Suggestion - Display Actual Power Production Vs Draw
Good day
My system consists of 2 x 8kw Inverters fed by 24 x 555w PV Panels (13.32kw of installed capacity) and 2 x Weco Batteries.
So this is what is happening at the moment ... as it is just after midday with pretty much sunny skies outside, I'm certain that the PV panels are producing a lot more then 1455w!
As far as possible, I want to heat my swimming pool using only free power from the PV panels and not power from the grid.
In order to control the pool heater, I intend to install a smart switch as I have done on both my geysers so that I can manage things from my phone.
From my understanding, if I want to check whether the PV panels are producting enough power at any point to run the pool heater in addition to the current load, I would have to turn the pool heater on and then check the load once the App has updated the Power Flow information.
However, this could take a few minutes to be updated on the App in which time I might have got busy with work and forget to check!
It would be very helpful if the Actual Power Production was also displayed on the Power Flow chart as I could then make a quick decision to turn the pool heater on or not!
In addition to this, it would also be great if the app had the functionality to notify me if Power Production drops below a certail level as I could then turn the pool heater off so as not to drain my batteries.
Maybe there are other suggestions as to how this could be done.
It looks like you have set tour system to zero export so the excess PV cannot be exported to the grid and as you battery is almost full, the inverter MPPT controller has throttled back the power generated from PV to limit the PV power generated to the charge the battery and supply the load.