[RE-wrenches] SMA phantom arc faults

[frenergy]

I've only had the "tapping" method work on SB-22 inverters, not on -40 
inverters.  You gotta log on to the machine which I think you can only 
do onsite.  Has anyone ever done a reset of the 8206 from the portal?

Bill

Feather River Solar Electric
Bill Battagin, Owner
4291 Nelson St.
Taylorsville, CA 95983
530.284.7849
CA Lic 874049
www.frenergy.net

On 9/15/2019 12:36 PM, Jeff Clearwater wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> How do you clear an 8206 from a SB7.7-US?  the manual says tap on the 
> cover within 10 seconds of error message.  That's not working.
>
> Does that tap then set it up for the next restart or is it supposed to 
> clear it right away - I've tried restarting again to no avail.
>
> When I tap right after the message appears it simply toggles to the 
> next screen.
>
> Jeff Clearwater
> Village Power Design
>
> Mac Lewis wrote on 9/6/19 7:14 AM:
>
>> Hello Wrenches,
>>
>> You may be aware of this but the -92R firmware supposedly has 
>> addressed the arc fault issue for the US-40 inverters. See here for 
>> the download: 
>> https://www.sma-america.com/service-support/downloads.html  It fixed 
>> an arc fault issue for me yesterday at least.  Bring a thumb drive, 
>> the update process took about an hour to perform.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:40 AM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar 
>> <offgridsolar at sti.net <mailto:offgridsolar at sti.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Same up here in the southern sierra. I get calls from ABB and a
>>     few from SMA to look at systems that people far away installed
>>     and as a local 3rd party it can save some money. Whatever they
>>     quote me I triple the price. 1/3 up front and the rest when it is
>>     done. ABB is really slow with payment. I think they sold their
>>     inverter business? Sunpower is a great panel but they have had
>>     some bad runs. Probably why there are so many new/used panels on
>>     the secondary market. They are great for Offgrid ground arrays
>>     and no AFD.
>>
>>     On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:52:19 -0400, Dave Tedeyan
>>     <dtedeyan at taitem.com <mailto:dtedeyan at taitem.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Chris,
>>>     Sunpower has taken some responsibility on some of our older
>>>     Sunpower systems that are arc faulting. We tell them that a
>>>     system is arc faulting, and then they insist on sending up a 3rd
>>>     party contractor to inspect the system and potentially install
>>>     what they call "Tigo Diodes". I am still not exactly sure what
>>>     that is. It also seems to take them months to send anyone to
>>>     upstate NY, as we have a bunch of customers that have been
>>>     waiting months for the 3rd party contractor to come take a look.
>>>     You likely could only follow this route though if the system was
>>>     installed by a Sunpower dealer and you are a Sunpower dealer
>>>     yourself. If the original system was from a Sunpower dealer, you
>>>     can also have the customer call Sunpower directly.
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Dave
>>>     *Dave Tedeyan, PE*
>>>     Senior Engineer | Taitem Engineering, PC
>>>
>>>     110 South Albany Street | Ithaca, NY 14850
>>>     o. 607.277.1118 x121  f. 607.277.2119
>>>     www.taitem.com <http://www.taitem.com>
>>>
Feather River Solar Electric
Bill Battagin, Owner
4291 Nelson St.
Taylorsville, CA 95983
530.284.7849
CA Lic 874049
www.frenergy.net



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