Inverter fault?

sevenhills

I have been up in my loft laying loftboards and I noticed the fault light on my inverter.



The green power light was also flickering, and as darkness drew closer the inverter had no lights on, no power.
I have just received my money from the last quarter, so the last time I looked the panels were generating electricity.
Maybe the power will come back once the sun is back? The set-up is around 3 years old. Fitted when it was a council house, I have now bought the house, and I own the panels. The brand of the inverter is 'Afore'.

Going away for the day tomorrow, see what happens when I get back.

rustyg

Read your generation meter before you go and again when you return. If it's increased, your inverter must have worked in your absence.

The_Green_Hornet

A copy of the user manual can be found here - https://www.topquoter.com/images/solar-panels/afore-inverter-user-manual.pdf

Fault LED (red):
This LED indicates that the grid-feeding process has been terminated as a result of a
malfunction.
Please wait for about 10 minutes to verify if the malfunction is only temporarily. If
not, please contact your authorized electrician. On elimination of the error the grid
feeding process is re-started after about 5 minutes.
In the event of a fuse failure please contact your authorized electrician. In case of a
general power grid failure please wait until the problem has been resolved. The
inverter will restart automatically.

Ectophile

Inverters often do go to sleep at night. If they stayed on when there's no sunlight, they would just be using mains power and costing you money.


Check the consumer unit (fuseboard) that's connected to the inverter. My old inverter often used to trip the breaker after a storm. I had to crawl into the meter cupboard to reset the breaker once the storm had passed.


Otherwise, as rustyg says, keep an eye on the generation meter over the next few days.

sevenhills

Ectophile wrote: »

Otherwise, as rustyg says, keep an eye on the generation meter over the next few days.

I have just checked the generation numbers, and it is still generating. I have never checked it on a daily basis, but I would guess its a normal days electrictygenerated.
I will have a look at the manual and see how it goes.