Hi, all. I have..
2x Fox 5kWH batteries
7kW peak in PV panels; facing East
Fox 7kW inverter
I have been trying everything I know to setup a summertime regime whereby the sun comes up at 5-6am, batteries are fully charged by 7am and are thereafter just exporting all surplus to the grid. I'm on Octopus so between 4pm and 7pm I can export at peak rate. However, the sun is in the West then and my generation is low. Knowing that at 7am the following day the sun will be charging the battery again with vigour, I want to be able to set the system to force export/feed-in from 16:00 - 19:00 down to about 50% battery to get me through the night.
Despite all of my best efforts using the FOX Cloud 2.0 mobile app and/or the FOX ESS Cloud website, the system still fails to export and keeps the battery at 100% into the evening.
The settings I setup in Mode Scheduler (says 'Enable' are:
- Start = 16:00
- End = 19:00
- Work Mode = Force Discharge
- Min SOC on grid = 50%
- Max SoC = 100%
- Forced discharge cutoff soc = 50%
- MAX C power for forced discharge = 500W
It saves OK and has the enabled switch on green, but it just ignores this and when 16:00 comes around the following day it stays at 100% battery.
Can anyone advise, please? Have I got any of these settings wrong? MY installer has done a firmware update but has since gone silent.
Many thanks in advance.