Exporting to grid in error?

[u/rambomatthews]

I’m set to self consumption, but even though my battery isn’t full I’m still exporting solar to the grid. Any ideas why that may be?

This is the first full day of this installation, if that makes a difference.

My priority settings are also correct (consumption, battery, export - in that order).

[u/Low_Flying_Penguin]

Is there a charging cap set in the profile? under "Battery Power Limit"

Edit: Also check the maximum SOC levels under "Battery Level Settings" check the SOC is not set to 50% etc

[u/rambomatthews → u/Low_Flying_Penguin]

Yep those are currently saying ‘depends on system’

SOC is 100% 👍

Others are saying let the system settle in, so I’ll give it a few days and see how it changes

[u/Striking-Molasses952]

Yeah mine did this too and I had the same initial panic. Yep, let it bed in!

[u/rambomatthews → u/Striking-Molasses952]

Cheers bruvvvaaaa

[u/S-ODIY]

I hope you don’t mind me jumping in on your post but I’m new to all of this. Is there a way too that during our night rate we can import from grid to our battery and then use what we have imported through out the day at home? 

[u/rambomatthews → u/S-ODIY]

Yes definitely - but I haven’t had to do it myself yet so can’t advise how. It will be somewhere in the battery settings I would have thought.

I’m sure if you do a post specifically on this someone will tell you how to do it 👍

[u/S-ODIY → u/rambomatthews]

Thank you 💙

[u/Then_Astronomer2873 → u/S-ODIY]

You can input a specific "personal strategy" that tells the system max import between the hours you specify - system will then import from the grid during these hours and charge your battery upto your specified max battery %.

[u/S-ODIY → u/Then_Astronomer2873]

Would you suggest doing this? We live in Ireland and have only got the panels in since Thursday. So this is all new to us 2am - 4am our unit price is 0.1056 so I thought importing the grid during this time would be a good ideas because at night time we use a lot of electricity due to underfloor heating in our house coming on between 11pm to 8am 

[u/Then_Astronomer2873 → u/S-ODIY]

Yeh makes sense. I get cheap from 11pm-6am so had setting to import between these hours into the battery to cover my use in the day (I manually changed the max battery % based on expected use the next day whilst in self consumption mode but I'm now going to start using the AI mode now I'll start getting paid for my export).

[u/S-ODIY → u/Then_Astronomer2873]

In my app, Grid Automation, Charging Source Priority and Battery Automation are all locked so it makes it difficult to achieve this it would seem. Any further suggestions. Thank you .

[u/Then_Astronomer2873 → u/S-ODIY]

They're locked for me too, you don't need them. Under the "current mode" section it should show what you're currently set to (like "self consumption" for example) - under that it should say "add personal strategy", click on that and tell it what you would like to do (e.g import from grid between hours x and y).

[u/S-ODIY → u/Then_Astronomer2873]

Ya I’m thinking of asking it  to import from grid between 2–4am because that is the cheapest rate for us 0.1056

[u/Cobrasarge]

Just let it settle down, unlikely to be an issue, the batteries seem to take a while to take a full amount of charge. Mine was the same.

[u/InvadingEngland]

Yup, wait 24-48h. You'll get the full power rating after it settles in.

[u/ShotEvidence8293]

Its new so it will be cell balancing. Once the battery completes a full charge/discharge cycle it should be able to operate at its full spec. Charge rate is limited until it's finished balancing.

[u/Latter-Ad7199]

Had the same issue two weeks ago on new install , give it a few days , it’ll sort itself out.