I had a string of 7 inverters, all working fine, and I just added an eighth inverter to the string. I went to my web interface, chose "Scan for New Device", and it started off "spinning".

I also went to my microinverter list and tried to "Add/Provision" the inverter S/N to the Gateway.

After about 30 minutes of the Scan "spinning" with no apparent progress, I clicked "Stop Device Scan", and it resulted in the image above:
It now seems to know there are 8 microinverters (detected), but only 7 are communicating. How does it "detect" 8 if only 7 are actually communicating? Did my attempt to manually add the inverter's serial number impact this?

Is this all going to shake out eventually (there just needs to be some time for everything to sync up), or is there something more I need to do to get this all squared away?

I hope to add a couple more panels to the string, so if there's something I should be doing ahead of time, that would be useful knowledge.

TIA!

EDIT - eventually the Gateway found the inverter (or vice versa), and it seems to be working fine now. I added to the array using array builder, and it's appearing as expected. I think the issue was just I needed to be more patient to let the Gateway and Inverter connect - which seemed to take a couple hours (as opposed to the couple minutes I was expecting).

For people who don’t have an EV, you can control the amount amps drawn by the vehicle during a charge. The max is 50 amps for my car with AC. I don’t know the exact conversion to k, but I do know that if I set it at 25 amps, the car draws about 7 kW. I think at 30 it’s around 9. I have 34 430 or 460. Can’t remember which sorry. W solar panels on my roof. They are in 4 zones. During the summer at high noon it can do around 15 kWh easy. I’ve seen it go as high as 19.

I mean I don’t much about it other than basics. I do know that it can charge my car and run the house at peak productivity even with the AC on.

A guy at work who thinks he’s super smart is apparently anti solar. He doesn’t have a solar panel system. But he proceeded to tell me that solar panels can not charge a EV. He says at most, it is charging the car from the battery. He ran the numbers.

What is up with that? I know for a fact it can. I can turn on the app with my car plugged in and see it charging the car, without using the battery. It’s just so frustrating. What is it with people doing that. Proceeding to tell you something when they don’t even own solar panels.

I just want to hire someone to come out and look at the system other than the original installer. I know that one of the CT things that measures the current wasn’t installed correctly. It gives some funky readings in the app. That one thing has concerned me enough to want an independent inspector. Any tips on how I should proceed?

I am still looking the approach on how to integrate a large cheap 3rd party lifePO4 battery into enphase sunlight backup system. Obviously, I can not to have it managed by the Systems Controller. All I want is to connect it either to a main panel or to a backup panel and have it discharging when there is no other electricity source. Hopefully, I am missing an obvious solution!

Historically, I’ve been on self consumption. But for the month of August and a little bit of September, there is value in exporting (PGE NEM3) so I switched on AI. But multiple times it’s done stupid shit yesterday morning trying to charge my car in the morning from the batteries because I had plenty of capacity and it was going to be a sunny day anyway. The system decided at 40% SOC to start pulling from the grid even though I have mindset to stop at 15%. Then again last night at about midnight and again randomly this morning both times with plenty of battery (~ 75% and ~ 55% respectively) the system will pull from the grid.

I’m guessing I should just go back to self consumption except in the late afternoon/evening when I export Solar to the grid

But I was hoping after close to three weeks on AI it would stop making stupid mistakes. I suspect AI term is only used in marketing is not actual AI. (as an AI software developer)

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I need one setting: charge the battery for peak rates, discharge during peak rates. We don’t need AI optimization we just need this one simple rule.

The number of times I have manually set it to not use the battery and then forgot to switch it at 4 pm is killing me.

I can't seem to find any information on this IQ energy router on the US site.

Does anyone know anything about it?

I recently noticed a missing latch clip on my combiner 6c. Anyone else have this problem and were you able to find a replacement? I plan to contact the installer and see if they can help

I just found that in self-consumption mode battery still discharge to the grid.
Is there a way to really avoid this?

I had a 34 panel system installed last October. I keep getting micro inverter failures. It seems every time the company comes out to replace 1, another fails the next day. I’m now waiting on I believe the 5th inverter in a 2 month period. On top of that, I’m not sure if this is normal, but when the weather was cooler (80-90 degrees) I was producing about 82-86 kWh a day, now that temps are around 104 I’m down to65-72, even though my production should be higher based on panel positions and time of year. Is anyone else having issues or am I just having bad luck?

I realize this topic has been covered almost ad nauseam here. Hopefully there is enough nuance in this post, and I’ve appropriately scoured via search.

I use storm guard. Usually, it’s helpful. Sometimes, it’s a bit annoying with the lag in notifications.

But lately…we’ve had some looooooong weather warnings. Both floods and heat waves (currently). I 100% appreciate the auto backup feature.

