Hello, first big boat trip with my new Victron Config/installation on my 55’ motor yacht. This morning I received an Alert via email about an overload on one of my MPII Inverters. The Alert cleared after 20 seconds and I suspect it was a spike/load from my wife using the Microwave, toaster oven, and coffee maker at the same time. Problem is the Alert contains very little detail. Is there any way to get more detail in the Alerts?
Overview pic of the components in my system, Alert originated from Cerbo regarding my first MPII
Alert came via Email which I didn’t see until an hour later:
Cleared after 20 seconds:
My MPII’s are 5KW and are configured as an out of phase pair, each generating 120VAC 180 degree’s out of phase. We could use them for 240VAC but we only run 120V loads on a pair of 5KW Inverters so it’s hard to believe we were pulling more than 5KW on one inverter but without detail about how big the Overload on L1 was I’m left wondering how big was the OVERLOAD? Would love to know what was the load on L2 when this Alert occurred. I have seen spikes to 4KW with the Microwave and coffee maker on. Similarly the Coffee maker and Toaster oven are on the same 15amp breaker so if we are brewing coffee and toasting a bagel the breaker trips.
I logged into VRM thinking there must be more details there but this is a perfect example of my Ask how do we get more details in the Alerts. Notice these two Alerts don’t tell you anything about what caused the Alert to be triggered. How big was the Overload that was detected and for the Alert two weeks ago what was the SOC that caused that Alert?
Before submitting this new Topic it occurred to me VRM might have a graph of the Overload but 1500Watt Spike at 7:57 shouldn’t be enough IMO to trigger an Alarm, Battery SOC was 65% and Voltage dropped to 26VDC but that’s all healthy levels…
Scott on M/V Mariah on the way to the Bahamas…
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