Lux ac battery controller

piman72

Netexporter said:

And a supplementary question from me, if I may. I'm interested in the Fogstar rack battery system. One of the supported inverters is listed as Pylontech, although I've never seen one with that branding; do they mean Luxpower, which seems to be closely associated? 

Yes, I've got 4 rack batteries, set to Pylontech as the protocol, and changed the invertor to that protocol as well. all worked first time as expected.

Very happy with them.

philologus

I have 16 x300w panels, four 2.4 pylon batteries (9.6) and a pylon 3.6 hybrid inverter. In the back of my mind I remember reading that the maximum number of batteries my system cam support is 5 x2.4. Am I right?

If not, what is the max? A Fogstar 15.5? Or would I need a different inverter?

ianatkin

philologus said:

I have 16 x300w panels, four 2.4 pylon batteries (9.6) and a pylon 3.6 hybrid inverter. In the back of my mind I remember reading that the maximum number of batteries my system cam support is 5 x2.4. Am I right?

If not, what is the max? A Fogstar 15.5? Or would I need a different inverter?

I think eight is the maximum but I could be wrong - I have six working fine

EVandPV

ianatkin said:

philologus said:

I have 16 x300w panels, four 2.4 pylon batteries (9.6) and a pylon 3.6 hybrid inverter. In the back of my mind I remember reading that the maximum number of batteries my system cam support is 5 x2.4. Am I right?

If not, what is the max? A Fogstar 15.5? Or would I need a different inverter?

I think eight is the maximum but I could be wrong - I have six working fine

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's 8 too.

EVandPV

philologus said:

I have 16 x300w panels, four 2.4 pylon batteries (9.6) and a pylon 3.6 hybrid inverter. In the back of my mind I remember reading that the maximum number of batteries my system cam support is 5 x2.4. Am I right?

If not, what is the max? A Fogstar 15.5? Or would I need a different inverter?

Apparently you can connect up to 15 of those 15.5kwh Fogstar batteries in parallel.
With the Seplos diy kits, it's 16 in parallel.

1961Nick

I have 8 x 2.4kWh Pylontechs & that's the maximum for 1 inverter.

If I was buying batteries now I would probably opt for Fogstar.

philologus

Does anyone know if Lux are having some issues?

I keep getting the "offline" message.

Dave_Fowler

philologus said:

Does anyone know if Lux are having some issues?

I keep getting the "offline" message.

No problem here at the moment, but it's nothing unusual these days for their server to have short-lived problems - usually sorted within an hour or so.

Alnat1

I've been getting the offline message for around 3 days. It's intermittent so just keep trying.

philologus

Corrected itself now. I thought it might have been either my phone or the modem but it's just Infiniti having fun.

I bought another two Pylon 2.4s today. That takes me up to 14.4 now.

I've worked out that if I drive 10k miles a year that's 28 miles a day on average. That means I need to charge the EV up for six hours a day at 1.3kwh. With 13kwh useable in the battery it's doable and I can make use of any low/free/negative  prices that Octopus offer.

That's the theory anyway. Reality means that I'll probably end up with Intelligent Octopus because I'm lazy.