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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2023
Sma Solar Technology Ag, Niestetal, DE;
Raimund Thiel, Bad Zwesten, DE;
Michael Viotto, Kassel, DE;
SMA Solar Technology AG, Niestetal, DE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method for setting a power class of an inverter, wherein the inverter has a device type plate containing information about the inverter which is device-specific and independent of the selected power class, and wherein the inverter has a class plate which is selected from a plurality of power class-specific class plates each assigned to one power class from a plurality of power classes and contains information about the assigned power class. The method includes capturing an image of the device type plate and the class plate and reading out the device-specific information and the information about the assigned power class from the data captured as an image, —transferring a setting sequence to the inverter, wherein the setting sequence has the information about the assigned power class, —setting the power class of the inverter using the setting sequence following authentication of the read-out information. The disclosure also relates to an inverter having a power class that can be set.