SMA SUNNY TRIPOWER STORAGE 60 Instructions D'installation page 22

3 Product Overview
3.5 System Overview
Figure 3: System overview
The storage system consists of three main components:
• Inverter
• SMA Inverter Manager
The SMA Inverter Manager is always required for the
operation of the inverter. Up to 20 inverters and 20
batteries can be connection to each SMA Inverter
Manager. The SMA Inverter Manager handles all
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communication of the inverters and batteries. It serves
as central interface for data acquisition systems,
upload to cloud services and power-plant control.
• Local commissioning and service tool (LCS-Tool)
The LCS tool is required for the commissioning and
servicing of the inverter via the SMA Inverter Manager.
The LCS-Tool is the primary user interface for the PV
system.
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