New Release: Sunny Island 6.0H / 8.0H Now Even Faster To Battery Operation

One of the SI – 8.0H-11 inverters in the extension cluster was leaking black epoxy residue onto the floor through fan, and inverter did not go into shutdown mode due to overheating?

hello we have sunny island 3 phase multicluster system how to set country standard to island mode 60hz in ongrid setup. because our utility grid have a frequency of 60hz.

Hi SMA I just installed a single phase SI 6.0H-13 a month ago using a 48V Lithium-ion battery system(BYD) together with a Sunny Boy 5.0 the system works well when set on mains only and here it can synchronise the generator power when the utility grid is off and when set to Generator only, it can synchronise both Mains and generator power during the day but at night it can only synchronise generator not utility grid and on this setting it causes a tamper on the utility nergy meter and this tamper has so far occured 3times in a space of 26days from the day of installation and when the Sunny Island is set to Mains and Generator, it cannot synchronise any of the AC sources.
Please help me out!
Thanks

Hi SMA, I have used your sunny 8-12 islands for 3 years now, they are well built, and reliable machines, albeit, sometimes need alot of decrypting of the instruction manual, that can be a little over the heads of most lay-man.

As some of us can’t afford to buy genuine battery packs constructed by major suppliers, we have to construct our own “moonshine” equivalents, and use third party controllers to charge and discharge our batteries, will SMA be working with the larger suppliers of these controllers in the future such as REC or Batrium, or even design your own 3 party controller?

I have installed my own system, and have used both REC and Batrium lithium controllers and have documented them both on my youtube channel, as there is such little information on how to make them work and which is more suited, i thought i would help people who have invested a lot of money and time into making this work, that sometimes all that is required is a little help.

My hope is that if people, arrive here at this post looking for information on 3rd party controllers they may be able to get more information, after looking on youtube.

“Status: Warning / Ext grid disconnect due to overvoltage at phase L1 / none”
This error is coming up on an Off Grid System with Manual Generator start.
It is a Sunny Island 6.0 – H11 with Sunny Boy AV40 5kW. Batteries are 6 x BYD B-box.
Any suggestions to remove the error?

Yes I want to Join.

Hello SMA!

My location is the United States. I currently have a grid tied system of 19.2kWDC panels connected to two SunnyBoy 6000-US and one Sunny Boy 4000-US. Each of these Sunny Boys currently has a bluetooth piggyback card installed.
I’d like to install two of the Sunny Island 6048-US in a split phase configuration with an approved battery to give me off-grid power in the event the grid goes down. Does the Sunny Island control the older Sunny Boys via frequency shifting only, or do I need to purchase an SMA RS485 piggyback card for each inverter, replacing the bluetooth piggyback cards? Is there additional SMA hardware I’d need for this type of install?
Regards,
Ryan

The firmware on the link above for “Sunny Island 6.0H / 8.0H Now Even Faster To Battery Operation” is not also available as the link is not leading anywhere.

Hej I have four sunny island and four APU with 40 battry van i konet them there face??

I have one STP25 AND 3 SI 8.0-12When battery reaches 95% SOC,SI disconnects and enters reset mode

I have sma sunny island 8. Instead of generator can i have my AC grid connected. So if i lose solar and battrey it connects to AC grid.

I have a 3 phase, single cluster system with three SI 8.0H-11. one one device s is bad, can I replace just the bad one with SI 8.0H-12?

When is the next firmware release date for the Sunny Island 4.4m-12 that’s support UK grid connection? G98 /G99? I have a brand new inverter sat gathering dust powered off pending UK firmware. Any feedback welcomed.

I have Sunny Island 8.0H with a Honda EU70IS Generator on current control
Mode i can’t run the generator over the maximum amp 20 amp ( I can’t draw 20 amp from the generator and power from battery at some time if need the system will just blackout of 5sec, it very hard to get the sunny island to run well with generator, the Sunny Island can easily run all the loads by itself 6000w+ and Sunny Boy is also working fine. So why can the Sunny Island, Sunny Boy and Generator all work at same time and take 5kw from Generator 2-3kw Sunny Boy and 1-3kw from Sunny Island battery if need like the Victron inverter Quattro (power assist) as if I have the generator on I can’t run the induction cooker, But it runs fine with generator off. On the Sunny Island and Sunny Boy

Reverse power to generator is off as are still waiting for a answer from Honda
Reactive power compensation is also off, would it help if it was on?

Also I has lost the generator icon in the main screen

Firmware 1.3.1R

How to set the SI 8.0 to charge from the grid?

These are lithium batteries, full charge 100% soc would be 58.7 v, this is the correct set voltage as indicated when the gen set is on. When the gen set is off, and normal charge is happening from sunny boys the sunny island defaults to 57.7 volts for charging, which will only give an 88% soc.

I’ve seen in the parameter list there is settings for the bms, but i cannot see these parameters in the sunny island web user interface.

I have 2 sunny island 8 both on the new firmware. I am off grid with only a generator. I can do a full charge 100% (58.24 volts) with the generator but am unable to do a full charge using solar only. When charging from solar only, at best i will only get 88%, as the charging voltage is too low to achive a full charge (57.7 volts). I have had this system installed now for 8 months. I am using lithium batteries and REC bms. Can the sunny island achive a full charge off grid, connected to lithium batteries, without using the generator??