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hi everybody today we're going to be
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talking about how to set up your solar
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Edge inverter and some of the different
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settings that are on the inverter and
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how you can change them and kind of play
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with them a little bit if you need to so
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first thing we're going to do is we are
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going to
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um
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we're gonna log into the phone
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okay then we're gonna go to our setup on
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our phone so that's a little lap here
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I'm going to let you guys just kind of
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see this this is this app right here
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this is set up for solar Edge we're
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gonna go ahead and click on of that it's
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going to ask us to scan our QR code our
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QR codes can be found on the side of the
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inverter
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right underneath where the
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where the serial numbers and all that
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are found right on that same sticker so
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I'm gonna go ahead and scan that guy
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as soon as we scan it we're going to
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come over here to our toggle which is in
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between right next to our lights
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we're going to pull that guy over to its
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right side just for two seconds
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and one two and then we're gonna come in
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here and check our Wi-Fi settings
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so Wi-Fi on
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if we can see this here
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and then we're going to look for the
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serial number for the solar Edge
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inverter it is always the same so if you
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can't get into these remember check this
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serial number here and make sure it
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matches the top cover so that's always
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the first thing if you can't get in now
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once I have that I'm going to go back
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into my main you know situation and just
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hit continue now that I know it's there
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it's going to ask me if I want to
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connect to that device go ahead and do
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so
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we're gonna walk around the corner here
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to where we don't have so much sun here
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and now it says it's complete we want to
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go ahead and screenshot that
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we're going to come here this is where
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the firmware usually there's firmware
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that needs to be uploaded I just did
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that you'll usually take seven to about
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30 minutes measuring how much firmware
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needs to be done or if there's batteries
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or other items we're going to go ahead
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and hit continue
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it's going to process for a second and
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the first thing we always want to do
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after doing an update is coming in here
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to Country and language
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making sure it is set to us Rule 21 240.
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now if you look on the screen it will
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actually if you scroll all the way down
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the bottom it's always the third one
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from the top there so you're good to go
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there and then I always set it even if
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it's already set so you're going to want
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to hit it say yes I want to do that
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and then it will reset the whole device
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okay that is something you need to do
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every single time you turn on and off
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the inverter okay
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now we can go over here to pairing if we
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need to pair this say that this system
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has never been paired before we're
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firing up for the first time we can
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always go into status and see do we have
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anything in the optimizer let's say it's
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a zero of zero we want to make sure our
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DC disconnect is on but if that's the
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case we can go ahead let's say it's zero
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zero we can go into pairing you're going
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to click pairing
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it's going to hit you'll hit start
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pairing pretty simple stuff it will
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start counting down at that point
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now the next one you're going to see
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here is monitoring communication
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monitoring communication is dealing with
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the actual communication of the cell
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card
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so we can go ahead let's say that this
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said did not say connected that's okay
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we can go in here and see where it's at
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so it'll tell us what stage it's in if
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it is DNS usually it will eventually get
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to monitoring uh monitoring data sok so
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that's where we want to be is the very
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bottom so we'll go ahead and hit done
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because we're all good to go there that
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is also on the status screen
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so if we go down here to the status
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screen we can do the same thing on the
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status screen
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go ahead and hit it it does the same
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readout again we'll go ahead and hit
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done because it is all set to go
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now let's go back in here
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site communication site communication is
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useful when we're hooking up other items
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to it we'll usually find everything we
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need to know in
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the protocol here for uh the different
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devices there's only one device here but
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let's say there's multiple devices or
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there was you know batteries things like
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that all that would come up in this area
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so once we're done there we can go ahead
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and go back out again
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power control this is a really important
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page it gives us a few things that we
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need we'll kind of go over some of the
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ones that are easy and some of the ones
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that are going to be a little harder
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uh power control come on
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all right now we can go down here we
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want to go to
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um
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energy manager so we're going to go
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ahead let's go to active power first so
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active power
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we're going to go ahead and click onto
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that we want to make sure our power
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limit is set to 100 percent if we need
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to change that we can literally just
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click on it and change it down to any
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percentage we want let's say we had PG e
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wanted us to derate the system because
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of
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a bad Transformer so we can go ahead
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we're going to leave it at 100.
