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AC connection to Multiplus 2 10kw

Hi, I am pulling what hair I have left out over this problem. My system is all up and running as an off grid system with Life04 Batteries. I also have several deep discharge leisure batteries and a 24 volt 15KW chinese inverter which is brand new and I had the idea that on a sunny day my solar power can charge up my Lead acids with my Victron 24 volt blue charger and then on poor solar days I could put some extra charge into the lipo's by connecting the 220 volt output of the Chinese inverter to the A/C input of the Victron Multi. and selecting charge only. Seems simple enough!
When I test it, I put the Multi into Charge only mode then switch on the inverter, the Multi flashes a green led in the A/C input display, then there is a clunk of a relay and it goes into an OVERLOAD fault condition, the Cerbo reports
"Warning Inverter overload" There is no way it's overloaded, first of all it's in charge only mode, the charge current was reduced to 20 amp for testing. I set "Shore power on the A/C input, tried Generator still the same, set the shore power current to 30 Amps set the system to accept a wide range of input frequency and a low of 180 to a high of 270 but always the same Overload, Have I a faulty Multi 2 or am I doing something wrong?

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Alistair Warburton avatar image Alistair Warburton commented ·
That setup should work, at least it should work if all you setting choices are correct...

I have two multi's as 24/5000 and a 48/5000 connect in seriese, 24 feeding 48. Iam also off grid and this is how I know it should work.

Importent points...
Current limits are neither hard or instant so it is possible to get an overcurrent before the dynamic limit get hold of the situation. I have seen this a few time when trying to connect AC in, for charging, when the battery is very low.
It isnt something I do oftern as I dont generally fully discharge th packs. Mistakes have been made on a couple o occasions though.

In charge only bypass is still possible, as far as I know, so your system could be attempting to power loads, dipping the AC voltage as a result and causing an inverter overload due to high current when charging.
There is only one bridge which is either charging ,idle or inverting,

Have you checked the setting of th ground relay? I had so odd trip issues when I neglected to disable the ground relay switching on the 24.

Have you looked at UPS and Assist settings? I dont think either would be active in charge only mode but you shoud know what is set and what effect that will have in all modes.

Happy to share config files if that helps at all.

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