RS6000 AC charging

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Does the RS6000 have an onboard charger for charging from the Grid?

  • The pdf i downloaded only talks about AC coupled solar charging powe of 88amps at 57.5v

This would seem to indicate there is no charging from grid power - yet reading around I have seen reference to the RS6000 charging from Grid.

I have MPII’s and was going to put these in parallel but the issue there is if one unit in the pair goes down both go offfline. Not good for redundancy.

I read that the RS6000 units in parallel allow one unit to go off line and the other carries on inverting - just less capacity compared to 2 x RS6000’s in parallel - this is far better as it does give redundancy.

The issue is I need DVCC and for that to work I have to use a victron charger - so need the inverter/charger combo for this. - this is for charging from grid power. (or a charger/charger device that has DVCC onboard - such as the wakespeed WS500 - but I am not charging from an alternator)

So if the RS6000 does not charge from the grid (and thats how it sounds from the PDF) this would not work for me and I am stuck with the MPII’s

so bottom line - can the RS6000 charge from grid power like the MPII does ?

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No, it does not.

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What do you mean by RS6000?

The first two don’t have an AC-IN connection, so they can’t charge from grid, obviously. But they can be parallelized.
The last one, as it has an AC-IN, it can charge from grid power. But this can’t be parallelized.

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The PDF for the inverter I am referring to calls it RS 48/6000 Smart. Thanks for the information.

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Then it must be Inverter RS Smart, that’s a simple bidirectional inverter, because the same PDF states: “The batteries can be charged by solar if an AC PV grid inverter is connected (to) the AC output.”

By PV grid inverter it means a device that converts PV energy to AC to be directly injected into grid.
Only that in this case the PV grid inverter will inject into the RS’s generated “grid”.