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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    You're probably better off with a 48 volt inverter. Alternatively there are several inverters designed to run off of the voltage that your pack is already set up for. Between 6,000 and 10,000 Watts for around a thousand dollars. Between 200 and 400 volts. Just look on Alibaba. As far as the...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    yes I'm the prius guy. How did you know? It must be my accent... in this case my 230 volt battery is my Prius but it was on which could have been disturbing and causing the arc fault. I recently ran my electric clothes dryer many times a day for several weeks in a row during a cloudy month and...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    question 1 about disabling the arc fault protection. No I have not discovered how to disable it. Maybe it's possible to do like you said and maybe it wouldn't throw a different error when the board got messed with. Question 2 about running off the battery. It is possible to run off the...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    I've seen a few people in your situation but they haven't been able to accomplish what you're trying with the H6. I bet in Tesla's original idea with this inverter it would be possible.
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    If the battery voltage was low enough a cheap homemade capacitive battery charger could be utilized. Capacitive Battery Charger
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    Thanks for the info. I did try series resistance between my battery and the H6. But the electronics on the Prius we're on and that was injecting the frequency probably what was causing the arc fault interruption. The resistance I used was several water heater elements in parallel trying to get...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    When using with a homemade lithium battery completely off grid Without hardware modification this inverter will not work at night.
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    I did feed 350 kilowatt-hours to the grid during testing. it worked quite well except whenever I connected the batteries it would send all the battery power to the grid as well. It seemed very eager to send the power to the grid with no user control on how much you sent at what time. As long...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    Yes. I know my wiring is a mess right now. There's remanence of two past systems still there on the wall. I'm confident enough now to remove all of the old components so I'll be cleaning it up soon.
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    I got the inverter working off grid. I've been using it now for over a month to power my house. And prior to that I had it working 2 months on a test bench. It required lots of research and actual hardware modifications but now that I've got it figured out for the price this is the most...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    Well it's not really working that well with the H6 butt the Prius works great with the midnight classic charge controller on my 48 volt system. And when I say great I mean as long as I'm not using more than the charge controller can produce there's no problem. I set up a custom wind chart for...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    You could try one combo at a time it may take 90 hours or pm me on Facebook messenger Travis.Sanders.35
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    I tried putting a bunch of water heater elements in parallel and running the power positive wire from the Prius battery through the elements and then on its way to the inverters solar panel input. Doing it like this I can make it work a little more stable but I'm still having the arc fault...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    Today I hooked a 230 volt battery to the inverter where the solar panel is supposed to be connected. It seemed to work okay for small loads like 600w but when I turned on the 1.4kw Shop-Vac that has a startup surge of kw6 the inverter shut down with an error and said arc fault. Then I tried...
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    Will SolarCity H6 work in a rogue off-grid setup?

    My fuses were bad. that's why it wouldn't pull power out of my batteries any longer. I accidentally connected them without using the pre-charge resistor once the other day. now I'm back to exporting battery power to the power company but not able to charge the batteries using the solar yet.