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I have a nearly identical installation, but with PointGuard instead of Franklin. Here are a few comments: To solve my issue I removed the ground connection at the pin of the generator cable inlet box as that is easier than taking a cable apart. Therefore my entire house is grounded through...

I understand exactly what you are doing. Where are you connecting the micro-inverter into the home system? Just a breaker on your main (or critical loads) panel? Wouldn't a 240V inverter be a lot better?

1) Pro power has nothing to do with EV charging. It is a Vehicle to load inverter. You can hook the Pro Power 30A outlet to the generator inlet of the Solark, but it is a one way transfer (from truck to Sol-ark). 2) The Ford Charge Station Pro can not be used with the Sol Ark generator inlet...

I think it may be admin and for the password the serial number of the unit.

Here is what I think is the correct Modbus register map. It is linked directly from the Blue 80 user manual.

There are other systems that you can use with your truck, but not necessarily the Charge Station Pro. For what its worth, the Ford/Sunrun system does work and is supported, but it is not necessarily for the faint of heart to do so, and does work better for the DIY electrical inclined. I would...

This data is going to have different formats for different register values. Here is a document which I believe is the valid modbus register mapping. It seems to match up with your testing. Note that you are starting at 0 and they are starting at 1, so there is an offset you need to account for.

Glad you have your system working and it is a great write up. Unfortunately it really belongs in its own thread or tied to a similar thread. This setup will not work with the Franklin whole home backup battery (or other hybrid inverter systems like PointGuard and SolArk) because the generator...

Yes I believe it can. I have never tried it as I use only self consumption based on time of use but it does have an export mode for utilities that will pay you for exported power.

The Bluetooth change is from a firmware update of the FCSP a couple months ago, not the 10.3 software. I did not have to redo mine in 10.3 but mine was already set to FordChargeStaionPro1 from when I reset it back in March/April. That being said I think there is something in this update...

I purchased the equipment through Sunrgy which is local for me. I was able to pick it up with the truck. Let me know if you need a specific contact for them.

I would turn the truck on for like 6 hours to let it charge the LVB battery. I assume you got the sensor recall done already long ago? The truck only charges the LVB when it is on, or is actively charging the HVB. i had good success on the past just leaving it on for hours and hours with the...

Before resetting everything, I would verify that the app is actually getting proper updates from the truck (or that the truck is updating the cloud server properly). I would turn the truck on, and make sure the appropriate icons (usually wifi symbol and up/down arrow symbol) are on then just...

Was your charge cable plugged in when the update occurred? I didn’t lose any settings but I did the update manually before I plugged in to charge.

I just received this update this evening.

The main issue is that this is a hybrid battery/solar inverter and associated automatic transfer switch. There is no option for a switching neutral transfer. They are always going to be using the home's bonded neutral. The generator is feeding the transfer switch and battery inverter and...

I did mine as shown in the marked up picture. I simply removed the ground wire jumper (circled in yellow) from the socket. I still left the other jumper that connects the front plate to the box. I then connected the home ground to the box ground (marked in green with arrow). This allows the...

I think on the Reliance PB50, the ground it on the outside shell of the connector rather than a pin. You can see it in the picture. I would check that the cable has that ground connection (which I am sure it does if it trips). I still maintain that it is likely that the ground wire shown in...

Not sure where you are getting that price from. It is not cheap, but it is way less than that amount. $6300 would get you all of the PointGuard components + V2X module. That would get you a whole home backup system. The PG load hub is like having a 6 port SPAN panel as well as the 200A auto...

The PointGuard components were just shy of $10k most of which is the batteries. The backup panel, extra breakers, generator inlet components and wire/conduit added about $1k more. It was DIY so no labor cost. I will get $3k back from the federal tax credit, and am also on a time of use plan...