it. Just connected 48V Lead Acid battery bank and the sensor (incredible bit of tech) and plugged it in and Wow free elec running round the house. Can you do a 2 inverter to 1 live line Vid as I need more power man. Just waiting for the sun to shine in the UK (may take a while :)
I bought one of these (the 1kw 24v model) upon seeing Andy's demonstration and am taking care of standby power (grander plans ahead). I have a victron shunt and 2 victron charge controllers which I monitor via VRM. There is a RS485 output of the sun inverter. Does anyone know if this can be connect via my raspi running venusOS so it can be monitored via VRM? Thanks in advance.
Great question!
can i connect 48v 800w wind turbine via charge controller or rectifier?
Thanks great video, have a question. I am in the UK where the Neutral is bonded to earth. If I add mcb and rcb between the inverter and my house mains, will the rcb work? Will there be any problems with grounding?
We have the same MEN link here in AU. Yes, RCD will work just fine, no problem at all. Consider using an MCBO (MCB and RCD combined).
hi i ben conecting 2 sun 2000 GTIL2 INVERTERS ,they work for couple the monts very good, and they stop working if happen to me 3 times i have to buy the inverters again,any ideas way the blow up,
Dear Sir,
I have a small question related to this 2000W SUN GTIL2 inverter.
My solarpanels are CanadianSolar with each 455 Wp and these specifications:
PMax: 455W; Imp: 11.02A; Vmp:41.3V; Voc: 49.3V; Isc: 11.66A
Since the input voltage should be between 45-90V and in your video it shows that it "kicked in" at a little more than 50V I don't know how to connect the panels to the inverter. How many panels can I connect and how many parallel, how many in series?
The inverter can handle a max input voltage of 90V. So the panels you have are not suitable for this inverter.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Thank you sir. That's too bad, because it looks such a nice inverter and you explained it so well. Next time when I add some panels I make sure they are not so big and I can use this inverter. Thanks again. I also subscribed to your channel, because you have many interesting videos :).
After two years of use, it presents me with a grid error, and I don't know how to correct it, technical assistance is needed from the manufacturer or I already consider it within the disposable Chinese products.
If you still connected to the grid how dose your house know to only pull from the gti. Until said limit is exceeded
Note to self watch the video fully before commenting
Can these 2000w models be used in US? I thought several videos had mentioned only the 1000w/120ac models work in the states?
For the 2k models do you need 2 sensors? one for each 120 branch of the 240 grid power input to your homes panel?
yes, it can. To answer your CT question, yes you do. I created a video of my setup to explain.
Hello and thank you for your great video .... but what happen if grid go down i wonder if there any way to keep invertet running even when grid is down
The remote number is for the rs485 identity. If you change it the wifi dongle Will not work. I am trying to control the export with a raspberry pi. However I do not have a clamp do you know what the voltage or preferably waveform looks like. Also if you press and hold the top 2 buttons on power on you get the firmware menu. Thanks for clarifying the reboot voltage now I know why it only kicks back in at 27 volts. Mine is just for controlling a wind turbine. Thanks in advance.
Thanks Dave. I'm not sure about the CT's specs but you can buy them online for around $50.
Question, what grid of power is the power supply that you use comes from, is it the same grid that you use to power ON the lightings that you are testing?
if using a battery and solar with this inverter, wouldn't you need a separate MPPT between the battery and the solar array?
Could you please tell me if this would work with a 600 w windmill and a 100w solar panel.?
Edit not how well or what to expect ... Just would this work
nice, I have a wind turbine hooked up to mine and I am a bit reluctant to use the limiter cos I dont know what happens to any excess power produced. I assume it goes into the dump load (no batteries) but if it doesnt could it unload the turbine? which would be very bad.
The inverter for small wind turbines usually need this dump resistor connected. Does yours have this?
Yes, although the one that came with it is 10 ohms and the one recommended by the turbine manufacturer is 4 ohms which I do not have. Any idea who to contact about the inverter as it has a blue internal light flashing about once a second I have another in which the light is steady and assume a fault of some kind but can't find the manufacturers to ask.
Contemplating of having this at home. Thank you for a very informative video.
Thank you for your feedback and kind words.
Hi Andy! big hello from italy! just an ask, what if i'll give the grid to another bigger inverter (with no limiter functions) from this with limiter (i mean to connect the AC output of the sun gtil2 to the AC input of another inverter)? the surplus energy of the main inverter go back to the gtil2 and what will happen? shoud be a trick for have limiter function to an inverter that don't have it?
Hi Ross and hello to Italy.
That is a bad idea unless the 2nd inverter is a Victron Multiplus II or Quattro which can handle AC input from another inverter.
when you aren't using much power, does it make the power meter run backwards?
