No consistent solar charging

Stonerseanm03

I leave my 4 boulder 100 panels plugged into my yeti 6000x. Additionally I have my 6000x integrated into my house and occasionally run small portions of my house off the panels. Every so often, my panels register 0 watts in and I have to disconnect the plug and reinsert to get them to start produce power again. Is this and issue with the panels or the yeti?

jg164

@Stonerseanm03,

Please see what you can do to address known setup and panel angle problems summarized here and in many other posts on this forum.

1. When the Yeti has reached 100%, charging will stop and will not resume charging until Yeti State Of Charge percentage drops below the RECHARGE point OR the input cord is un-plugged and reconnected. The recharge point feature is there to help reduce overcharging and maximize battery life. Read more here https://github.com/GoalZero26503/yeti-wifi-public/wiki/Charging-Profiles

2. If the solar panel voltage is so low that it can't charge from it, un-plugging and reconnecting it may allow the solar panel voltage to rise enough to now be in the acceptable input voltage range of 14-50V. If this is the case, try cleaning the panels, pointing them at the sun, keeping all shade off of them (even blades of grass or hazy skies can impact it. Poor sun conditions are a significant factor). Goal Zero Solar panels do not work behind a window, they must be outside.

3. If you do not have the connectors all the way plugged in, are using extension cables BETWEEN yeti and a combiner cable (extensions should only be used on the input side of a combiner or between a single panel and the Yeti). Or you have damaged cables or panels. All of that adds resistance and reduces voltage that makes it to the Yeti making it reject the input.

We do extensive testing on recovery after shading panels. This has been known to work well and is retested every time before we release a new firmware update. If you are having to reconnect your solar input and are seeing full ~400W power from those boulder panels after, then you may be having a hardware or firmware problem. If you can only get a few watts after, its more likely than not something you can resolve my working on improving the setup or solar conditions.