Problem with 600W grid tie inverter

[Sunking]

You got what you paid for, a piece of junk that is illegal to use. I hope you do not have a SMART ELECTRIC meter and ever spun it backwards. If you did the Power Company will detect you illegal connection and will sick the dogs on you. They wiull make you pay big bucks to get reconected and may even file charges against you for Fraud and Theft.

[inetdog]

Hi, I happen to have three 195W solar panels connected to a 600W grid tie inverter (the cheap ones from China).
It works fine reaching maximums, for a couple of hours, of 340W flowing to my meter. The problem is that the inverter shutsdown by itself randomly showing 0.1 or 0.2 Watts output on the separate monitor I put before the plug outlet.
Then I proceed to reset de inverter and it works OK again.
I don`t know if it is a normal safety measure due to overheating, or is the separate monitor (haven`t tried with a different one yet) or something else.
I´d appreciate some feedback from anybody with further knowledge on this matter. Thank you.

The main advice you will get here is not to use one, since they are illegal and unsafe. The shutdown may be the result of a trip of the anti-islanding circuitry rather than an overload. That is not something to play around with, and is one of many weak points of the plug-in GTIs, since they have not undergone any formal testing.

[cbarkerb]

Hi, I happen to have three 195W solar panels connected to a 600W grid tie inverter (the cheap ones from China).
It works fine reaching maximums, for a couple of hours, of 340W flowing to my meter. The problem is that the inverter shutsdown by itself randomly showing 0.1 or 0.2 Watts output on the separate monitor I put before the plug outlet.
Then I proceed to reset de inverter and it works OK again.
I don`t know if it is a normal safety measure due to overheating, or is the separate monitor (haven`t tried with a different one yet) or something else.
I´d appreciate some feedback from anybody with further knowledge on this matter. Thank you.