2. Using the GX 'Home page' Generator graphic: Press the top-left button on the CCGX, or Color Control GX Remote
Console and engage the Generator page. Then press the center button. You must first choose how you wish to stop the
generator - manually, or by entering a run-time. Once you've made your selection a five-second countdown will begin during
which you can abort the manual start by pressing the center button.
WARNING: If the generator is started manually (remotely) without using the stop timer, it will run until the 'Off' button has also
been manually toggled.
The stop timer is available to both methods of manually remote-starting the generator, and using it will ensure that the generator
will autostop …and will not be inadvertently forgotten.
Note that stopping the generator manually can only be achieved when no un-met 'run' condition is active. If you wish to force a
generator-stop you must first disable the function which is keeping it running - or disable the Generator start/stop function.
16.6.10. Quiet hours
Quiet hours allows you to define a period during which the noise from a running generator would be a nuisance; and to set
different values to the conditions which would cause an autostart during this period - thus ensuring that the generator will only
start during a quiet period when it is absolutely necessary.
From the main menu go to Settings → Generator start/stop → Settings; and then toggle-on the Quiet hours feature. Define
the Quiet hours start- and end- times in the boxes which appear below.
Quiet hours will become the permanent condition (when enabled) if the defined 'start' and 'stop' times are the same.
Using Quiet hours as a tool to define two sets of user-preferences
Alternatively, the Quiet hours feature can be used to define how you wish your system to respond to different circumstances - for
example:
• Early morning/low SoC: Battery SoC is often lowest in the morning. Couple this with cloudy weather first thing - or panels
which have a westerly bias, and which tend to do better in the afternoon; and you have a circumstance where the generator
may autostart in the morning triggered by a low battery SoC condition - yet later on when the day brightens, the solar energy is
wasted because the work has already been done by the generator. Setting the Quiet hours feature to cover this period, together
with lower autostart conditions, will help to avoid unnecessary generator autostarts.
• Holiday home: Holiday homes which are only inhabited part-time experience much deeper power-draws when they are in use.
The Quiet hours feature can be used to set much lower autostart parameters when the house is in use than when it is empty.
Quiet hours should be set to be the permanent condition (see above) during occupation; and the Quiet hours feature can be
toggled 'off' whenever the house is empty.
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