Generate wiring
What generate produces, and how issues are reported without blocking.
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What this is for
One explicit action that strings the modules, places combiners and inverters in the model, and writes the schedule. Editing a zone after that drops the stored layout rather than regenerating it. Regenerating behind every keystroke would put a three-hundred-string solve behind every field.
Nothing in the generator refuses. Over-current trackers, over-ampacity conductors, excessive drops and missing optimizers are reported with a named issue and still wired. A check that cannot be saved is blocked before you get here. Requiring an optimizer blocks locking, not generation - so you can see what the design would be.
Steps
- Open the designer, Electrical. Choose an inverter, put at least one field segment in the zone. Generate wiring stays disabled until a zone can be wired.
- Press Generate wiring. The pane then shows strings, AC capacity, DC:AC and conductor metres, and Wire schedule, bill of materials and diagram appears at the top of the pane. Changing a zone parameter after that drops the stored layout; it does not regenerate. The pane warns you when an edit has dropped a schedule you had. Press Generate again.
- Issues sit under the summary. They are warnings, not a stop. Orphan modules (the remainder that will not fill a whole string) are ringed on the canvas and counted in a warning above the zone list, never dropped in silence. Shorten strings to fit or Remove them are the two ways out.
- Placing or moving hardware on the canvas - an inverter, a combiner, the grid connection point, a board or the bank - regenerates the wiring on the spot, because every length measures to where it stands. Fitting a battery drops the stored layout, because a bank is hardware on the design even though it moves no module.
- The outputs page carries the same button (Generate wiring, or Regenerate wiring once a schedule exists) and runs it against the zones already configured. Which inverter serves which zone is still this rail's job.
Tips and common mistakes
- Do not expect the schedule to update as you type. Apply the zone, then Generate.
- A check that did not run is reported. An inverter stating no maximum DC input is not a silently skipped loading test.
- Generate on a locked design is refused, not only greyed on the button.