Solar PV Hints, Tips & Troubleshooting

No problem for me so far. Have been through a good few orange storms and one red. Steady as you like.

Do you mind telling us what your mounting system is like? I recall someone earlier showing a pic of the ground mount that was essentially made from re-used telegraph poles. That's some stable set-up.

I have 1/2 acre beside and behind the our house. A clear view of the south-east & east sky. A 20' shipping container converted into an insulated shed which is about 20mts from the back of the house. But the house is on elevated land so we get a lot of wind.

I'll more than than likely be going for a 30kw or 40kw second hand leaf in about 2 years when I change the diesel so I'm considering a sizable diy PV install in the field and have the diy battery etc all connected into the container and then a feed into the house mainboard.

This and other boards threads have been fantastic for detailed information.

Who knows maybe during the 30 seconds it didn't record voltage it spiked above it for a split second and it was enough to trigger the alarm/protection.

Found anything on that error in any Solis documentation?

Had the SEAI inspection carried out on Tuesday and confirmation that it has passed -

'SEAI is pleased to inform you that the solar PV system installed has successfully passed inspection on the basis that they substantially meet the requirements of the Solar PV Scheme'

For those worried about going over the planning limit SEAI are not too worried anyway 😁

Straight forward process and completed in about 15-20mins.

Separately, I'm using the Solis cloud app (installer said to download). Is there a better one or am I restricted to this one?

To be fair my SEAI BER inspection was fine. Mostly it's done by an independent contractor and not SEAI employee themselves. The lad in question seemed oblivious that the grant requirements for solar had changed (in Feb!), but maybe that's a line he was telling me rather than wanting to "stir the pot". The one that got me was that even if I had an airtight balloon inserted into the chimney, it wouldn't actually make a difference to the BER rating until the chimney was sealed off (with cement). Eh?? What?

I sort of get the distances that they want from the edges, or at least I can get in behind that there might potentially be some airflow issue where panels would come under more duress close to the edge of a roof due to turbulent air passing over/around the edges and that may increase the likelihood that a panel would lift from the roof and behind a hazard. That said, it's a stretch to me.

Then you couple that to the "if Pv2 was disconnected then it's not my problem" you are left wondering.......why bother lads? The idea of a BER is sound and honestly, I'd say they have saved tons of carbon emissions over the years, but they should have a nod to common sense too.

Need to learn more about all this!

Assuming your inverters Input DC Voltage max is 600v, it was 100% correct to throw an alarm because your data clearly shows you hitting 600v.

Be aware that Solis too see this data from their cloud, and so if the inverter blows because of this, they will point at this as a contributing factor.

So data helps them too to defend warranty claims !!!

Looks like grid Voltage was under 300, pretty consistent. Would have been mostly exporting as batteries were full

Cold day with wind (like today), panels are at low temperature , with rainclouds clouds around and a strong sun between the cloud would lead to string max DC Voltage being reached and passed Voc , If you had 12+ panels. Panels cant heat up enough to drop the voltage so voltage spike will happen.

Wouldn't lose sleep over it, if they pay 5c per kwh then standing charge will go up by €100 easily, like with any BS grants given by the gvmnt.