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So after about 4 months of having to invoke Bulk charging manually on my XW+, a couple weeks ago it started charging on it's own as it discharged down to 47 volts. I have recharge set at 46.5V & Grid Support set to 47V. Don't know why, but I'll take it. It's as if it 'learned' when to recharge. :D

Hi All, I was able to get a $1000 refund thru PayPal on my purchase. I inadvertently closed my dispute on Ebay not realizing there were no other options for redress. PayPal however has provisions for partial refund which Ebay lacks. I explained the situation to PayPal and they ruled in my...

TechDirect refuses to make things right. My post below to the Ebay community looking for help: I recently purchased 49 used Nissan Leaf battery modules from TechDirect for $3200 to double my home energy storage system capacity. Their advertising says the batteries should have a minimum capacity...

FYI DIYers - I purchased 49 Leaf modules from Tech Direct on eBay to double my battery bank capacity. Their advertising says modules have a minimum of 70% from original capacity. This equates to 17.15Kwh for all 49 modules and the ones they sent me have less than 10Kwh of capacity. Instead of...

Well, we have evolution. I did another factory reset and went through setup process again and it's all working. Between my extension wire being shorted between conductors early on, a pushed pin on one connector, and operator error :D , problem solved. Can't wait to see how much capacity I have...

I've noted that the 4 Leafmons I'm having problems with all power up normally and the green LED's remain on for a while, but then they turn off. Is this normal behavior when they aren't connected to the daisy chain? Thanks.

Can't get the last 4 Leafmons to remain powered up when I try to connect. Thus no network connectivity or opportunity to sync.

Hi OffGrid, I've done all the debugging you describe. The 3 Leafmons in R/H cabinet work. The reason I ground the cabinets is for AC noise. Car charger and XW+ really close by. The twisting of the wires is to cancel noise. The 4 Leafmons in the L/H cabinet boot up properly but when I try to add...

Thanks for the tips Offgrid. I can get the first 3 Leafmons to work. When I plug into any of the 4 in the left cabinet, it flashes red LED and shuts off. Verified all my wires on the right packs. Thought it might be that I hadn't installed ground strap on left cabinet. Did that and the Leafmons...

Hi DIYers, I have doubled my Leaf modules. 14S14P. Now I'm having failed communication between LeafMons and WatchMon. The LED Device Identifier function works and correctly identifies all 14 LeafMons but the network test fails. Nothing received. I had to extend the last set of wires by a couple...

Noted this morning XW+ was in the AC Pass Through 1/2 volt void above Recharge Voltage and only drawing about 15 watts. It went into AC Pass Through at 10pm last night at 47 volts and at 6:30am it was at 46.89 volts. Still 0.39 volts above 46.5v recharge setting. So all things being equal, I...

Yup. Mines done that once or twice. It seems theres always a 50 or 60 watt draw from battery to XW when in AC Pass Through. Think mine takes about 8 hours to burn that last half volt and begin charging. I have my grid support & recharge voltageset same as yours. I like to dochargingduring the...

No, clyleadams, I have not resolved the issue. I still need to wire in the Batrium. In my situation with net metering, grid acts as battery so all excess PV goes to grid. Doesnt matter where the AC for charging battery comes from. Ive just been manually bulk charging every few days. Im pretty...

Yes, it finally showed up the other day. Was on back order with my supplier. ComBox for sale on Ebay. Haven't done anything other than get it installed. Still need to wire in the CAN bus to the Watchmon but I'm not in a hurry anyway. I'll let Batrium know they can use my setup for testing...

When you have net metering, the grid acts as a battery. The only drawback of charging at night is that XW+ in AC Pass thru mode during charge cycle so energy stored in Leaf battery not being used at that time to power loads. This is why I will have charge block for nighttime hours once recharge...

I finally got a response from Schneider: Hello John, I attach the XW+ users guide where you can see in page 3-26 all the grid support modes and in figure 3-6 how the different features can work. You have to put Grid support volts always upper than recharge volts (at least 0,5VDC my...

Yes, I noted that the Gateway has the CAN bus interface. I have one on order to replace my ComBox which will go up for sale on Ebay. Still haven't heard back from Schneider on my Grid Support issue and it's been more than a week since I contacted them.

Makes no difference on the current flow. This last cycle it happened at night. No AC from solar. I am changing out my ComBox to a Gateway and then Schneider should be able to log into system remotely to see what's going on. There has to be other people experiencing the same issue.

So it turns out XW+ still goes from Grid Support to AC Pass Through 0.5 volts above Recharge Voltage of 50 volts with Grid Support volts set at 50.1. Also my generator test failed as XW+ did not qualify power after 10 minutes of running generator. Voltage and frequency within parameters set. So...

Here's a couple pics @slimf: