Chapter 6: LCD – Status Screens and Setup
Options
This chapter describes the LCD display of the SolarEdge firefighter gateway. The LCD screen displays status
information of the gateway and various menus for configuration options.
Status Screens
During normal operation, pressing the Enter button turns the LCD backlight ON. Additional presses on the
Enter button display the following screens one after the other. The backlight is active for 30 seconds by
default. This duration is configurable, as described on page 33.
Main Firefighter Gateway Status
This window displays the communication and safety status of components in the system
< S t a t u s >
X X X / Y Y Y D e v . O N
Z Z Z / Y Y Y D e v . S a f e
M a x . V D C : 0 0 0 V
Status: can be one of the following system stages:
PV Normal Operation
PV Shutting Down – appears when pressing the emergency stop button
PV Reducing Voltage - appears during emergency stop
PV System Safe – appears when the system reaches 120 V after pressing the emergency stop
button
No Communication – indicates that the slave devices are disconnected from the master
Partial Com. – indicates the number of communicating devices (inverters or SMIs) out of the
total number of devices in the installation
XXX/YYY Dev. ON: The number of operational inverters or SMIs out of the total number of
inverters/SMIs in the installation
ZZZ/YYY Dev. Safe: Number of inverters or SMIs that reached the safety threshold voltage or below,
out of the total number of inverters/SMIs in the installation
Max. Vdc: Real-time maximum DC voltage for the entire installation
ID Status
This window displays the ID of the gateway and the software version.
I D : # # # # # # # # # #
C P U : 0 0 0 2 . 0 4 1 1
Server Communication Status
S e r v e r : L A N < S _ O K >
S t a t u s : < O K >
x x x x x x x x
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Server: The method of connection to the SolarEdge monitoring server.
LAN
RS232
RS485 (only applicable for slave SolarEdge devices on the RS485 bus)
ZigBee (only applicable for slave ZigBee devices)