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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon vincentwolsink

Production switch

Open Ayuus opened this issue 11 months ago • 11 comments

Describe the bug

Production switch seems to work fine in integration. However, after switching production on again (more than 1 hour after switching off, during daylight), production does not resume, even after several hours. Switch is in state ON, but no power anymore. However, next day, production starts normally again.

Account type

  • [ ] Installer

Envoy

  • [ ] Metered without CTs

  • FW version: D7.6.175

  • Amount of micro inverters connected: 17

Home Assistant

  • Version: 2024.3

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Ayuus avatar Mar 13 '24 15:03 Ayuus

Same issue! This might be a Enphase issue though...

https://support.enphase.com/s/question/0D53m00009JkKntCAF/when-i-disable-and-later-enable-power-production-through-the-envoy-installer-web-interface-the-microinverters-only-start-producing-power-the-next-morning-instead-of-right-away-why-is-that-and-is-there-any-way-to-make-them-immediately-produce-power

erjonkers avatar Mar 13 '24 15:03 erjonkers

Hi, this is an known Enphase issue unfortunately. Nothing I can do about that in this integration.

vincentwolsink avatar Mar 13 '24 16:03 vincentwolsink

Thanks a lot Vincent, would you by any chance know what Enphase has shared about the issue and resolution timeline...?

Can't find it anywhere..

erjonkers avatar Mar 13 '24 16:03 erjonkers

@erjonkers I don't. I find Enphase support quite disappointing in these cases. All they say is they communicated to the responsible department.

vincentwolsink avatar Mar 14 '24 07:03 vincentwolsink

Thanks Vincent, I've (re)raised the issue in the thread with Enphase I've shared above, hopefully we can get some intel on issue + fix timelines

erjonkers avatar Mar 14 '24 08:03 erjonkers

Hi Vincent, I saw you also chimed in on the thread with Enphase. Thanks for that, I'm sure the extra nudge has helped the case forward.

You wrote that you are able to restart production by triggering a 'manual AC power cycle'. Silly question but how would I do that? By switching of the breakers I guess? And which ones, would all of the solar panel breakers do the trick?

erjonkers avatar Mar 15 '24 20:03 erjonkers

Switching the breaker indeed. My Envoy and inverters are on the same one, but I assume it is about the inverters.

vincentwolsink avatar Mar 15 '24 22:03 vincentwolsink

maybe dissable this function till enphase fixed this problem?

kctje avatar Apr 03 '24 20:04 kctje

Hi @kctje, this function is not broken for everyone. I can add some documentation or something to the readme.

vincentwolsink avatar Apr 04 '24 07:04 vincentwolsink

Maybe thats a good option

Op do 4 apr 2024 om 09:29 schreef Vincent Wolsink @.***>

Hi @kctje https://github.com/kctje, this function is not broken for everyone. I can add some documentation or something to the readme.

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kctje avatar Apr 04 '24 11:04 kctje

Please note that resetting a breaker also does not always fix this issue. I have two installations and eventually (hours) flipped the breakers. Only a handful of micro's came back online on both installations. Next day, all is well. So I guess all we can do is wait on Enphase whereas SolarEdge nowadays even has the "negative pricing disable feature" fully integrated in their mobile app for users.

Kudos50 avatar May 15 '24 20:05 Kudos50

This week I got version D8.2.4264 on my Envoy-s metered without Current Transformers. Since then it seems that the production switch also enables production back on the same day. I just tested this on the end of the day and saw production dropping to 0 in around 10 minutes. After turning the switch back on, it also took another 10 minutes to get back on.

Tomorrow I will try this at the highest production point during the day. So far I did not want to try that out..

ranjowd avatar Aug 29 '24 17:08 ranjowd

Fixed here as well but it did require a firmware update to the Micro inverters (IQ7+). In fact, the new firmware on the envoy caused the production stop - start (next day start issue) to fail completely. Nothing happened. I was unable to update the inverters myself but a simple support ticket to Enphase did the trick. Update from 4.27.04 to 4.28.07.

Stop start for me is not 10mins as mentioned here. But more like 30mins stop en 50mins start. But that’s OK.

Kudos50 avatar Sep 16 '24 18:09 Kudos50