Cor van Houtum
21st March 2020, 10:42
Hello Wind friends
As you maybe know is the production from wind inverters stopped from the brand Power-One.
This is a , or can be a major problem when your plant is equiped with this inverter and you loose it by defect.
Most wind inverters are the Aurora 6000 or the Aurora 3.6
The same inverters are still on the marked called PVI 3.6 or the PVI 6000
Lets say that becoming one of these would be mutch more easy because there are thousands manufactured.
But this inverter has a mppt made for solar and you cannot program a curve for a windturbine.
I found that this is partial true,
The PVI Aurora is the same hardware as what the wind version is,
Yes it has a switch for the DC and MC4 connectors but that is not important I think.
It is possible to change the setting in the solar inverter and use it for wind.
All the settings and the windtable will be there , and ready to program.
This is not a hoax , I managed to do this on a PVI3.6 and a PVI6000 in "wind switch"
Works like a charm , tested live with a blow up on customer site.
replaced with a PVI 6000 and worked like it always did , before it was in defect.
this helps !!
It is important to have a rs485 communications dongel to connect to the inverters port
the speed from the virtual windows port should be 19200 n 8 1
the port adres must be lower then com8
The inverter adres should be on 2
you can set this in the settings menu
to get in you need the password 0000
First install the aurora installer software on your computer
try to connect to the inverter
your rs485 to usb dongel has made a port in windows that you put on 19.200 speed (in windows)
The installer software must be setup to this port number Com #
The extended password is 05591 this is when you are having connection and to choose the menu
you must use this password later also when you want to set the power curve in windmode
just look around a little in this software to get familliar with it
if this all is working
then leave the installer software (complete close)
start up The vci software
in the right pane you can chose a windinverter
do this and it will change to windmode after restart
Then go back to the installer software where you will see that you have a extra option menu windtable
this should be filled with a couple of entry's otherwise the inverter gives an error empty table
After changing the inverter makes sure you bridge the input channels and put the switch on parallel mode
to connect your DC output from the turbine i suggest to make a splitter cable to double mc 4
use both channels from the inverter so you are not stessing only one mc4 connectors input and the dc switch
The input current from a windgenerator can be more then one mc4 pair can handle
all this is only possible with a working inverter with grid connected
so there should be a dc voltage higher then 130 volts on the bus
like 3 solarpanels in series
otherwise the inverter stays dead
goodluck
Power one sun inverter change to wind - YouTube
greetings
Cor
password 05591
As you maybe know is the production from wind inverters stopped from the brand Power-One.
This is a , or can be a major problem when your plant is equiped with this inverter and you loose it by defect.
Most wind inverters are the Aurora 6000 or the Aurora 3.6
The same inverters are still on the marked called PVI 3.6 or the PVI 6000
Lets say that becoming one of these would be mutch more easy because there are thousands manufactured.
But this inverter has a mppt made for solar and you cannot program a curve for a windturbine.
I found that this is partial true,
The PVI Aurora is the same hardware as what the wind version is,
Yes it has a switch for the DC and MC4 connectors but that is not important I think.
It is possible to change the setting in the solar inverter and use it for wind.
All the settings and the windtable will be there , and ready to program.
This is not a hoax , I managed to do this on a PVI3.6 and a PVI6000 in "wind switch"
Works like a charm , tested live with a blow up on customer site.
replaced with a PVI 6000 and worked like it always did , before it was in defect.
this helps !!
It is important to have a rs485 communications dongel to connect to the inverters port
the speed from the virtual windows port should be 19200 n 8 1
the port adres must be lower then com8
The inverter adres should be on 2
you can set this in the settings menu
to get in you need the password 0000
First install the aurora installer software on your computer
try to connect to the inverter
your rs485 to usb dongel has made a port in windows that you put on 19.200 speed (in windows)
The installer software must be setup to this port number Com #
The extended password is 05591 this is when you are having connection and to choose the menu
you must use this password later also when you want to set the power curve in windmode
just look around a little in this software to get familliar with it
if this all is working
then leave the installer software (complete close)
start up The vci software
in the right pane you can chose a windinverter
do this and it will change to windmode after restart
Then go back to the installer software where you will see that you have a extra option menu windtable
this should be filled with a couple of entry's otherwise the inverter gives an error empty table
After changing the inverter makes sure you bridge the input channels and put the switch on parallel mode
to connect your DC output from the turbine i suggest to make a splitter cable to double mc 4
use both channels from the inverter so you are not stessing only one mc4 connectors input and the dc switch
The input current from a windgenerator can be more then one mc4 pair can handle
all this is only possible with a working inverter with grid connected
so there should be a dc voltage higher then 130 volts on the bus
like 3 solarpanels in series
otherwise the inverter stays dead
goodluck
Power one sun inverter change to wind - YouTube
greetings
Cor
password 05591