[VA Sunflower]

Never mind. Must have been a temporary glitch. I can post there now.

[VA Sunflower]

Was going to post in the support forum, but I can’t so I will post my question here.

When I select “Voltage” as the unit of measurement, the results don’t make sense (and I don’t mean with respect to volts not being a unit of energy/power).

I have two Vue 2 units, installed in separate panels. Each panel is fed directly from the meter. Each panel gets phase A and phase B.

Each panel’s phase A should be the same (e.g. 124 VAC), and each panel’s phase B should be the same (e.g. 122 VAC).

But instead (see screenshot), I have one voltage in one panel and another voltage in the other panel. Total Usage_A should be 124 and Total Usage_B should be 122, and all the loads should be 122 or 124, but they are all the same.

I checked that each Vue is connected to adjacent breakers via the black & red wires. Is that where the voltage measurement originates? If not, where is it sensing voltage?

 

[VA Sunflower]

I see about 50 watts solar generation at night on one of my two solar CTs.

I opened all the breakers for my solar array and it dropped to zero, so it was real power. The inverter consumption makes sense.

You would think solar systems would be smart enough to turn this off at night to avoid these “vampire” drains.

 

[VA Sunflower]

Your Y-cable must connect the sensors in series (not parallel)

 

I’m guessing that the “normal” configuration for a Y-splitter is parallel.

 

you’ll just want to make sure that your primary Gen 2 is the one flagged for solar (by selecting the “I have Solar/Generation” during the setup or reset process). The second Gen 2 isn’t required to have that flag set since it’s not tracking any net usage w/ its own 200A CT’s.

 

That’s an interesting point. I currently have both Vues flagged as “I have solar generation” even though only one  is monitoring the solar production. I guess this is not correct?

 

Thanks for the reply!

[VA Sunflower]

Add me to the list wanting this feature!

Nesting is not what I want. I want the display to be the same as if I had only one Vue.

I have ordered the mono Y-cables and plan on sending all four 200 amp CTs to one of the Vues, and then nesting the other under this Vue. Closer to what I want but not exactly.

Questions I have:

1) Can I plug the third 200 amp CT into the “C” port and only use one Y-cable, or do I need to use the Y on both?

2) I have solar tapped into one set of mains. Should the mains with the solar taps be the “primary” Vue (i.e. all four 200 amp CTs and the 50 amp solar CTs going to the same Vue), or should it be the nested Vue (i.e. 200 amp CTs go to one vue, and the 50 amp solar CTs go to the other Vue)?

 

Thanks.

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