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Upgrade to whole home backup
For many years I had Multiplus Compact 800VA inverter with a flood-lead acid battery bank, wired into my light circuits, so that during loadshedding my lighting and security was unaffected (I also pulled a plug to my bedroom so that a fan and tv could work) - this worked well, loadshedding hasn't caused by nearly as much frustration as for many others.
But 5+ years later, and the battery bank isn't holding it's charge well anymore, and the time came to upgrade to a whole-home solution, Multiplus II 5000VA. While the system is currently grid-tied, the plan is to bring in solar as time (money) allows.
- Album created by WernervH
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- 5 images
- 5 images
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BSLBATT Battery
Excellent BSLBATT installation in South Africa
- Album created by BSLBATT
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- 44 images
- 1 album comment
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- 44 images
- 1 album comment
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Guss
Day 1. Installed most of the hardware against the wall in the spare bedroom.
(the little fu**** also show here, decided he want to pee against the boxes, so I had to get it out of his way)
- Album created by Guss Davey
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- 17 images
- 7 album comments
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- 17 images
- 7 album comments
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Hederberg Solar Energy
- Album created by Helderberg Solar Energy
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- 7 images
- 2 album comments
- 7 images
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My PV Installation
My PV installation:
2x Axpert 5kVa/5kW Inverters
24x 255w ReneSola Panels
4 x 260Ah OmniPower batteries
BMV702 Battery Monitor
Raspberry Pi3+ running ICC Software
MQTT Communication with Home Assistant
- Album created by Jackie
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- 2 images
- 1 image comment
- 2 images
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Solar Pergola at Swazi Str
The 8Kw solar pergola
- Album created by PaulinNorthcliff
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- 4 images
- 4 images
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Solar Power Monitor
Free mobile application for checking actual values from your PV interter with wifibox/wificard which sending data to power-datacenter.com server.
Download app for free (Google Play Store)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tools4monitoring.solar.power
- Album created by buffy
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- 3 images
- 3 images
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Solar expansion - mixed panels
Had 3 x 305W's and added 3 x 330W's in January 2019 and decided to only add another 2, ended up with adding 5 x 350W's. 305W's are 4 years old and not 100% efficient anymore, thus I connected the panels in the following way:
3 x 305W's in series
2 x 330W's in series
1 x 330W & 350W in series
2 sets of 2 x 350W's in series and all in parallel.
With 10% loss on 305W's my calculations work out that I only have a 8% loss on complete configuration as result of mixing and matching.
Increased power from 1.8kW to 3.2kW
- Album created by Ridiq
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New solar installation
Compiled a solar system for my father in law in Schweizer-Reneke. He's running most of the house from this system. Main requirements to have power during the day as result of inconsistent power supply during daytime and the battery power for short intervals at night.
10 x 350w Canadian Solar panels
1 x 5KW 5KVA RCT Inverter
1 x 2.4KW Pylontech battery
ICC software running on Pi3b
- Album created by Ridiq
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- 4 images
- 4 images
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OpenEnergyMonitor
Graphs of real time usage, provided from OpenEnergyMonitor
- Album created by georgelza
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- 7 images
- 7 images
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My solar monitoring console
Made by myself.
- Album created by sunu2017
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My solar setup
My home powered by 3KVA solar
- Album created by sunu2017
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DIY Solar Wireless Highsite
Enjoyed it very much!
- Album created by Energy-Jason
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- 8 images
- 8 images