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it's going to take us to the next time
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we're going to go ahead now we can go
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into our uh
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go back out of here we're going to go
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ahead and energy manager energy manager
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has a lot of our limit controls and
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things like that so we're gonna go ahead
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and uh
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this would be where you'd find your time
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of use maximum use as far as battery
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controls so this is an energy control
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and if you have the whole battery and
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everything set up this will be where
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you'll find the uh backup only scenario
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if that's what you have your battery set
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to now once we've got that we're going
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to go ahead and hit storage control
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storage control tells us whether we can
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engage the AC charging limit
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AC charging limit is kind of cool you
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can usually it will give you a couple
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different versions here if you have
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batteries on site that will give you
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whether you have the ability to trickle
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charge only up to a certain level or
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completely Charge Off the Grid in an
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emergency I usually leave that as AC
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charge no limit
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okay and then you have some advanced
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settings that you'll see now you will
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see more on this page if you have
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batteries hooked up to the system so
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once you've done a battery test and all
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that it will tail everything to wake up
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so that's kind of where you're going to
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find that now if you come back out all
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the way back out
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you're going to see information
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this is where we'll find any kind of air
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log so if we come here to the airlock it
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says we got three errors fairly common
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errors we're going to see this was about
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a two months ago so none of these were
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worried about but it says we have a
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country code selection air that's why we
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always reset the country code it hit it
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again that same day on that same day we
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had a meter air all very common until
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the system's all set up so I would I
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would expect to see those
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so once I get all the way back out of
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there we'll go over here to
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[Music]
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um
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device manager oh sorry I hit the wrong
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button there
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we're gonna go over here to maintenance
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[Music]
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come on
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now maintenance if we go into
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Diagnostics
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this will give us our Optimizer status
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we can go ahead and click on the
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optimizer which tells us all 30
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optimizers are working if we wanted to
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see an Optimizer that wasn't working
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maybe one that was that was going down
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but we knew you know we were having
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troubles with that we looked on our
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other app and notice it was this could
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tell us what our voltages are and then
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we want to compare those two ones that
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are close by so this one says 21 volts
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and 37 if we go over here and we test
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one that's right next to it 21 volts and
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37. so that's fairly common saying the
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same thing 20 volts and 37 so that's
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what we're looking for that was let's
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say 10 volts that'd be a sign it was bad
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or if all the rest of them are 30 and
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this one's at 20 that'd be something to
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be worried about but that allows us to
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be able to see in real time what's going
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on is it a bad panel usually if we have
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low DC voltage that would be a problem
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if we had no voltage there that would
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also be a problem but allows us to be
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able to see that
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now once we've done that we can kind of
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come back out
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this would be standby mode if you wanted
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to
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go in there and activate standby mode
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like let's say your jurisdiction
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requires that you disable the inverter
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until you have permission to operate
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this is where you could do it and then
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re-set it from the office if you'd like
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which is kind of a nice feature
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now we're going to come back kid down
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here to our main screen which is status
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we're looking for something producing in
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the power section this is in kilowatts
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so it's three thousand six hundred or
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three thousand eight hundred and uh 20
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uh Watts or 2.82 kilowatts voltage is
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coming from the street so we're getting
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uh 240 volts from the street
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we're getting 60 hertz from the street
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we are now in here we're getting 30 of
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30 optimizers you get an Optimizer for
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every panel that's on the roof so if you
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have 28 panels
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20 to 28 if it's something less than
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that maybe a few minutes that can take
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up to 30 minutes
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we're back over here to our server which
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will eventually say that's okay but
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um I just reset it when we were in the
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other the other thing status you know
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it's producing it will say all kinds of
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things stand by all you know mattering
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what's going on
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we're going to want to see your power
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limit set to the size of the inverter so
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if it's a 7600 it will be 6 or 7.6 it
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happens to be a 10K inverter it's going
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to jump up and down as this thing's
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resetting itself but we want to have it
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settle at that 10K
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um switch switch is on that's the toggle
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on the side you get in your DC voltage
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down here you'll see that we're using
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T-Mobile on the communications today's
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wattage this month's wattage you know
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the years full and total these are all
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real useful if you've gone to a system
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you're like hasn't been working the
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whole time well did it produce something
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today has It produced something this
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month it's produced some this year if
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all those are blank that means you're
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not getting anything at all
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but this kind of tells you guys how to
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set up your inverters and get them all
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working properly now just a heads up
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as it's doing grid monitoring across the
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top when it's doing that first thing it
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will give you your power your active
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power
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and if that number is zero and until it
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gets all the way down to zero and or
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down to zero on your grid monitoring
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you won't have anything in that as soon
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as it does you will hear the converter
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click click click click that's a good
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sign that's doing what it's supposed to
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be doing
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so if you guys have any questions at all
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remember these videos are for re review
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purposes only are not meant for training
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please go to solaredge and get your
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training through them get your
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certifications through them and make
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sure you're learning from a certified
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instructor
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and that these videos like I said are
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always there for review they're not
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meant to be training videos they're not
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meant to be anything else this is to
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help guys when they're on that field to
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help maybe see something that they you
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know thought they might have remembered
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in a one of our training trainings that
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