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To conserve battery power especially in low-solar times, I would like to feed power only for example 1h/day (ventilation, cameras, 4g router etc). Is it/will it be possible to program this to CCGX so that it switches inverter ON everyday at noon at OFF at 13.00?
Are you worried about the standby load of the inverter? Or the consumption of the loads?
The lowest cost solution would be an external 24 hour 240v wall socket timer. They are $5 at a hardware store.
The standby load is what I want to cut. Noticed from my BVM that inverter (without load) OFF is about 8w and ON about 24W,
There is no Victron supported option within the normal interface for this.
However, it seems like something that may be possible with node-red:
https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/blob/master/documentation/specification.md
If you pursue this, please report back so that other community members can learn from your experience.
Great, thank you for that. Will look into it, and eventually let you guys know if managed to get that working!
If your inverter has a remote switch possibility you could use the generator start / stop function of the Venus device to switch the inverter on. (connecting the Venus relay to the remote switch)
Use 'daily test run' for simplest programming of the generator function.
I'm afraid it is not possible when also connected to a Venus devices or other remote panel.
I know it's on the feature request list to be able to switch on/off the inverters with a Venus device connected...maybe we need to shout about it to get it higher on the list.
