Wife shut off breaker to the solaredge 5000h box

[Mike90250]

And just deal with the wife, smile and buy replacement gear.
Lost a bunch of garden hose fitting and manifolds last night, wife left stuff connected with out draining, easily > $300 in parts to replace. "that plastic is no good, use metal" Right. +25K PSI when water freezes, and the pot metal stuff and brass manifolds are going to survive that....

[Ramair428cjxr7]

Yeah butt the replacement box is 1200.00 not 300.00 small difference

[Ramair428cjxr7]

Doesn't matter it can always be worse

[ButchDeal]

There is 2 disconnects the one connected to the inverter box and one outside I have a multi tester what do I put the red probe in and what do I set dail at I told ya I'm GREEN

There are three disconnects but only one DC disconnect and at least two Ac discconects, one being the breaker


if you do not know then i suggest you put the cover back on before you start a fire.

[foo1bar]

I was just trying to find out what people with more experience think about the inverter box being ruined just because the breaker was flipped and correct start up procedure was not followed .

Flipping a breaker off then back on is going to be like a power outage as far as what the inverter sees.
I would expect any commercial inverter to handle power outages without failing. Even if they're short like flipping a breaker on and off (which isn't that short really - probably 0.5 seconds or longer,)

Let us know how it goes with the installer today. My guess is you have a breaker still off (or tripped) and not turned back on. Or could be that you have some other switch/disconnect that you flipped.
Since you don't know much about electricity, you probably should not open anything up.

[foo1bar]

Lost a bunch of garden hose fitting and manifolds last night, wife left stuff connected with out draining, easily > $300 in parts to replace. "that plastic is no good, use metal" Right. +25K PSI when water freezes, and the pot metal stuff and brass manifolds are going to survive that....

Use more hoses so there's space for it to expand into rather than building up (as much) pressure?
Or bury things below frost level and use a yard hydrant. (or multiple yard hydrants)
Or move to where it doesn't get that cold for long enough to freeze through.

[Ramair428cjxr7]

I ended up pulling the breaker ,The installer must have jambed it in there because the one of the two tangs that are supposed to grab bar was smashed so the breaker was only making contact by pressure .When she flipped it must have broke connection .when I pulled main fuse box cover off the breaker was not as Tite as it should have been . 8.98 GE 35 amp dbl pole breaker running fine .
Thanks for all the help and opinions Butch Allen

[foo1bar]

I ended up pulling the breaker ,The installer must have jambed it in there because the one of the two tangs that are supposed to grab bar was smashed so the breaker was only making contact by pressure .When she flipped it must have broke connection .when I pulled main fuse box cover off the breaker was not as Tite as it should have been . 8.98 GE 35 amp dbl pole breaker running fine .
Thanks for all the help and opinions Butch Allen

So you replaced the breaker and all is working again?
Was there any damage to the main panel bar?
Is your panel a GE panel (or marked as accepting GE breakers?)
Or at the very least, is the breaker you removed the same model as what you replaced it with?

[Ramair428cjxr7]

Exact same breaker

[Ramair428cjxr7]

I think they used an existing breaker just didn't put it in right

[Ramair428cjxr7]

It did not look new system vwas installed in March of this year

[Ramair428cjxr7]

I was hoping that the inverter box was not that critical to switching power on and off ,I do realize there is a procedure and it's like that for a reason .