Dry Contact Application Of SPH-UP Model

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Dry Contact Application Of SPH-UP Model

With the increasing use of solar and storage systems, utilizing every piece of solar power adequately and
properly is an important developing direction. When the solar and energy storage system becomes the core
of the energy management center, it’s required to allocate the access of various home appliances, like water
heaters and generators. Therefore, GROWATT develops the dry contact to meet such various applications

Wiring Connection Of Dry Contact For Water Heater Application

GROWATT single-phase and three-phase SPH-UP model offer 12Vdc control voltage of the dry contact,
coordinating with additional relay to realize the control of water heater, the power consumption of the relay
control coil is required to be within 2W such as the Finder Type 48.12

Wiring Connection
of Dry Contact for Water Heater
Multiple Control Modes For Water Heaters

Export Power Control Mode

The export power control mode is based on the power feeding into the grid. When the power feeding into the
grid is larger than the value of “D-Export Power”, the dry contact will offer a continuous 12Vdc power
through the relay to activate the water heater. And the dry contact will stop offering the power when the
feeding power is smaller than the value of “TurnOff P”. Additionally, you can add delay time and minimum
running period to prevent the dry contact from acting frequently due to the power fluctuation
Power Control Mode Operation Flow Chart through LCD
Export P: The dry contact will offer a continuous 12Vdc power when the power feeding into the grid is
higher than it

OnDelay: The dry contact will act only when the feeding power is larger than the value of “Export P” for
the set delay time

MinRun: The dry contact will continuously work at least for the minimum time, then it’s possible to stop.

TurnOff P: The dry contact will stop offering a 12Vdc power when the feeding power is lower than it.
Timer Control Mode

The dry contact will continuously offer a 12V power during the setting time.

Time Mode Operation Flow Chart through LCD

Timer Control Mode

Combing the export power control mode and the timer control, the dry contact only acts when it meets the
setting of the timer and the surplus feeding power

Timer Mode Operation Flow Chart through LCD

Wiring Connection Of Dry Contact For Generator

There are two activation ways for the generator application including Low Battery SoC Activation and
Manual Activation. The single-phase and three-phase SPH-UP model can offer a 12Vdc power of the dry
contact to activate the generator, supplying the loads when the battery SOC is low without adequate power
during the off-grid condition. Once the generator is on, its output cannot conflict with the output of the
hybrid inverter, therefore, an additional automatic transfer switch is required in the system.
Low Battery SoC Activation

During the off-grid condition, when the battery SoC is lower than the value of “Start SoC”, the system will
disable the EPS output and then the dry contact will continuously offer a 12Vdc power to activate the
generator. After the battery is charged to the “End SoC” or the grid power comes back, the system will stop
offering a 12Vdc to the generator, and then recover the EPS output

Low Battery SoC Activation Flow Chart through LCD

Note: If the battery system is the lead-acid battery, then the system will operate according to the start and
end voltage.
Note: To avoid switching on/off the generator frequently, the minimum working time of the generator is ten
minutes.
Manual Activation

During the off-grid condition, when the user enables the manual activation, the system will disable the EPS
output and then offer a continuous 12V power to activate the generator. And the dry contact will stop
offering a 12V power and enable the EPS output when disabling the manual activation
Manual Activation Flow Chart through LCD
Benefits

The users can realize multiple control modes of the water heater and generator by GROWATT dry contact
solution. On the one hand, it can help the users to boost the solar self-consumption rate and reduce the
electricity bills further, on the other hand, it can help users to guarantee the 24 hours power supply when a
blackout happens.