I have a weird usage reading as of today.
Nobody has been even remotely to the service panel, nothing was opened or even a breaker flipped.
While looking at today’s production I see weird usage numbers.
The usage suddenly seems to go to 3600+ watts. I know what my users are and certainly nothing is drawing this much and it ends up in the “other” classification.
First I switched off all solar ( i have both micro inverters & string inverter) and looked at the meter and compared with sense: They were in sync and both indicated about 200 watt was used.
Switched Solar back on in 2 steps, first the micro inverters, 1 minute later the string inverter.
After the 5 minute mandatory delay micro inverters came back online and usage still the same.
One minute later the string inverter came online and right away the virtual usage started appearing again.
These were made seconds after each other:
Screenshot Sense:
Anyone any idea where to start debugging this?
Only thing I can think of is the main CT’s are opened, but they are at the top of service panel and the solar CT’s are at the bottom. doesn’t like they could interfere with each other.
Afaik we did not have a quake that might have moved the CT('s)
I came here precisely because I too had a very similar incident today - usage readings suddenly went negative while solar had a surprisingly low production day despite high sun and cool temperatures.
It’s almost as though the power calculations were off by 2 kW or so for much of the day.
Things appear to be back to normal basically as of the time I opened my mobile app.
The script that was posted here to read the Sense unit:
Date/Time: 2022/05/29 14:38:15 Power Being Used: 2924 watts, Power Being Generated: 11298 watts, net production 8374 watts
Date/Time: 2022/05/29 14:39:20 Power Being Used: 2823 watts, Power Being Generated: 11291 watts, net production 8468 watts
Date/Time: 2022/05/29 14:40:25 Power Being Used: 2863 watts, Power Being Generated: 11237 watts, net production 8374 watts
Date/Time: 2022/05/29 14:41:30 Power Being Used: 3039 watts, Power Being Generated: 11256 watts, net production 8217 watts
Reading what my meter shows through the zigbee connected HAN device:
I did not powercyle the sense unit, or even touched the breaker box.
Imo this is a software issue, not a hardware.
Update
I compared sense data with my utility company data.
Saturday (when I did not have an issue)
Sense:
to grid: 46.1 kWh
from grid: 10.2 kWh
Utility company:
to grid: 46.29
from grid: 10.13
to grid: 3% difference
from grid: 1% difference
That is close enough imo
Now Sunday when I had the phantom load:
Sense:
to grid: 50.3 kWh
from grid: 8.1 kWh
Utility company:
to grid: 59.4 kWh
from grid: 8.97 kWh
to grid: 18% difference
from grid: 10% difference
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Will install when it arrives and give an update.
Good to read it was caught in early stage and that they have a solution already.
Out of curiosity, do you know why in the every few mins we have that line every few mins in the solar line… mostly noticeable in the initial climb in the mornings. On the meter it looks like its dropping 250w for a second every 3 mins .
I have a real weird setup:
Enphase micro inverters (DL380,M190,M215,M250)
Sunnyboy 2500HF string inverter
Sunnyboy SB7700-21-US string inverter
Fronius 3800 string inverter.
I have monitoring on the fronius & enphase but not in the SB’s.
I have to assume one of them is re-calibrating the MPPT at that point.
But it is weird
