Solar Battery

[ffuentes]

Team,

 

I dont see a search function so I guess ill ask 🙂

If I am trying to monitor my Charge and Discharge Backup Battery from my Solar Setup, Which ways do the clamps need to face?

Thanks!

[djwakelee]

Well, depends.  Emporia does not currently support bi-directional power flow on the circuit ports – only the mains.  If you have a dedicated Vue 2 for this, use the mains clamps (A & B).  That will show you the power in and out.  If you are trying to do this on the circuit clamps (1-16) on an existing Vue 2 (already using the mains clamps to monitor the mains), you will only be able to see absolute power flow on the circuit ports.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by djwakelee.

[ffuentes]

This is interesting.

So the battery setup option does not account for bi-directional reading.

This sucks 🙁

Can the C port on the main clamp be used as stand-alone?

If not, this would be cool to be used on things such as batteries.

[djwakelee]

The C port is only used for a 3 phase setup.  If you want to measure bi-directional power, that only option is using a 2nd Vue – and the mains clamps.

Emporia has claimed this could be added at some point (also an issue for solar and night-time vampire inverter / microinverter draw), but this is going on 2 years now and they don’t seem to be addressing system shortcomings – let alone new features.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by djwakelee.

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