Basic Set up Guide
Setting up a Lithium Battery
1.1 If a Lithium battery ( all Sunsynk) then make sure Lithium is selected .
1.2 Calculate the battery capacity per battery ( all Sunsynk 5kW would be 100AH ) and multiply per number of batteries and input this amount in the Batt Capacity tab.
1.3 As a rule of thumb, a single 5 kW battery would have a charge discharge of/ 50 A and 2 or more would be 40 A per battery, 2=80 , 3=120 . but please remember each inverters limits shown’ here
1.4 Connect the battery data cable from inverter Can port to the master battery CAN or PCS port , if you have any slave batteries you will need to go from the master OUT port to IN port on the 1st slave and OUT port on 1st slave to IN port of 2nd slave etc . Please be advised that when more than two batteries or more than one inverter are in use, it is strongly recommended that a bus bar be used.
Further information on this topic can be found here.
1.5 Protocol will be 0 unless the CAN port cannot be used and you need to use the 485 RJ port, in this case the protocol number will be in the battery compatibility list.
Setting up Battery Charge
2.1 Enable Grid Charge as this will give you the option to select when to charge the batteries.
2.2 Enable Grid Signal as this will enable the system to accept the grid charge .
Battery Discharge Settings
3.1 Battery SOC should be no lower than 20% (recommended) to protect the longevity of the battery,
3.2 Low Batt should be 5% above Shutdown (recommended) or can match that value of shutdown, .
3.3 Restart should be 10 % above Low Batt .
Program Charge & Discharge Times
4.1 As a default the SOC % will be set to 80%, so for the batteries to discharge we advise setting all SOC to the Low Battery value in battery shutdown page (20%).
4.2 Make sure the User timer is ticked as if not ticked will result in the batteries being charged from the grid constantly, unless grid drops and then will discharge to shutdown value .
4.3 Here is a link to the system mode settings guide. .
Setting the inverter to cover the GRID & LOAD port
5.1 As a default Zero export and Limit to Load only will be ticked , if connected to the grid port you will need to untick limit to load only, if connected to UPS then leave as limit to load only.
5.2 If you have permissions from the DNO to export excess PV energy back to the grid, then you
can tick Solar Export this will send all excess energy after the load and battery has been covered .
WITH THIS BASIC GUIDE THE INVERTER SHOULD START PRODUCING READINGS ON THE LOAD, PV, GRID AND BATTERIES IN THE POWER FLOW SCREEN ON THE INVERTER, IF IT DOES NOT CALL INTO TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHER ASSISTANCE.
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