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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...

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...

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...

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.

If the battery voltage was low enough a cheap homemade capacitive battery charger could be utilized. Capacitive Battery Charger

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...

When using with a homemade lithium battery completely off grid Without hardware modification this inverter will not work at night.

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...

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.

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...

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...

You could try one combo at a time it may take 90 hours or pm me on Facebook messenger Travis.Sanders.35

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...

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...

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.

I haven't tried hooking my batteries directly to the PV input yet but if I can't get it working any other way I will definitely be trying that. In theory it would work great because it seems like if it wasn't trying to feed the grid it wouldn't be able to do any mppt sweeps in that...

when you go to try it make sure you start in the morning and you're actually able to do a lot of testing upon first Bootup because I think there's a 24 hour timer that will allow you to use it off grid. I think if it doesn't have SolarCity communication every 24 hours it won't go off grid.

I hooked up my H6 yesterday. I did a few tests and it seemed to be pulling power out of my batteries completely off-grid & had excellent surge capacity. I disconnected the batteries and it was able to start up a Shop-Vac that in rushed twice as much as the inverters surge rating. Even with low...

The specs on the powerwall 2 say it's a 48 volt battery which is strange that they would choose that voltage considering it's all in one unit so it would be even safer to use higher voltage compared to a DC high-voltage powerwall disattached from its matching inverter like they have done in the...

I know there were some powerwall ones that use higher voltage I don't know if they were all that way. I also know that the powerwall 2 originally came in two variants. One had a built-in inverter which is the one they're selling now and the other was just a battery they called it's the DC...

I'm completely off-grid on the big island as well. I was reading on the Tesla powerwall 2 specs sheet that it's a 50 volt internal battery? Everyone in this thread seems to think it's a high-voltage DC battery like the powerwall 1. I saw these $700 high voltage SolarCity inverters made by...

I talked to Tesla and several solar installers. So far there is good hope that this inverter will work off-grid but I have not found anyone that was familiar enough to say so for sure.

I've gone rogue off grid. 7 kilowatts of panels and way too much lithium batteries. I noticed some Tesla related inverters like the SolarCity h6 hybrid inverter that are enticingly cheap like $700. I like the high-voltage aspect and could arrange my batteries to be the correct voltage and I'm...