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<p class="MsoNormal">Dave,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Guessing its a synchronization problem between the two inverters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Depending on the placement of the grid tie breakers, the two inverters are presenting themselves as either in parallel (2 x 120v sources on the same leg) or series (120 / 240 on two 120V legs).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The attached manual excerpt and tech note talk about both. Seems that you need a synch cable in either case, recently did a rebuild on an SW 5048 (pm for internals rebuilder info) and needed cable to get both inverters to work properly.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have at least one grid-tie / backup system that has been running for years with dual SW / GTIs time for battery replacement, rest of system still going</p>
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<b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 20, 2019 1:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:offgridsolar@sti.net">offgridsolar@sti.net</a>; <a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [RE-wrenches] Xantrex SW 4048 grid tie mystery</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry, misspeak on my part. It is DC negatives and grounds that are tied together. No neutrals in the DC box.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:57 PM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar <<a href="mailto:offgridsolar@sti.net">offgridsolar@sti.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Why would neutral be in the DC conduit box? This just wrong but I doubt this is the problem.</p>
<p>Since this never worked properly or has not in 13 years, I would suggest replacement with modern equipment. SW from xantrex has been out of support for around 15 years and always was a headache grid tied, in my opinion.</p>
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<p>On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:44:42 -0500, Dave Tedeyan <<a href="mailto:dtedeyan@taitem.com" target="_blank">dtedeyan@taitem.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After getting some new batteries in there, I can at least fire it up. It is a grid tie with battery backup situation with two Xantrex SW4048 inverters. Each inverter is kind of like its own system with two Outback MX60 CC's per inverter,
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<p class="MsoNormal">What seems to be happening is that after turning on the inverters the AC1 in good light will flash for about 30 seconds, then it syncs up to the grid and the light stays on solid. But then after a little bit, that light will start flashing,
indicating that the utility power has been dropped, when it has not actually been dropped. Then at some point the backed up loads would lose power. The customer says that every 1-10 minutes, they would lose the backed up loads for 10-90 seconds. This happened
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. I see in the manual there is information about stacking the inverters, but I am guessing in this setup this not necessary or would even be counter productive to stack the inverters. Not sure if the inverters not being stacked could cause
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Neutrals and grounds are bonded in their main panel, but also in each of the Xantrex DC breaker boxes. I was going to separate them in the DC breaker boxes, but found that there is no way to isolate the battery negative bus from the
box itself, and figured it would be dodgy to unground the enclosure. So I am also not sure if the multiple N-G bonds could be causing these issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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