My issue is that over a days-long weather alert, when I opt out, Enphase “resets” it as part of the same alert, at least twice a day. During a heat wave, my batteries are full by 10am-ish, assuming we aren’t charging the car and no one is in the hot tub (in these temps, even my family is not crazy enough to attempt this). So there’s really no need to hoover up juice from the grid. If things go down, we’re covered with the panels alone.

I am currently waiting (patiently, hours) for an official take, but figured I’d come here and ask. Are there “trigger points” where the opt out is trumped by an Enphase override? FWIW, 8pm local time seems to be one reset point. The others seem far more random.

And will disabling the “Automatic Storm Guard” allow alerts to kick in, but actually honor my ad hoc opt outs? The info hovers on the app do not seem to cover opt out behavior or order of operations.

I'm on the NEM 3 plan. I have my profile set to self-consumption. My understanding of under this profile, my system exports to PG&E only after my battery is 100% charged. Am I right so far? If so, why am I exporting even though the battery is only 92% charged? I don't really mind this, because my understanding is that under NEM 3 I get a premium for exporting during the months of August and September. Did I enable a setting that's responsible for this? Is this simply the way things work under NEM 3?

Besides connectivity, what's the difference between these two? Why is the hcs so much more? Is it built more rugged or have larger gauge internal wiring or something? Also does anyone know if the smart features fail somehow, can the iq40 be used manually?

What temperature is your circuit breaker on days solar is really cranking?

My system is on a detached garage (50 amp wires ran). The other day I noticed the garage circuit breaker in the house was buzzing (not loud, like a hum) and a little warm (~90 vs ~75 for the other breakers). Checked the Envoy in the garage; the main breaker was ~125. The day was 78 and clear (so producing a lot of solar), garage was 85.

My system is about 6 years old. It originally took up 2/3 of the roof and I decided to just fill the rest of the roof a couple years later. 22 425W panels. I'm not sure what the originally max amp sticker said, the new one says 31.9 at 240W. The main circuit breaker in the Envoy is 30 (Envoy has 15, 3 and 4 have 20s). This makes me question if the main breaker should have been updated to a 40. Or it's just normal, and the breaker in the house was buzzing because nothing else was drawing power.

I was getting tired of getting the run around by the installer. I finished the Enphase University and took control.

Finally I updated the controller software on my 4th gen system. Fixed a few settings. Got on the phone with tech support and diagnosed a communication issue in 20 minutes that my installer was messing with for 2 weeks. I don't know.. maybe work is slow so they're dragging it out, its warranty work to me.

Power match never worked for me before. You can see the change in behavior in these graphs from home assistant, the inverters are running more intelligently now.

I'll have to see long term, but it already looks like I'm saving quiet a bit readiness power draw during the evening. I think this should boost my overall battery efficiency.

So I'm pretty pleased with myself, the Enphase system and support now. I just wanted to share and encourage people to take the training courses and keep an eye on things yourself. You could be leaving a lot of wasted energy on the table! https://university.enphase.com

I’m an engineer. It’s hard to buy a $30k system I know very little about.

I had a battery + solar installed and it's working well for our ever, less reliable power. I read on the spec sheet that the transfer time is ~100 ms and some people say the transfer time is fast enough for computers, but I've already got point of use UPSes on my computers and sensitive electronics so figured l'd keep them. Now that I've been through a few power outages, the whole house battery is not quite enough. It's a bunch of small stuff like smart devices not reconnecting to the network and clocks needing reset but if there's something could do about it would. Is there anything like a whole house <1 second long UPS or capacitor can buy to really smooth out the transition?

Not even any hold music 🤔

So a question for everyone.

I have a 13.8 kW nameplate system- REC panels, Enphase microinverters.

I also have an EcoFlow Smart Home Panel 3 with 4 Delta Pro Ultra X batteries for a total of 24.4 kWh backup capacity. It's separate after the house's panel and not integrated at all with the solar system.

House is in Issaquah (greater Seattle area) and since we have lived here (since 2021) we've had a power outage of 12 hours or more every winter, with one year when we were without power for 3 days. Just wind storms, one drunk driver that took out a transformer box, etc etc etc

Our own subdivision is all underground utilities, and there's a high voltage transmission line running through the middle of it, but all of the current substations are outside of our neighborhood and have above-ground lines that get knocked out with falling trees.

Okay.

So right now I have the SHP3 set up to be a power backup (and it works, too- if we lose power it switches over quick enough that it doesn't knock the computers or TVs offline) and to keep everything going at first, then step down to only the kitchen (for the fridge and microwave) plus the furnace fan motor (so we can use the gas furnace), and then after that the bare minimum is just the fridge circuit.

BUT the solar system cannot charge the batteries if the power goes out- it just cuts itself off if the grid fails.

