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3 minutes ago, The Blind Wolf said:well flipping is only going to keep the words sideways not up and down ways.. the gs will be hung horizontial .
You mean rotate the LCD 90 degrees. Battery lines on the bottom, AC on the top (or maybe vice-versa)
Unfortunately....no, we don't have the ability to rotate the LCD like that. Not without a machine shop to cut the lid differently.
12kw inverter is designed that way (though both battery and AC connections are on the bottom), LCD designed for wall-mounting. But it's not ready for sale yet...
3 minutes ago, Sid Genetry Solar said:You mean rotate the LCD 90 degrees. Battery lines on the bottom, AC on the top (or maybe vice-versa)
Unfortunately....no, we don't have the ability to rotate the LCD like that. Not without a machine shop to cut the lid differently.
12kw inverter is designed that way (though both battery and AC connections are on the bottom), LCD designed for wall-mounting. But it's not ready for sale yet...
ah, so you saying that the lcd shows sideways? I figured it showed like on the pj the bottem would be the ac and the top was the power, but, from what I'm now understanding it didn't show that way? so you had to read the screen with the inverter going side to side from ac on left and power on right? Okay, well never mind that will work then. I thought the pj had to be hung to be able to read the screen correctly 😛 no wonder everybody said it was hard to read. . .
1 minute ago, The Blind Wolf said:ah, so you saying that the lcd shows sideways? I figured it showed like on the pj the bottem would be the ac and the top was the power, but, from what I'm now understanding it didn't show that way? so you had to read the screen with the inverter going side to side from ac on left and power on right? Okay, well never mind that will work then. I thought the pj had to be hung to be able to read the screen correctly 😛 no wonder everybody said it was hard to read. . .
Not sure what you can make out on a little 3.5" 128x64 pixel LCD, but if the PJ screen is hard to read...most of the text on the GS inverter is 1/2 the size. PJ got 4 lines of text out of the screen; the GS inverter gets 8 lines.
Need to get that WiFi server / setup function added. But there's so much on my plate to do--and you need your inverters.
I think we just need to go with split-phase sync on 2 single-phase inverters--I can guarantee that will work well, and you'll be able to get the full 12kw load. I don't want you to be having problems with your system.
1 minute ago, Sid Genetry Solar said:Not sure what you can make out on a little 3.5" 128x64 pixel LCD, but if the PJ screen is hard to read...most of the text on the GS inverter is 1/2 the size. PJ got 4 lines of text out of the screen; the GS inverter gets 8 lines.
Need to get that WiFi server / setup function added. But there's so much on my plate to do--and you need your inverters.
I think we just need to go with split-phase sync on 2 single-phase inverters--I can guarantee that will work well, and you'll be able to get the full 12kw load. I don't want you to be having problems with your system.
What, still no go on the last update?
so, two black wire to the master for l1 two red wire for l2 to slave. one white wire to the master or both?
Well, darn. I guess we go that route, though if I get it and need more power, well. . . just have sean run two l1 and l2 I'll do as I saied about, two black and two red 10 wire cuase I'm not going to fork out another $100 bucks on breakers and wire. its already wired and ready to go. all I got to do is mount the inverters run the batts to them, and fire it up, just well was only going to fire up one gs inverter to begin with, but with it being split guess I'll have to fire both up, then flip the breakers on so it don't do a one leg dance.
Guess when I get a 12k gs I'll use it as my EV charger with a 48v bank. . .
On 5/12/2021 at 3:18 PM, InPhase said:You can run it on 120 volts and it will use 1/4 the power as it will at 240 volts. But ultimately you won't save anything because it takes the same amount of energy to heat a gallon of water to a given temperature at 500 watts or 10 million watts. What changes is the time that it takes.
At 120v it's half the power. I changed out the upper element in my tank to 120v 2000 watt & a 240v 3500 watter in the bottom which at 120v will use 1750 watts but you are correct, lowering the element wattage just delays the time it takes to heat the water. A 500 watt element doesn't exist 'cuz it would take forever to heat up a tank. A 1500watt 120v is the smallest I've ever seen.
At 120v it's half the power. I changed out the upper element in my tank to 120v 2000 watt & a 240v 3500 watter in the bottom which at 120v will use 1750 watts but you are correct, lowering the element wattage just delays the time it takes to heat the water. A 500 watt element doesn't exist 'cuz it would take forever to heat up a tank. A 1500watt 120v is the smallest I've ever seen.
Half the volts means half the amps, which makes it 1/4 power. Use Ohm's Law.
Just a reminder Sid about the custom mods on the inverter you're sending. I expect you're real busy getting all the orders out & could misplace the the order specs of it being wired for 120 only & the remote switch jack & @48v input. Thx!
Just a reminder Sid about the custom mods on the inverter you're sending. I expect you're real busy getting all the orders out & could misplace the the order specs of it being wired for 120 only & the remote switch jack & @48v input. Thx!
Actually it's just Sean on all the orders; I'm handling design, programming, sourcing, etc. More than enough to keep me busy. I know Sean is busy trying to get the single-inverter orders out; I will buzz him to make sure.
Hmmm. wow, this is one of those weeks that well nothin big happen. just posting of PJ cheap stuff on you tube and well the unplug of the wifi board. Other then that. its all hush, hush. . . Maybe sid is makeing a new product for a big reviel?
I'm workin' on the Rev. C control board design and all the associated things. We definitely aren't bored on this side of Genetry Solar.
On 5/12/2021 at 2:03 PM, Sid Genetry Solar said:I think we just need to go with split-phase sync on 2 single-phase inverters--I can guarantee that will work well, and you'll be able to get the full 12kw load. I don't want you to be having problems with your system.
Just ordered another 6k because we're going to retire that big, ol pig central AC on the roof. (It's amazing how much your load can be reduced by getting rid of old ****. Dryer, refig, washer...now ac...this new stuff doesn't really have a very long payback period...)
Now some questions: does this mean you're giving up, or just delaying daisy chain? What's the procedure for converting the split phase to single phase on the inverter (assuming it's a configuration setting and assuming it's already a feature)?