MrsMoose

Hi Buyeye Thank you so much for the detailed and informative post - it's massively helpful. So I'm not sure if this changes your advice at all but turns out they installed the wrong inverter. We were actually quoted for the 5000ES but they accidentally installed the TL (all fixed now and they sorted it so happy with their service as it was a genuine mistake). Having said that, we've also gone gas geysers and gas hob now which alleviates the load - we also had a 3kW kettle (I never started paying attention to these things until we got solar). Feeling like we are getting there with managing our appliances and when to maximise the solar usage of them. Thank you again!

Hi everyone I've read through this thread with a lot of interest, as a bit of a solar newbie. Would greatly appreciate some advice as I think my husband and I are in a similar situation with our setup. Setup 1x Growatt 5000 TL inverter 7x 400W PV 2x Dyness 2.4kWh Li batteries Aim To reduce dependency on Eskom as much as possible To power the house and appliances during the day on PV, or a combination of PV and Battery (we are moving to a gas hob and gas geysers next week) To power the house reasonably during load shedding (lights, Wi-Fi and TV). We also have a 20kVa generator that can power the house during load shedding or charge the batteries but I prefer to use it as a last resort, relying more on the solar/batteries combo. Since our install, we've tripped the power a couple of times. We know this is a load issue with the number of appliances so we are managing that better. However, my questions are: Is the 5000 TL the right inverter? From reading this thread and others on this forum, it seems the ES is the better inverter but I'm not 100% sure on how exactly and what the benefits are (not being sarcastic, genuinely trying to learn here ) How can we make the best use of the system - I was told we can only put on an additional 4 panels with this inverter, so my thinking is that maybe we invest in another battery instead of those panels? Our SOC point setting back to utility source is on SBU with 20% - not sure what the SOC point setting for back to battery mode is (still trying to figure out the dashboard settings) Any help gratefully received.