It took a few years of learning, planning and permitting, but in the end, I have the system officially deployed! It took a few weeks for me to get everything configured and tuned the way I like. One of the major selling points for choosing Victron components was the ability to integrate the system with Home Assistant as well. I was able to build a nice dashboard and created automations to change the minimum battery state of charge based off of weather conditions (it charges the battery to 90% if bad weather is detected).
The question I get asked the most is “why 8 inverters?”. It’s because they are backing a 200 amp panel so I wanted each line to be able to pass through the full 200 amps in order not to “derate” the panel and the other reason is that the 3000VA models are the only ones that are currently UL listed (which was required for my permits).
Everything is running great and I couldn’t be happier. Looking forward to phase II… the quest for more power.
Nice setup, congrats!
Have you considered using an external LOM device, like the Ziehl UFR1002IP? This could serve as your anti-islanding protection device, meaning the Victron system wouldn’t need to be listed.
Thank you for the input. I haven’t looked in to it in the past but I’ll definitely take a closer look. I’m researching external grid meters now so I can monitor the whole home’s power consumption from the grid and not just what is being covered by the inverters.
