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Difference between Grid and ACout in power

Hi all


Have significant differences in Power between grid meter (EM540) and ACout. There are no consumers between EM540 and ACin.

Would understand it, if ACout would be lower values due to self consumption of the MPIIs, but vice versa (higher output than input) is strange...


My setup:

  • 3x MPII 5000/48 (firmware 500)
  • 1x MPPT 150/60 (firmware 3.13)
  • 1x SE 12.5k on ACout
  • 1x battery LiFePo with daly bms
  • grid meter Gavazzi EM540 firmware 4867
  • VenusOS on RPi v3.00-14
  • ESS

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Any suggestions where this is coming from?

thank you
Wolferl

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hominidae answered ·

...Critical Load value also contains the Power used by your installation itself, like MPII and MPTT etcpp.

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wolferl answered ·

Hi

@Hominidae: I assumed that, but where is the power coming from? EM540 measures the grid, so this is the absolute power the installation gets. Battery is 0, PV and MPPT is 0 (night).

From my perspective it should be vice versa: critical loads is the real consumption on ac1 out and the grid should supply more power than that to cover the self consumption...




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hominidae avatar image hominidae commented ·

Ah, I actually missed that the grid meter value is much lower that the reported consumption on AC-In/-Out. IMHO that shouldn't be the case indeed.

Maybe there is a deviation in the accuracy of the internal measurements, assuming that the grid meter is working fine.


Edit: critical loads on ac1-out measurement does contain the real loads plus consumption of MP2 itself. my loads are on ac-in only, hence loads on ac1-out show the power drawn by my 3 MP2.

There is always a slight mismatch in numbers, but in general grid power should be equal or higher that the AC loads in toatl (with PV = 0 during night).

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kevgermany answered ·

Odd that the battery is at 80%, but not charging.

Is this a three phase system?

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wolferl answered ·

"in general grid power should be equal or higher that the AC loads in toatl"

That is what I would assume as well, the energy cannot come from Nirwana...

It's a three phase system, ESS, Battery life, I set the SOC limit to 80%. It only charges further when solar power is available und consumes these 20% during non solar power time slots.

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wolferl answered ·

same output on VRM portal. There must be a mismatch somewhere...

Energy output cannot be higher than input!



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