[RE-wrenches] Radian Question

david quattro david at quattrosolar.com
Mon Oct 30 10:14:46 PDT 2023


I’m not familiar with Outback defaults but most inverters I’ve dealt with
have a grid tolerance of 10% +/-  so 216 to 264VAC.



On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 6:57 AM Drake Chamberlin via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Hi Jay,
>
> The inverter won't even connect to the grid. It stays in the state where
> it is sampling the grid, AC in light blinking.
>
> Is the default high voltage for the nominal 240 V 280? (IE 140 V X 2).
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Drake
>
>
> *Drake Chamberlin*
>
> *Athens Electric LLC*
>
> *Ohio Electrical Contractor’s License 44810*
>
> *NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional*
> ---
>
>
>
> On 2023-10-29 15:45, Jay via RE-wrenches wrote:
>
>
> Hi drake
>
> The early mate 3 has a glitch which I think they changed in the 3s.
>
> You e got to set the rebulk volts above what you want it to charge at.
>
> IE if the battery volts don't get below the rebulk volts it won't charge.
>
> So if your shallow cycling the batteries it's common it won't get below
> the rebulk volts. If you're deep cycling it usually will with default
> settings
>
> The default high voltage window for ac input is default at 140v.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jay
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Drake Chamberlin via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
> My Radian GS 8048 intermittently will connect to the grid to charge
> batteries. The grid voltage seems to run high around here. Yesterday, it
> wouldn't connect. The grid voltage was at 251 V. Later it did connect. At
> that point the grid was at 246 V.
>
> I am suspecting that the Radian has a voltage acceptance limit of 250 V.
> Is that true? Is it possible to open up the window?
>
> If that isn't it, what could be the problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Drake
>
>
> *Drake Chamberlin*
>
> *Athens Electric LLC*
>
> *Ohio Electrical Contractor's License 44810*
>
> *NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional*
>
>
>
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