I've just had solar installed and they have connected the inverter direct to the grid side of my smart meter so i have to pay for all the energy I use. I asked why and they said that if the inverter was connected to the house mains and I used more than it was producing it would cut out.
What happens if the grid goes down? Is there an anti-islanding mechanism in the device?
when grid is down the unit is down. When a limiter is enabled but will be cut/disconnect then a 0W will be output.
so what happens if the grid goes off like last time? you switch to your victron system to power your house? on which phase? system is getting heavy with too many components while they can be one. there are hybrid inverters that also has grid supply control like this one.
Yeah, this is a grid following inverter, not a grid forming inverter.... It's just an option.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia check Deye hybrid inverters
can you extend the limiter sensor clamp cable? or will it mess the reading? i need to put this inverter around 20 meter away from the inverter ...
I did it with 15 meters of shielded cable. No issue
Does anyone have a part number for the connector the limiter uses? I want to make an extension cable for mine. Sure I could cut and splice.. But I'd rather be able to shorten it again if I chose.
GX12 2 Pin
@@DerKanal thanks! Just what I needed!!
@@jbuszkie no problem
i was looking for a situation where i have off-grid a small inverter with a battery that can suck extra energy from a generator when i turn on an electric oven... is that even possible?
edit: i don't want to overhaul and upscale the whole pv/battery/inverter/cabling system because it is sufficient. we only would like to add an electric oven somehow....
very nice presentation , it made clear a lot of functions and installation details .
thank you .
Thanks.
Will this Inverter SUN-2000GTIL2-H take a 48V battery bank...I connected a 48V battery bank to + and - and blew the unit.??? Any suggestions?Can you attach 48V battery bank (100AH each)
directly to the + and - terminals of the SUN-2000GTIL2-H ?? Please advise...Thank you. I connected 48V battery bank to the + and - correctly and blew the unit???
Any suggestion. My unit is the 2000W Grid Tie Inverter Power Limiter LCD Display DC50-90V Solar Input AC185-265V Output SUN-2000GTIL2-H
Any recommendations on a wifi monitor? So I can see my system on my cellphone.
What would charge the battery if only a battery (NO PV) is connected?
You would need a separate charger. This not a hybrid inverter.
Is it legal to back feed by extension cables like you did?
hello, I have a Sun2000 grill and the fan works non-stop, what is the problem
Temperature sensor maybe. What temps does it show?
hi! how to connect batteries and charge them with this inverter?
Great video. Do you know if the neutral and ground are internally bounded in the inverter? Thank you
No, they are not bonded in this inverter. That would be fatal. The MEN link is in your meter panel or distribution panel. It is only inside an inverter if it is an off-grid inverter.
Muito Bom!!!! Tenho um inversor grid tie limiter de 1000W com 2900Wp em paineis qual o valor maximo de potencia eu posso ligar neste equipamento
Could you integrate a 48v battery and solar panels using this inverter w/o other equipment? I'm struggling to see how this could be done, unless I'm missing something. Say I had a 75V solar panel. It almost looks like the system would require an additional charge controller to have the PV charge the batteries and make it all work? Basically the 75v solar panel feeding a charge controller, feeding the 48V battery, feeding this inverter, then tied to the panel/load... or could it all be handled by this inverter? Is there a cheaper way to do it?
Yes you need a SCC if you want to add batteries.
Great informative video,thank you.
I don’t get the constant nitpicking by the know all keyboard warriors?
You are here to inform so the so called adults can make a judgement for THEMSELVES as to whether they should buy the product or not.
It really is that simple guys.
Fyi i have just installed a 3.2kw solar array with 2 SOK server rack batteries and i have just bought a 1.4kw micro inverter to feed directly into my ring main grid.
After watching this video i realise should of bought one these grid tie inverters instead 🤦🏻♂️ they seem more user friendly.
But hey we’re all still learning about this stuff.
Thanks again
Sorry, hit enter too soon. Somewhere along the way watching your videos, I misplaced the link to the resistors you used to precharge the capacitors so there is not a larger spark. Possible to post that link or send me to the right place.
any update? is this still running? any tips...pros and cons. I want to get this inverter, but i see no long term videos
This is the best explanation of how these work on RUclips. Thank You. I have a question: If using batteries (I assume for after sunset) with only a maximum of 1000 Watts of daytime solar, would the inverter be able to recharge the batteries if they ran all night supplying 1000 Watts to the house and still be able to provide power to the house during the day or would it need to be dedicated to just recharging batteries. I am a little confused on that part.
