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John Muntanga asked

Virtual switch & false "Grid Lost" Alarm

Is there a way of the VRM indicating that AC is being ignored and prevent the "Grid Lost" Alarm when using VS? If Not, it would be useful to have this feature so that it is easy to monitor the grid for someone using VS to ignore the grid and prevent false "Grid Lost" Alarm.

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john-thorpe avatar image john-thorpe commented ·
With 50+ people following this question within 4 months of posting, it would be good if Victron could respond even if it's a "future release" response to acknowledge that there is nothing we can currently do to prevent this "false" alarm.


Anyone know how to  bump for Victron's attention?

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nickdb avatar image nickdb ♦♦ john-thorpe commented ·

A reminder that this is not a support forum, while some staff do comment here, that is not the purpose of the forum as per our guidelines.

The "following" is mostly automatic, it does not relate to people who have specifically chosen to follow a topic.

You are welcome to raise issues via your local distributor or sales manager, contacts on victron main site.

https://www.victronenergy.com/support

The system cannot differentiate between grid loss if it is intentional or not.

You can disable that alarm in the GX and try creating a manual one in VRM, that might be more suited.






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derrick thomas answered ·

Disable the vs in the multi and use node red on the gx to create a flow to do what you want. When ac in is ignored (switch position set to 'inverter') from within the gx it will not issue the grid lost alarm. You can also setup some dynamic inputs through node red dashboard for making changes on the fly.

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