FoxESS Community - Owners & Installers Forum

Aah....thank you, I didn't know I had to input that. That looks better now, the battery says 62 % in Fox, with the Energy Stats showing 8.67kWh left (the battery is 13,980 Wh).

Thank you Dave for that information. Update: I have downloaded the app from the Google Play Store to my Android phone. The instructions in the app to "join" by getting the API doesn't seem to work for me. To get the API I had to do that on the PC and transfer the API manually to the phone. First ...

Thank you Dave, sorry but what is the Energy Stats app? Is that in the Fox app?

Not a big deal, but why does the app show the battery reserve in percentage? I would have thought it might be better to show that in kWh. Is that an option?

Perhaps there is a good reason it is shown that way?

Hello Dave, Thank you for the quick reply. I don't think I need an update at the moment, as my installer did that a few weeks ago. I just wondered if I could do it in the future, but if you say it comes with risks, then "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". It would be good to have some heads up about ...

Is it possible for me, as an end user, to get firmware updates for the Foxess inverter and batteries, or does the installer need to do this?

My installer has done this for me, but I don't get to know what these updates give me.

Thank you, I guess I was expecting too much of our PV system. On a good sunny day in July we were getting close to 5kWh at mid-day.

I am in the South East where it has been overcast for several days. I really don't know what to expect from a potential 5kW array on a dull day this time of year. I am on an Economy 7 tariff and so far, since the installation in May this year, I have only used the grid on the cheaper rate, using the ...

Thank you Dave, I didn't know that existed it was so greyed out. Here is todays graph. It looks a bit better than I first thought.

Silly question.....but how do you get that graph? Is it through the Fox ESS Cloud app? My app only seems to show a different graph.

I have only had the system a few months but I am disappointed with the PV output on a cloudy day. Should I expect it to be better? I have 12 Aiko panels (445 W each) with Tigo optimisers on two strings going to a Foxess Hi-5.0-E.G2 inverter and batteries. These PV panels are on a south facing garage ...

Thank you very much for your help. BTW, you have quite a battery capacity there. I might need more, but see how it goes with my first winter with PV.

Thank you Dave My installer fitted the extra slave battery today, it was the new EQS4800 and was fitted very quickly. No problems with the connections that I had concerns about. So I now have the EC4800 master, a EC4800 slave and a EQS4800 slave. The Fox phone app shows the total to be 13980wh, is ...

Thank you Dave. I have contacted Fox Customer Care and the response was that it was a marketing change (?) and the battery is compatible. There is a firmware change I am told. My installer, however, says that there is a change to the connectors. I will have to wait to see what my installer does and ...

I want another slave battery to add to the EC4800 Master and slave that I have.

I have been told that the ECS4800 slave has been replaced with the EQS4800, is that correct and what is different? Can the EQS4800 slave be added to my system?

Thank you.

I might have misunderstood what you have said, but I want the batteries to charge during the Economy 7 night period, but want other demand (like the washing machine) to only use the grid during the night, so I have a full battery in the morning.

I have Economy 7 with a cheaper rate at night. I have set the battery to charge during that period, but can I also set the battery not to be used during those hours? For example if I set the washing machine to be used overnight, I want that to be taken from the grid, not the battery, so I have a ...

Well at the moment, at the end of the day, the batttery (9kW) is usually down to about 30%. Although we have 12 panels on a south facing roof, the weather has not been that sunny for a week or so. The battery is at 100% by the afternoon though. For example now at around 6.30 pm, the battery is at 76 ...

Hi Dave,

Thank you very much for the reply. I am not very technical, so rely on advice of others.....like you and my installer.

It's not the inverter, it's the battery pack size. The inverter has a maximum charge/discharge current of 40A, the 2 batteries you have ECS4800-H2 has a nominal voltage of 89.6V and so the max power it can charge / discharge at is 40 * 89.6 = 3,584W If you add another battery to take it to an ...

Thank you for the help.

My installer has previously said that if I wanted another battery it would cost about £1800 including installation. Does that sound about right?

Thank you for explaining it so well. My installer never mentioned that limitation.

I have the space for two more batteries. Would adding two make the system more efficient, or just add the one to get a higher output when the load is high?

I have recently had 12 PV panels installed (Aiko 445W), a Fox Hi-5-E G2 inverter and two Fox 4800 batteries (nominally 9.32kW). The other evening I noticed that the load was around 6kW, the battery was only giving 3.5kW and the rest taken from the grid. With the inverter of that size, I expected ...

Thanks Dave,

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but are you saying that what the installer has fitted is wrong and that is why I get that error code?

Stll hoping that the installer can get the system working using a LoRA link.