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Solar Explorer Kit MPPT lab 2 Not working

Hello I am trying to do lab 2 of this workshop http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/C2000_SolarWorkshop

But I am having a hard time with lab 2 where on step 20 of the lab 2 PDF which can be found in SolarWorkshop_Software/SolarWorkshop/workshops/SolarWorkshop/~Docs   

On the lab 2 pdf on part 25 where it asks to change the value of MPPT to 1. Doing this drops my Vref value and MPPT actually does not kick in to adjust the Vref to work. As far as my hardware goes I have all the main jumpers populated. I do not have M7 J4 populated as it was directed that this is only for GUI control. 

Can someone help me? Also this kit only came with 5 jumper connections, is this normal? 

  • Please search for this string

    mppt_incc1.mppt_enable=0;

     and make it 


    mppt_incc1.mppt_enable=1;

  • Thanks that definitely worked but...

    I wanted to set MPPT TO 0 as default so that when the program is running, it gradually increases like it was supposed to when I set MPPT to 1 in the expressions list.

    What i noticed after more testing was when it asks you to set mppt to 1 on the expressions column the program runs MPPT almost instantaneously and then turns it off when MPPT is 0 in the mainPVinverter.c file . The power spikes close to the theoretical MPPT and then it quickly drops to near 0.

    Is there anyway to fix this?

    Also for Lab 3, the pdf mentions changing solarsettings.h to build level 2. However I cannot find this file in the zip file I downloaded from the wiki. Should I just ignore that step?