Let your Deye battery charge from the grid

With it off, cheap power never reaches your battery

• Timers that buy power to fill your battery are accepted by the inverter and then do nothing.
• If your battery slips below its floor overnight, only the sun can bring it back up. We’ve seen a Deye wake its owner with a beeping alarm at 7%.
• Charging from your solar works exactly as before.
• It’s your inverter and your call. We never change this setting for you.

Switch it on in the Deye Cloud app

1. Open the Deye Cloud app and tap Device at the bottom of the screen.
2. On your inverter’s card, tap Professional Settings.
3. Tap Batch Command. If it asks which settings, pick Battery Setting.
4. Tap Read, so every box shows what your inverter is set to right now.
5. Scroll down to Grid Charge and choose Enable.
6. Tap Setup to send it to your inverter, then open Control Log to check it went through.

Read before Setup. Setup sends the page to your inverter, so reading first means everything you didn’t touch goes back exactly as it was. Deye’s own guide says the same.

Can’t find Professional Settings? Your installer can do it

• Many home accounts can only look, with the installer holding the controls.
• Ask your installer to switch Grid Charge on for you, or to give your Deye Cloud account control permission.
• More on permission in Connecting a Deye inverter.

Or on the inverter’s own screen

From Deye’s manual for the SUN-5-12K-SG04LP3-AU. Other Deye hybrids are laid out much the same.

• Tap the gear icon to open System Setup.
• Open Battery Setting and go to its second page.
• Tick Grid Charge. The number beside it is how hard the grid may charge the battery.

We notice the change the next time you look

Solarprod reads this setting whenever you open your inverter’s control page. Once it’s on, the note there disappears and timers that charge from the grid work again.