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You're welcome for demonstrating how loud they are.

​@@McDIYtry a noise filter in editing.

There is a little hole like on the back of a wifi router to insert a paper clip and press the button. Just checked and it's labeled DST.

Thank you

I read that the Earth's magnetic field can interfere with the reading at such low amperage. To help reduce this put the meter near the wire you want to check and in the same orientation it will be in while checking. Then zero the meter right before clamping it around the conductor. When even more accuracy is needed I use an inline meter instead of clamp on. Not as convenient and only for low amperage. I usually check with the clamp on first to get a ball park so I don't blow the fuse in my meter.

@@McDIY Thanks ,I'll give it a try , I recently bought myself a Klein 325 manual meter just for reading low amperage, makes Dc milliamp reading quick & easy and repeatable.

Mine all charge to 4 LEDs with the inverters, they may not all get there at the exact same time.

No

The battery is work great. I am not pushing it hard on a regular basis but I did during testing. I am running a refigerator and AC in a shipping container office with a 3000watt inverter/charge controller and minimal solar panels.

We are running fridge and full deep freezer, tv, internet is satellite with router, 4 camera's and monitor. All night. Daytime add Mr cool for heating air-conditioning well pumps ect. Our solar system is 6kw hr full sun. Battery at 40 to 60% after each night. This was a test for this company. Had to send back first battery, had faulty LCD display.

Don't understand your comment

Not on the 3000s. I did on the 6500s.

Yes, it’s a cool concept. I haven’t had the chance to put my hands on one yet though.

I would think carefully about purchasing EG-4 battery packs from SS. I had an issue a couple months back which was finally resolved by James emailing me his personal feelings about my finding another supplier. No worries, Good luck was his response. We had purchased over $20,000 in equipment from SS in the past year. I do highly recommend watts247 as a reputable supplier and that company DOES stock replacement parts and DOES assist with repairs...

Thanks for the encouragement.

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See battery manual page 7 eg4electronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EG4-Lifepower4-Manual-2.1.0.pdf You may be thinking of the LL series but I have the LiFePOWER4 model.

@@McDIY hahaha. First an apology of sorts. I do CAD on my PC and all my notations are in CAPITALS! Occasionally I will switch over and send an email of text (WhatsApp on PC) and only after hitting send realize I sent the message in all CaPs!! People I know are used to it and don't take it for the text equv of shouting. I will even be lazy and see that I have half the message in caps, and just switch to lower case and keep typing without correcting, like I said, lazy. That being said, you are correct that I am incorrect, the LL series need first dip at 1 position.

@@verohandymike cheers

@@McDIY Did you ever get this fixed? I also suspect the DIP switches

LOL, Flukes are not within most peoples budget. My goal on CZcams is to help the non professionals save by doing things themselves.

Thank you, I will be on shift for the next week and hope to try this approach when off. I may run into a similar issue if all my meters display different voltage and resistance values, but hoping at least two read the same and I can discount the outliers.

I turned it off in settings

you ever get it fixed?

It is working fine, I have not put it through all the tests I would like to before HIGHLY recommending. It has some nice features for the price. Depending on the price you are paying for it and how much current you need to draw from it I would recommend it. Notice in the video the size of the main internal wires.

@D Mc thanks for your reply, I wouldn't have many amps drawn from it, I should be good. I wanted to be sure it was of a good quality. I watched your video 3 times so I would completely gather all the information you provided. Thanks again. If there's anything else you can tell me, please do.

Did you resolve the balance issue????

@M Gold No, I left for a couple months and turned most things off except fridge & freezer. Came back and they were all reaching 100%. Since then they seem to be discharging differently. 2 discharge 5 to 10% deeper than the others and still reach 100% Cycles are increasing accordingly. I can't seem to figure out why.

@@toddsimper Same her. Beginning to think SS is selling poor EG-4 units. Many are having exact same issues. SS very small company. Support guy most likely same as owner. They respond in days and I'm getting tired of the "unplug and reset" BS. Wish I had researched company deeper... Charles Massey below suggesting refurbished battery possibilities. Scary at $1500 each. I have 11 @ $16,500.

