After the disappointing discovery that Victron effectively forces the use of their inverters in a system via the way the software refuses to acknowledge AC loads unless a Victron inverter is present, is it possible to simply get the smallest, cheapest inverter and insert it into the system as a 'dummy' and trick the system into working correctly?
For example could I put a 240 to 12V power supply inside my distro box and attach a 250VA Phoenix to it and connect that to the Cerbo via VE.Direct, not attach any loads to it and still run my existing, non-Victron inverter with the ET112 measuring loads from that?
I also have an old backup lead acid system that stands in for a generator if my lithium system gets too low. This is controlled by a small 1.6KVA Victron inverter that is always on (it's just out of range of Bluetooth). Could I run cat6 to that to do the same thing?
Basically the question is: - Does the system care if the loads registered on the ET112 differ from and far exceed the maximum output of the inverter the system thinks is supplying those loads?
The problem I'm trying to solve is regulating the current supplied to the batteries from the charge controllers via DVCC. Without the AC Loads correctly accounted for in the system this doesn't work. Buying a new Victron 15KVA inverter is not an option (yes I need that much).
