Remotely diagnosing a SolarEdge 5000H inverter

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  • Ampster
    Solar Fanatic
    • Jun 2017
    • 3649

    Remotely diagnosing a SolarEdge 5000H inverter

    I have a SolarEdge 5000H which I installed in 2018 to replace a dead Xantrex. It is installed on the south facing roof of an investment property in Southern California and has recently stopped producing power. I have checked the AC line frequency and it is within 1/10 of a Hz from 60 Hz and the voltage varies by no more than 1 Volt from 238 Volts.

    Are there any other diagnostics I can do or need to do before I call SolarEdge?
    EDIT: On 11/30 I observed AC grid Voltage at 236.8 Volts.
    Last edited by Ampster; 11-23-2019, 07:30 PM. Reason: Update AC Voltage observation.
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  • Mike90250
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    • May 2009
    • 16020

    #2
    Power cycle it at night, leave the DC off, and turn the DC back on mid morning.
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    • Ampster
      Solar Fanatic
      • Jun 2017
      • 3649

      #3
      Originally posted by Mike90250
      Power cycle it at night, leave the DC off, and turn the DC back on mid morning.
      Thanks, that is what I will do when I am down in LA after Thanksgiving. I was hoping to find a remote way to do that.
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      • Ampster
        Solar Fanatic
        • Jun 2017
        • 3649

        #4
        I finally got to that site and tried a reboot. No luck. The screen showed a fault as did the monitoring software. I logged on to the support page, sent a picture of the fault code from the screen and got an RMA. I will have to return to swap out the inverter when the new inverter arrives.
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        • Ampster
          Solar Fanatic
          • Jun 2017
          • 3649

          #5
          The inverter was shipped in a few days but it took me a week before I could schedule a trip back to Southern California. Got the inverter installed and commissioned with SetApp.

          Ironically it showed what I thought was the same fault as the original inverter. I compared notes and did some research and discovered it was an isolation fault which generally was caused by a bad ground. The error numbers are somewhat similar. I fixed that and the inverter powered up. I didnt have my laptop with me and couldn't find a way to set up monitoring through the phone app but the SetApp program said it had an Internet connection. When I got back to my laptop I got it set up and within an hour it showed up on the monitoring site.

          The new screenless inverter has different mounting bracket and more cooling fins so it probably has better cooling. It also may have a more robust fault detection. My old inverter was almost two years old.
          Last edited by Ampster; 12-16-2019, 12:01 PM.
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