@@toddsimper Been at the Electronics Technician business for well over 50 years. You are correct in assuming each units BMS should stabilize the charge/discharge cycle within each cells specification. If little or no testing is performed on each cell it is just a matter of bad luck when a weak cell is installed. I have had no acceptable responses from SS and no longer expect any. Most small importers have little or no electronics experience with their products and in a matter of time disappear when enough customers discover their inability to support what they sell. SS provides a 5 year warranty that I describe as 5 years or across the street whichever comes first. I expect them to disappear like so many others who have adopted the eastern methods of sales. Buyer Beware is street version...

I like the display info better on the 3000 watt as it shows battery percentage instead of just 4 status lights as on the 6500. I have not noticed the power fluctuations on the 6500 that I have on the 3000. (EG4/Signature Solar says there is a software update that should fix this) I have not tested the idle consumption as there are several videos by others that have already done so. I was waiting for a new battery to arrive so I can re connect the 3000 watt inverters. I will first test the new battery before updating the software. I try not to have multiple variables while testing so as not to skew the results. I am not using mini splits, I am using window units. I have tried a handful with the 3000s. One is an older 120v, another is an older 220v, both are normal compressors. Two others are new, purchased after seeing the power fluctuations in the inverter hoping to solve the issue. The new ones are inverter compressors with soft start but that did not remedy the issue. The last AC is a 120v portable unit. Two of the 3000 watt inverters would run any three of the ACs at the same time, never tried running more. I was using four EG4 server rack batteries at that time.

@@McDIY Just checking in to see if you did that software update and if that solved your problem?

@@reviews2you Signature Solar has not yet sent me the special cable required.

The idle current on the 3000 is 1.45 amps at 52.5 volts equals ~76 watts. I hope to post a video of the measurement soon.

@@McDIY Dang man, that's what Will Prowse showed too. Their spec sheet says less than 50w idle consumption. That's a big difference by the time you have to of them over the full day that is 1.25kWh more of power waste

Not sure what you mean by up down. But my concern was also that this could shorten the life of either the inverters or the equipment they power or both. EG4 says they have a software update that should fix it but I am waiting for a new battery to hook them back up again. I am currently using all my batteries on my other system consisting of 2 EG4 6500 watt high frequency inverters.

I understand your frustration, but I feel they are doing what they can to resolve the issues. I can only imagine trying to weed out legitimate product issues from installation issues. Especially since many people buying these are complete novices not only to solar power systems but to any sort of electrical work.

@@McDIY usually when I'm contacting the supplier on a problem I've pretty much gone through every other scenario problem it could be to write off it's something I am doing. And then to have them want me to go through all that again after I told him I was 100% sure the product was defective. Frustrating. What signature solar did one of the two situations I had issues. The 30 amp battery charger. Putting out 18 amps. I was one of the first ones with the issue. Send it back and they wouldn't do a thing because I put an Anderson plug on the output. Then later on come to find out every freaking one of them sold was only 18 amps. Huge complaints huge blow up on a DIY forum. I did talk to the owner of the company he was great. But when their employees are accusing me of wrecking a product and blaming it all on me don't make me too happy. The other situation was my 12K inverter. Kept rebooting. Contact the signature solar no response. Somebody on a DIY form from Growatt sent me the firmware file and told me how to install it. No help at all no response from signature solar at that time. May 2021

I’ve been running a MPP LV2424 for a year and live it.I have run into issues and even with the time difference from Taiwan. They always get back to me right away with great help I just bought a EG4 6000ex an am wondering if I went wrong. You can’t get them on the phone to save your life anymore 2:30 hours today waiting on hold for tech support and still no answer WTF

@@cowboymcq6711 I think you will be just as happy with it as your current inverter. It's basically just bigger. I have found emailing tech support to be most convenient for me.

Their prices are good. And I'm thankful they're there so I can actually buy this type of stuff. I wish the customer service was better. But I think some of it is they sell the stuff to people that have no idea what they're doing. Have to deal with those people. That can take a lot of time to customer service.

@@bigblockcutlass123 I am looking to switch to the EG4 6000ex as well. I like the low frequency inverters even though they do require a lot of stand by power.

@@McDIYI bought growatt 5k. It died after 6 months. I just upgraded to the eg4 6500 inverter the Fans are super loud. It consume a lot more power than the Growatt 5k when use