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Thank you for your patience, Dave. I had failed to look closely at Peeshow's diagram and spot it is TT rather than TN-C-S ! I quite get your point and for me (who has older TN-S) I will need a 4pole version of the ATS, which as I look online is also available in similar units. I will continue my pla...

Hi Guys - I found this post very helpful in pinning down the issues for my plans to implement EPS. I may be being dumb but is there a flaw to using an existing low cost solution in the form of 3pole ATSs being offered from China etc e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315276963374 Can't 2 poles be used ...

Hi David and Calum, My garage is 50m from the CU in the house and has its own sufficient supply with a local CU. I foresaw the same problem and checked the max distance to hardwire a CT, which I think is v. long and certainly my setup works well with the inverter close to the garage CU and connected...

Thank you for the confirmation, Calum. I do now have a working RS485 connection and aim to take the plunge into the intricacies of HA soon.
I guess I was hoping for the odd simple command on the RS 485 port to save myself dealing with the rest.

Kind Regards

Hi Phil Can you provide details of your equipment and how long since installlation ? If possible, can you confirm the firmware release in your inverter and your battery management system (BMS). They are at the bottom of the list in your Version details which is the 4th option (tab) on your device pa...

Hi there, for about the last week there has been a bug in the web based app which is annoying and I hope someone can point me in the right direction to get it fixed. It is the switch offered to allow the work mode to be changed remotely from "Self Use" to "Feed-in". It used to be...

I needed help twice back in December after an installation in Nov by an installer who couln't answer any of my queries (mostly caused by low temperatures whose effects my installer didn't understand). Each time I phoned the main FoxESS no. and was advised I'd get a call back from a technician, which...

Just to add my thoughts on Octopus Flux having been on it since mid March - I have a similar system to aardnebby but a bit bigger: a) there are clearly more choices to make on a daily basis, esp if the time of day of our consumption varies, and in the summer it will be very different from wintertime...

It seems back up on the web portal now. I can see everything in real time (well every 5 mins). A

The web based portal seems down too though it is still reporting yield but nothing more. Will report when it comes back to life.
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Hi Mark, The work mode can be set laboriously on the inverter panel - see Will's good Youtube presentation on all the settings. I use the web-based access to the cloud server and it is easy, once you find an odd little blue icon on the bottom right of the Inverter mimic in the Energy Flow diagram. T...

Hi You are asking a question about plumbing and I can share what I know of the options - there are various ones and you may need good advice for your home depending on whether you are trying to reduce your carbon footprint or get better payback on your excess energy. Pressurised direct hot water tan...

This query seems to be popping up in various posts. For example in: https://foxesscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?t=288 My reply then was: Sat May 13, 2023 10:02 am Hi All, Unless I have it wrong, there are 2 aspects to this question. Currently, I can stop the solar PV being used to charge the battery d...

Dave Foster addressed this problem last month (Apr 20th) in a series of posts about cabling up for RS485 which is on the same connector on the H1 inverters. Here's a link to the thread but you'll need to scroll down to around Apr 20th. https://foxesscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?p=1016 Make sure you c...

Hi All, Unless I have it wrong, there are 2 aspects to this question. Currently, I can stop the solar PV being used to charge the battery during peak Flux hours in the afternoon by selecting the "Feedin" option on the website control, and indeed it uses the same password as for the website...

You are a hero, Dave - yes, your suggestion works as evidenced below ! I have learnt a great deal and reassured that I am on the right track. Hopefully, others can benefit too. Many many thanks; I am one big step forward to a decent HA monitoring system. Alan. D:\DDownloads\modpoll\win>modpoll.exe -...

Hi Steve, I have done something similar to you, though only adding one battery - otherwise I have limited knowledge. I can confirm that the run LED on my batteries were not exactly together nor in sequence. They each seemed to be on for about 1sec and then off for about 1sec, to the same periodic be...

Thank you very much, Dave, for your persistence on this one. I have tried your query string and then with a count of 1, both of which elicited the same response. So you can see the version of modpoll and all the rest, here is the precise exchange: ….\modpoll\win>modpoll.exe -m tcp -p 502 -a 247 -t 3...

Yes, Dave. Thanks for the feedback - it encourages me that I am on the right track. I have double checked the IP address - it also pings correctly across the network and I also did a separate check of asking modpoll.exe to poll an IP address either side of the inverter's and got an "unreachable...

Hi Peter and Dave Thank you both for the very illuminating reports because the last few posts are of great interest as they reflect just where where I am at progressing my HA implementation. I get exactly the same response from my inverter as Peter to the modpoll.exe checks with an FC4 request and w...

Dear Calum & Dave Thank you for the detailed clarification, esp how the DCHP option is needed for a wired in ethernet for modbus. Hopefully this will help others as well as myself to make use of the networking possibilities as I go forward, esp when far from the house Wifi or setting up HA etc. ...

Thank you, Calum I could see just about everywhere is silent on the question so I did wonder. Strange to call the port "ethernet" but not use it for conventional wired networks. I note too that the settings menu has "Ethernet" but the only option I see is "DHCP" which a...

I have been trying to find out how I can change my present Wifi link to the Fox cloud to a wired ethernet. My reason is that my system being 50m from the house used an extra router to reach it with Wifi and it has proved unreliable. I now have a wired arrangement to get close to the inverter but I c...

Here's a challenging question if anyone knows the answer ! My installer, it now turns out, picked up 2x MIRA 25s for my install last year in place of the HV2600s, he had quoted. He's now offering to replace the 2 batteries and the BMS or give me an extra MIRA 25 because I was concerned about my poor...

Understood and thanks for the clarification. Very interesting to know the battery chemistry is not as mature as that in most EVs. I will indeed look for some bedtime reading as you suggest and watch what develops as the weather warms up ! Your input is very much appreciated and I hope Fox can soon r...