good afternoon youtube just a quick update here on diversion load i finally hit some conditions where
both sides are working yeah i'm trying to figure out if this is actually working right or not looks
like yeah everybody's ramping up because i've got excess power on line one and excess power
on line two so they were both starting up trying to use negative power on each side or sharing the
diversion load but this is a case where they can't because there was no load on either side there's
some clouds blowing over today the solar power has been going up and down and this is the first time
we've had excess power now it looks like line two is sending power to line one so now we've
got the house power down to about seven watts i just wanted to look here so yes the re oh
the refrigerator kicked on and we're actually bringing in 353 watts on the grid tie system
that's why we had a lot of extra power here and then likewise this hybrid inverter power
so that's over here wow bringing in 1130 watts putting 28 amps into the battery and 182
watts into the load that's directly connected to the inverter so you've got roughly 95 plus
73 160 170 watts total and then that's feeding into line one or offsetting the power on line one
and driving the whole house down to seven watts once it zeros in on the amount of power coming in
and the amount of various loads taking power out it settles down pretty good here's the solar or pv
power output graph from the hybrid inverter and so this is the month of july this was
sort of the normal amount of power that was brought in you know anywhere from
like this was like a cloudy day 4.27 it's running right around 5 kilowatt hours per day
and then this day here the 27th i just put the sharing code in there and was testing it out
both these days here the 26th and 27th were fairly cloudy and it was able to bring in over a kilowatt
hour more and then the 28th i left the diversion load with sharing mode on most of the afternoon
i had it turned off a little bit i'll show you that that's the highest day i had all month 6.33
kilowatt hours so this is an hourly shot of the pv solar input power and you can see my solar panels
about 9 30 they get the sun the the sun moves around the trees that are off to my east and hit
the panel and then pretty much up until oh around noon this day was a little bit cloudy so it was
a little afternoon that i hit peak power about a kilowatt and then once the battery's charged
the power drops off i think this was probably running some loads in the shop the inverter was
powering that and then it just sort of tapered off during the day so if you ignore that blip
there the power that was collected just sort of tapers off until about eight o'clock and
then the sun's over the horizon now if i turn on the diversion load like i did on the 28th
early morning i don't get a lot of power and then it steps up here again by you know roughly
nine o'clock we had some clouds here and then the clouds burned off and we hit the peak power
and i had the diversion load with the sharing mode on all except for about an oh maybe 30
minutes or an hour here this chart is filled out completely except for that hole in the
middle where i turned it off this was the normal amount of power i'd be bringing in
but with the sharing mode i was pumping all of this power into the house loads the before
and then the after it's just dramatic and that that brought in yeah just about a kilowatt hour
of extra energy i did another relationship graph showing the share mode and assist mode conditions
that i added that part is controlled by this switch so this is switch position number three
turns on this whole house diversion load and that feeds this share condition so that's how i can
turn this condition on and off and then both these two conditions the share and the assist
looks at what's going on on line one and then it computes a number here and it computes a number
here and then my original code just looks at line two power and then the watts per step and it just
says what do i have to do for the current line two power how do i get rid of excess power on line two
this says can i use any excess load on line one and this one says can i help
mine one diversion load if it's overloaded and then they take the current setting and i add this
number and this number and this number together this is always positive here this goes from zero
to a hundred this can go from minus a hundred plus a hundred again these are floating point numbers
they can be anything and they just add up all four numbers you come up with a new setting and
then it goes to the original code that says is the new setting different than the old setting
and if it is it changes the load and if it isn't it just restarts the timer here all
i added were these two conditions so this is one line of code that's one line of code
and then this one has two extra things that it adds up and then there's just this device
property quite a powerful uh environment in that p-leg i've been looking at the reactor
automation package on vera and i think you can do all of these things except the one thing i
don't know about is if reactor supports timers they have expressions and conditions and actions
i forget what they call their actions but yeah if anybody has any uh input on that post up in
the comment section below and there we got both of them running now we have excess power on line one
and excess power on line two both diversion loads have to kick in so this guy will go up
yeah he went up to eight now this one is maxed out up here that's probably way too high yeah
so this one should probably drop yeah that's the highest i've seen at 88 percent oh wow up to 94
yeah i think the solar power fell so the grid tie power here draw so there's more load here and now
i can pump all of this excess power into line one and not have to dissipate anything so yeah that
worked right there it has a little bit of trouble you know when things are changing very quickly
yeah i just thought i'd show you that both loads working at the same time and trying to keep things
under control right now we've got negative on both sides so this guy jumped up that guy jumped up
oh there we hit a hundred this one probably jumped up a little bit i'll have to look back
on the video so this side is maxed out see that one bumped way up to help out this one
now this one should drop off because it's not maxed out again there it goes so there was my
assist mode so that works now they're both going to have to turn on again that'll go up there oh
this one hit 100 again so you can see this guy is maxed out and we've still got negative power here
so the load on line one is helping trying to use up that excess oh wow look at that yeah 13.
that is almost full power because i think 1340 is the rated output of the panels so that is
almost peak power this guy is peaked out and we're still getting 120 watts excess
so this guy is kicking in and keeping the house power at 13 watts that's the assist mode working
so anyway good we caught the assist mode working it seems like it kicks in when it's supposed to
and then it turns off when it's supposed to yeah i just thought i'd show you that
mode working i hadn't had a chance to test it but yeah with the crazy sun and clouds today we
got a chance to see it working for a little bit there so anyway hope you enjoyed that if you have
any questions post up in the comment section down below and as always thanks for watching
you