Mastervolt Soladin 600 - Small Grid Tie Inverter

Mastervolt Soladin 600 : This is the grid tie inverter I choose for my solar project; It seams to be a reliable GTI (ingeneered in the NL), easy to use, just plug & play with 2 MC4 solar connectors and a 220V plug.

Small PV system GTI:

Input (DC):  
  Nominal power @25 °C: 550W
  PV power range: 160-700 Wp
  MPP voltage range: 45-125V DC
  Maximum voltage: 155V DC
  MPP current: 8A
  MPP tracker: dynamic MPP tracker
  Start-up power:  1W DC @ 45V DC

It gives a lot of feedback on what it is doing, with just with 2 LEDs (yellow and red) blinking or in solid state. It is also small and pretty lite with only 2 kg (a SMA 3000W inverter weights 32 kg !)

I got it from a MasterVolt official dealer, in France, on this website, for 370 EUR back in july 2011: 

http://www.kitenergie.com/soladin-600-p-32.html 

I will get another one for my two arrays of Uni-Solar PVs.

Full documentation here: http://www.mysolarshop.co.uk/pdf/ManualSoladin600_080331ALL.pdf 

Box:

Key figures:

Lower back view: 

Side view:

Rather small, about the same size as the Chinese GTI used for my LiFePO4 Battery Bank Storage System:

User manual first page with drawing/diagram:

DC MC4 Solar connectors:

LiFePO4 Energy Storage device

This vidéo was shot at the beginning of my work on this system

Now this is what it looks like, after removal of another BMS, use of more powerful grid tie inverter (500 W) and use a of programmable dual relay volt-meter

This morning, I will shoot a video about the discharging step, where energy in the battery bank will be used to feed electricity to my home system, at a steady pace, reducing my use from the grid

I will go into details and the steps later on

To be continued...