Dear all,
I recently purchased a FoxESS L Series EV charger, which is designed to be compatible with solar generation. The intention is for the charger to use excess solar energy (rather than exporting it to the grid) to charge the vehicle.
At the moment, the charger is only drawing around 1.2 kW. I’m not sure whether this is due to a communication issue or if there is a configuration setting on the inverter that I may have missed.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
setup:
H1-5.0-E inverter
Foxess L series charger 7kw
24KW battery system
13 solar panels @ 400w each
Do have any energy graphs you can share from the App/Website to show what power is being sent where.
Some to the EVCP / Battery? / Export?
Work mode for the Inverter (Self-use for example)
Settings for the EVCP if you can view in the App/Website.
Some to the EVCP / Battery? / Export?
Work mode for the Inverter (Self-use for example)
Settings for the EVCP if you can view in the App/Website.
Was this ever resolved?
I have the same issue.
Full batteries, solar panels generating over 7kwh for hours at a time, exporting it to the grid, but electricity trickling into the car battery if at all. All on self-care mode in mode scheduler, with the ev charger device in plug and charge setting plus green mode in photovoltaic link.
Only when the sun goes down does the charging rate increase, but this because the house batteries are discharging into the car.
I have the same issue.
Full batteries, solar panels generating over 7kwh for hours at a time, exporting it to the grid, but electricity trickling into the car battery if at all. All on self-care mode in mode scheduler, with the ev charger device in plug and charge setting plus green mode in photovoltaic link.
Only when the sun goes down does the charging rate increase, but this because the house batteries are discharging into the car.
Here it is - what is currently doing.
car is plugged in.
Battery is full
Working mode - self-use
settings from EVcharger
car is plugged in.
Battery is full
Working mode - self-use
settings from EVcharger
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Something bizarre has happened.
The sun is out in force again today so we plugged in the EV to see if we could get a trickle. The settings were - ‘plug and charge’, NO PHOTOVOLTAIC LINK. THE DEFAULT MODE IS ‘self use’.
The photovoltaic production in the last three hours has been consistently over 7 or 8 KWHr, with peaks of over 12 KWHr. The house batteries are already at 100%.
The Volkswagen app is telling me the car is offline and it can’t tell me anything about the car. .
Amazingly, the car started charging immediately using just the PV solar generation. It has reached the desired capacity without any discharge from the house batteries. It was taking 7.3kwh, which is the maximum designated charging rate.
At no time was any electricity uploaded from the grid, and in fact, we were exporting to the grid throughout the charging session.
Any ideas why turning off the photovoltaic link would cause the car to charge directly from the solar panels?
The sun is out in force again today so we plugged in the EV to see if we could get a trickle. The settings were - ‘plug and charge’, NO PHOTOVOLTAIC LINK. THE DEFAULT MODE IS ‘self use’.
The photovoltaic production in the last three hours has been consistently over 7 or 8 KWHr, with peaks of over 12 KWHr. The house batteries are already at 100%.
The Volkswagen app is telling me the car is offline and it can’t tell me anything about the car. .
Amazingly, the car started charging immediately using just the PV solar generation. It has reached the desired capacity without any discharge from the house batteries. It was taking 7.3kwh, which is the maximum designated charging rate.
At no time was any electricity uploaded from the grid, and in fact, we were exporting to the grid throughout the charging session.
Any ideas why turning off the photovoltaic link would cause the car to charge directly from the solar panels?
Can you get more detail on the error message for the two fault codes.waiting4solar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2026 2:38 pm Here it is - what is currently doing.
car is plugged in.
Battery is full
Working mode - self-use
settings from EVcharger
The first one does not seem important, but the Inverter one does seem more of an issue.
I cannot say I can fix your system, but at least it appears TyGuto might be able to help you compare settings now.