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Trying to find a way to switch a auto start generator off when the solar is meeting the loads for a certain period of time.
For example, the generator starts early in the morning, 10 minutes before the solar meets the load, now the generator continues to charge the batteries to 30% SOC, meanwhile the sun is out and its just wasting diesel.
use voltage as the start and stop triggers in say quite hours and you can have finer control of how long it runs,
Full automation of this would need Node Red I think. Quite a few conditions to test like time of day, SoC and solar output.
A rudimentary way would be to set the generator quiet hours to be during daytime. Quiet hours can have different lower and upper SoC limits which could both be set very low to make it unlikely the generator would need to run.