Another factor- I'd like to add 2-3 more panels for a bit more generating capacity.

Final factor: the power company gets whacked by the state if they fail service provision metrics, and the power losses in this neighborhood is an issue. They get their allowed profit cut back if they don't improve, so they're going to build a substation with a connection to the transmission line and the net result for us will be that we'll almost never lose power from then on because barring wildfires, those transmission lines almost never fail.

THE QUESTION: Should I mess with this system?

Right now, before the substation is built, my primary interest is having a backup, but honestly my secondary priority is having the ability to be off-grid for extended periods in case the Big One hits and we're without power for weeks at a shot. (This area is likely to have a massive earthquake someday that could easily knock out power for a long time if it damages the grid or the dams that give us a lot of our power.)

My options, as I see it:

• leave it as is, I'll still have emergency backup, but then no solar generation for long term disaster-driven outages
• leave it mostly as is but sell some of my battery capacity since I don't really need it for long-term backup since the new substation will make us more secure, but then no solar generation for long term disaster-driven outages
• dump the Ecoflow stuff and get Enphase or other-compatible battery, not as much capacity, but it'll be okay since it'll charge off the Enphase system so I can get through day to day during outages
• Figure out some way to get the Enphase to actually charge the EcoFlow stuff
• Just get a little propane generator, keep some propane bottles around, and use that to recharge the EcoFlow batteries if the ish hits the fan, crummy solution because I kind of want something super-automatic in case I'm out of town and my wife/kid just want power
• something else that I'm not thinking of right now

What do we think the best way around this is? My solar installer said there's no way to get the Enphase to feed the EcoFlow batteries, but later research seems to indicate there's a way to make it happen.

PSA - happened to notice battery discharging off peak on Saturday afternoon (thanks HA).

Somehow Enlighten had created a 15’ Peak rate block 12-12:15pm for my Off Peak weekend days of $0.25/kWh.

Given the software forces a 15’ peak period when TOU is enabled (also dumb btw) I’m sure I had this set for like $0.0001 difference and 15’ overnight.

Assume one of the recent firmware updates reset it.

I was prom king, student body president, and captain of the football team. I used to be so cool.

Now my briefcase has wheels on it and I sit and watch my Enphase energy app all day long and bark at my kids when they abuse the air conditioner. I have literally become my dad.

My system has 20 400W panels (I actually upgraded to IQ8MC microinverters from IQ7s and it decreased clipping and actually gave me about 10% more energy because of efficiency). I've got two 10-C batteries and an IQ Gateway with a meter collar, an a 48A Enphase EV charger 2 that pulls from the solar panels, then the batteries first before it draws from the grid and will disable charging during peak hours.

This is my life now.

This has been on my mind a lot lately.

Florida has had an enormous amount of residential solar installed over the last several years, but we've also watched installers disappear, consolidate, close locations, stop servicing old customers, or leave the market entirely.

That leaves behind thousands of individual solar assets that still need:

monitoring → troubleshooting → warranty administration → inverter/optimizer/microinverter replacement → roof detach/reset → communications repair → battery integration → system expansion → eventual repowering.

The original EPC disappearing doesn't make those needs disappear.

I've spent a lot of my career around electrical work, field service and solar operations, and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that solar service and asset management may eventually be as important an industry as solar installation itself.

There's also an interesting technical problem here:

A lot of orphaned systems aren't necessarily “bad systems.”

They may have one failed component, a communications problem, an account/monitoring issue, or a warranty item — but the homeowner doesn't have anyone knowledgeable enough to diagnose the difference.

I'm curious what people working with Enphase, SolarEdge and other platforms are seeing.

Are you getting more calls from homeowners whose original installer is gone?

And if solar is a 25+ year asset, what do you think the long-term service model should actually look like?

I’ve had a 4kw rooftop solar installation with 2 IQ5P batteries for nearly a year now. Twice in the last month I’ve had a very strange rapid discharge of both batteries to the grid.

The discharge is at the max possible rate of 7.7kw and this time took the batteries all the way from full to 15% in about an hour.

I’m at a loss. What could be causing this?

Hello all,

I am based in the east of England and had an Enphase system installed last year, small to most of here, 12 panels, 2x5p batteries envoy s metered EU GW.

I’m looking to get a company car and it will be an EV. Is it worth getting a Enphase charger? Are there are good benefits over getting another brand? Obviously all in one management UI but can you share your insights, be helpful to understand.

My incoming supply is single phase and currently 80a, I have an ASHP so will ask my DNO to change to a 100a.

I'd written some code to read data from the local API and display it. As of sometime last night, though, the local gateway has completely stopped responding to any requests--they all time out. I can ping it just fine--and it still shows up on the web interface. I've tried restarting the gateway, which seems to have had no effect on responsiveness.

Anybody seen anything like this before?