This inverter does not have a charger. It's not a hybrid inverter. It's grid tied with power support. So it will deliver the energy used by your load as long as possible until the set low voltage cut-off is reached. The grid will then deliver the energy again until the voltage in your battery rises and the SUN takes over again.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I am doing a bad job explaining so thank you for continuing to answer my dumb questions. If I want to take advantage of my large battery bank (AGM) at night, do I connect my panels to an appropriate charge controller that is then connected to my battery bank that is continuously connected my inverter? I would set the inverter to cut off at 37.30 or so VDC to be conservative to my batteries and then the inverter would restart in the morning when solar made voltage climb to set level?? I think you see how I want to use the inverter. Am I doing it correctly if as described above?
@@benkanobe7500 no dumb questions here at all. How you describe it here, that's exactly as it should be, The inverter should turn off at a set voltage to prevent the battery from being discharged further while the BMS does not trigger in this case and still acts like a safety switch to protect the battery if something goes wrong. Perfect setup.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I'm a bit confused. As this has a MPPT solar controller, if you have a battery bank that you want to use with this, you would not be able to use the MPPT solar controller from this inverter?? Would the set up be - Solar Panels to Solar Controller to Battery Bank then from Battery bank back to Inverter ?
Some reviews on Amazon about this backfeeding even with the limiters in place. Most utilities now days that have a smart meter will be alerted to this backfeeding. One review he says it was back feeding during a power outage a utility worker noticed power still on the grid after they cut the power going to the feed lines. Here in the US when you grid tie you required to have insurance in case of injury from back feeding to the grid while they are repairing it. Not sure how often that happens. I would imagine it is very rare.
i have a pair of 1000w sun inverters with LIMITERS and now have a 48v battery, noticing that switching on n off high load, the inverter shows NEGATIVE watts for brief period......any thoughts or have you observed this phenomena? i live in california
Yes, that is normal, it overshoots for a sec when load is gone as it needs time to ramp down. Same when connecting loads, it always is a bit behind.
is this the new version of grid tie inverters that can accept battery inputs as well?
How is the unit workout ? Any problem? I am thinking about buying many units.
The way I understand this, with this inverter one would need on for each circuit in your house. Most houses in the USA have 5 or 6 circuits. Is this correct?
nope
It can feed other circuits also iirc
For this inverter, if how many watts maximum panels I can use? If I will use 1200watts panels, but keep the corect voltage it will ok? Or I must add maximum 1000watts panels? Thank you very much
whatever how many Watt array you have, until have proper V range then it can give to inwerter a power who can be go to auto-consumption.
Good day, Andy. It’s now 10pm here in upstate New York. This is an off subject question. I noticed your location has the sun in a low arch across your northern sky. Your panels don’t get much sun because of the tree growth. Have a ever thought of cutting the tops out so you would be blessed with more direct sun. I really enjoy all of your posts, and I hope you continue with such informative , ( I call them tutorial’s). Thank you so much. Be blessed.
To save Andy replying he has already answered this suggestion in previous videos. The trees are not for cutting.
Thanks Nigel 🌳🌳🌳
Does it has RS485 connection? Any description on the remote interface connection?
Inverter efficiency 82%?
91% no Rs485 or other connections
SOME do have RS485. I've just ordered a pair (should be here in a few days?) that support it. Where my main panel is vs the inverters/batteries/etc is about 100ft gap, so went that route since RS485 can be run ~1000ft.
Thanks for the overview.
There is similar model for 3-phase wind power generators. Do you think it can be used with solar instead (at the end of the day the 3-phase AC input is converted to DC inside the box).
I don't think it is convert to DC actually, these are grid tie inverters which don't charge a battery.
The inverter for wind power cannot be used for solar, no.
Hi I have got the same inverters but they came with ac output L1 N L2 anybody knows how to wire the outputs to an single phase 230vac or have in for the manual isn't any help
I am from Iraq I bought one from Amazon, mine does not working what ever I tried it does not work. Is their any way to or guild line to connecting in right way.
Do you need net metering or a bidirectional meter for this to work or do you just plug it in... interesting device.. is there a legal. Limit.. im assuming it won't output unless there is a load for it...
exactly, zero export / full auto-consumption only with limiter, new version have external limiter or use soyosource who use modbus and you can use IoT to this.
@YTBySIB I would guess that the load needs to be 2x the max Output in order to use the max output. Basically, u have 2 parallel power sources feeding sub panel. Path of least resistance. So if u limit to say 400w u would need 800w of load. 400 from the device and 400 from grid.
Excellent video and TNX also, I use the same in my grid tie setup with limiter since I have to pay if sending power into the grid, I produce a sine wave with a small generator in case power goes out and the gtil will kick in again and produce sun energy for my use as necessary.
hi Andy, because of you i am building a 28kw 48v battery and i want to be able to sell back my power in the summer, and this inverter makes a lot off sense to make this happen. BUT will this inverter stop sending power in the grid when the grid go down? so like workers cut the cable. because no power can flow when the grid is down to protect the workers and the grid. do you know if this inverter does this?
thanks