diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7fdbf707cd..1a4826aa3c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ we hit release version 1.0.0.
 	as the only argument.
 
 ### Fixed
+- delta-files (netCDF) would always have diagonal components,
+  this has now been removed since it only needs the elements with
+	values
+- Siesta sparse matrices could in some cases set wrong diagonal
+  components
 - orbital quantum numbers from HSX file was wrong in v1, #462
 - RealSpaceSI for right semi-infinite directions, #475
 - tbtrans files now have a separate entry in the documentation
diff --git a/sisl/io/siesta/_help.py b/sisl/io/siesta/_help.py
index 0956a1a529..b1e0bc0511 100644
--- a/sisl/io/siesta/_help.py
+++ b/sisl/io/siesta/_help.py
@@ -45,9 +45,17 @@ def _csr_from_siesta(geom, csr):
     _csr_from_sc_off(geom, _siesta.siesta_sc_off(*geom.nsc).T, csr)
 
 
-def _csr_to_siesta(geom, csr):
-    """ Internal routine to convert *any* SparseCSR matrix from sisl nsc to siesta nsc """
-    _ensure_diagonal(csr)
+def _csr_to_siesta(geom, csr, diag=True):
+    """ Internal routine to convert *any* SparseCSR matrix from sisl nsc to siesta nsc
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    ...
+    diag: bool, optional
+       whether the csr matrix will be ensured diagonal as well
+    """
+    if diag:
+        _ensure_diagonal(csr)
     _csr_to_sc_off(geom, _siesta.siesta_sc_off(*geom.nsc).T, csr)
 
 
diff --git a/sisl/io/tbtrans/delta.py b/sisl/io/tbtrans/delta.py
index 91aeadc52a..2289042d7a 100644
--- a/sisl/io/tbtrans/delta.py
+++ b/sisl/io/tbtrans/delta.py
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ def write_delta(self, delta, **kwargs):
             raise SileError(f"{self!s}.write_overlap cannot write a zero element sparse matrix!")
 
         # convert to siesta thing and store
-        _csr_to_siesta(delta.geometry, csr)
+        _csr_to_siesta(delta.geometry, csr, diag=False)
         # delta should always write sorted matrices
         csr.finalize(sort=True)
         _mat_spin_convert(csr, delta.spin)