[RE-wrenches] Remote Alert and Bootstrapping on Sunny Island AC Coupled System

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This is totally normal w/ the displays. There IS an emergency charge setting…. You put AC into the AC out essentially AC coupling w/ the genset.  Page 222 section 20.10. This works only w/ FLA batteries.
What was the issue w/ the generator battery? I install a small AC charger for the generator battery. There are “ auto start functions” 234.07 Auto gen start is also 235.01
Is there internet/ cell at the site? 
> On Dec 17, 2020, at 1:51 PM, William Miller <william at millersolar.com> wrote:
> 
> Friends:
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> I have a client living off-grid with a Sunny Island system AC coupled to Sunny Boy inverters.  They returned from being away to find the system entirely shutdown due to cloudy weather, a dead generator cranking battery and a water leak which ran two booster pumps continuously over a period of time.  The displays on the Sunny Islands were blank and therefore the inverters would not start.  
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> We put a new cranking battery into the generator and got it started, but with no life in the Sunny Islands, neither the generator nor the Sunny Boys had any possibility of reviving the discharged 6,000 amp-hour lead acid battery array.  Fortunately after disconnecting the batteries for ten minutes, the voltage rebounded just enough to start the Sunny Islands which allowed the generator to connect and we were back in operation.
>  
> I am not sure why the displays went dead on the Sunny Islands.  I am on my way back out to download and examine the SD card logs.  I have developed an Excel tool to help me tabulate the data.  Maybe there is some clue in those files. 
>  
> In the meantime I have these questions that those of you with more Sunny Island experience might be able to answer:
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> 1.   Is it normal for the display screens on the Sunny Islands to go blank after shutting off due to low battery voltage?
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> 2.   Is there an up-to-date option for remote monitoring that will send an email if certain error conditions occur?
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> 3.   What would you do with a 6k AH battery bank with a voltage too low to start a battery inverter or solar charge controller?
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> Thanks in advance.  The wrenches hive-mind is a huge asset.
>  
> William Miller
> Miller Solar
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