Sunny Explorer – setting the plant time of the inverter
(jh) The display for the Month, Year, and Total diagrams does not seem to be plausible, or you would generally like to adjust the plant time and time zones in Sunny Explorer.
Aside from these situations, you only need to change the plant time in Sunny Explorer if it is incorrect.
Proceed as follows to change the plant time of all devices in the PV plant:
- In the menu bar, select “Options > Set plant time…”. The “Plant time” dialog opens.
- Select the current date in the “Date” field and/or the current time in the “Time” field. By activating “Daylight saving time” 1 hour will be added to the normal time (UTC + time zone).
- Select the time zone in which the plant is located in the “Time zone” field.
- Confirm by clicking “OK”. The plant time is now set.
You can apply the plant time with the current time of your computer via the [Apply operating system time] button.
The date and the time of a PV plant is described as the plant time.
If you change the plant time in a communication product, all inverters immediately adopt the new plant time. Other communication products in the plant, however, only adopt the plant time after a certain period of time (max. 7 hours later).
When commissioning your PV plant with a communication product (e.g. Sunny Explorer, Sunny Beam with Bluetooth®), the devices of the PV plant automatically adopt the plant time of the communication product.
If other communication plants are added to the PV plant, the new communication products automatically adopt the existing plant time. All devices in the PV plant will thus display the same plant time.