anyone have solar panels and can monitor whats is generated used and exported?

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You use more electricity than my daughter mind I did have a heater on part of the time today otherwise consumption would have been 2kWh lower. The system is 3.75kW but the weather looks crap.
 
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i do have a dual core xeon on 247 mind but any big generation and export gets kicked to the floor
 

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says sunny tomoz so lets see what i can pump out export wise, not alot and no one has control over this thing no one has the password and the company that installed it went bust long time ago.
 
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sent the pics of yours and mine just now to the council housing officer fingers crossed i get a new inverter or free cremation :p
 

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do you have a grid tie? and what sort of cash do you generate per year co the guy over the road bought his house and setup and not had a penny from the new company, i can now see why lol.
 

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with edf so 61p ss and 28. something per kw went up and down 1st oct fkn ss is a scam as you pay it even if you use nothing. or rip the main fuse out the floor :p
also pay at post office and no dd yet and last bill was £110 i think and 1 b4 was like 87 last month.
 

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i even monitor the power my network switch uses 70.kwh last 30 days, this thing work over poe as adaptor pita
 

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non serviceable parts my iron not got the power to fix inverter ill have a go tho :cool:
 

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do you have a grid tie? and what sort of cash do you generate per year co the guy over the road bought his house and setup and not had a penny from the new company, i can now see why lol.
Yes it is grid tied otherwise I couldn't export. I receive about £2.5k per annum from FIT payments, that is for everything I generate regardless of how much is exported. The guy over the road should talk to his solicitor as all of this should have been sorted as part of the purchase.
 
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well new inverter 25th this month got um buy the balls now massive 100w export atm fkn twats lol :rolleyes:
 

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That pic still makes no sense to me, if you are generating 1.75 kW and still importing 200W where is it all going? Your generation looks right for the weather today but the import makes no sense. If you had a 2kW load constantly the import graph would be the inverse of the generation so it's not that. If you are generating and not using it must be exporting.
I'm not sure if the software is set correctly, it looks to me as though you have a type 2 installation set up as a type 1. I must say at this point my system is a type 1 with a Henley block separating generation and consumption and only has 2 CTs. Your system has 3 CTs. I would be checking that they are all working properly and are all connected correctly at the Y piece.
You can test the individual CTs by connecting them one at a time to input 2 at a time when you aren't generating and maybe switch the kettle or some other constant load on and see if generation shows as whatever the rating of the kettle or other load you are using to test (plus your background load).
 
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the inverter is going grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr with that load on it :oops:

it is all connected as it should be as did mess about with them as could not work out why it is not exporting like the one you have.

it is getting replaced now so dont have to worry about the bloody thing burning my house down and i only sent those pics last night so i must have hit a nerve :p

apart from the export it is all fine electric usage wise but it is clear as day this inverter has had it and as they can not provide 1 service report for it since it was installed god knows how long ago as they dont even know that.

them dozy twats at council. did not even know some bulbs are now banned like the t8 in our kitchen.

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there coming to fit the new light same day as inverter and contractor came out today and getting a hole new bathroom i must have cost them 10k today ;)

if they leave the inverter ill try and get new caps and fix it and put it in my shed :eek:
 

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it is installed like this
 

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You don't say how much it's been used. I had an AIMS 12,000w inverter that started operating erratically at 25,000hrs (5 yrs). Opened it up and couldn't see anything wrong but sent the control board for repair... where they replaced all the caps and measured some stuff and it fixed it! - https://diysolarforum.com/threads/success-story-aims-12-000w-control-board-repair.62171/

The AIMS Inverter control board repair cost ~$500 which was OK for an AIMS 12,000w inverter based on it's price but maybe not so much for a charge controller.

If you have patience open it up and look around for something popped or burnt. If nothing obvious then the next level is to try to replace capacitors as I understand they wear over several years if that makes sense in you're situation. But one needs patience to try self repair and like @Supervstech I'm more inclined to buy something else and hope for longer service.

i need a 1000w soldering iron i dont think the phone repair shop can handle it :D

 
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While you might have a noisy inverter that won't make any difference to your graphs. If it is producing more than you are using then it has to export. If your electricity meter is stopped then it is exporting. Check the CTs they aren't reading right.
There isn't anything to service on an inverter though if it is 10 years or more old the electrolytics might be finished.
 
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it is 10 years old plus, no one knows how old they are they have been there that long and am amazed it has lasted this long.

when the guy from lcx came out i asked him if that was normal for these inverters and said no and even said it is not right and said would ask his supervisor for a new inverter, i hope he gets sacked.

i dont really care about the export fee as i dont get it anyway but im not having a ticking time bomb above my head that could burn my house down.

like you said it should be exporting and it is clear as day it is not and the meter on the wall for the inverter is not moving much at all so it is def not exporting wtf it is going idk.

if i recap it i should be able to fix it same as a amp or power supply ect even my net work switch has a service life like 8 years.

tho it depends how much the caps are and if they will leave it with me to have ago as better than land fill and can stick it in me shed and get some more panels.

if it aint got no power it wont be able to store the password i just need to remove the back up batt and im in ;)
 

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