This is probably a new feature request, rather than a question/discussion point.
I have the illustrated equipment in my house. The inverter is rated 8kW contiuous, battery banks total 20kWh. The inverter can/does supply house needs, and so I run the house 'off grid' when I can. The system is set up up so that it views the grid as a generator, and the 'Periodic Run' function within 'Generator start/stop settings' is used to auto-connect the system to the grid at night to top up the batteries during the darker months as required. This has been working perfectly for 6 months. I have a relatively small PV array, but at this time of year they can be producing up to 1.4kW with the batteries at 100%. The system copes with this situation by shuting down the ac coupled PV inverter.
But it would be so much better to export this surplus power. I can and do reconnect to the grid manually using the Generator options on the VRM dashboad, but it would be simpler and more reliable to do this automatically.
The 'Battery SOC' option within the 'Generator start/stop settings' opperates on SOC, BUT as a generator would normally be turned on when the battery SOC is low, not high, it cannot be used for this purpose. If only the 'Start when battery SOC is lower than' was tweaked to become 'Start when battery SOC is lower/higher than' with a option to reverse the logic.
I suspect I could do this via the 'programmable relay' assistant but if family members are to have any hope of taking over this setup then having the option within the normal menus is much more attractive.
Apart from tweaking the menu options as suggested above, can anyone think of an alternative way of achieving reconnection to export surplus PV power, or have experience of using the programmable relay assistant for such a purpose? I am hoping to increase my PV array to make the house self sufficient for more months at some point, and this would of course exacerbate the situation.
