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  1. Do you have your Geyser on the system? I run my geyser from 10:00 to 16:00.
  2. Herman did you sort your's out? I have the same issue.
  3. Hi Glen The same thing happened to my Deye inverter over the weekend, did you manage to sort this out?
  4. Mien, I was also struck by lightning and lost my inverter, two batteries and whole lot of other stuff in the house. In my case the breaker tripped but still did not prevent the damage if that makes you feel any better. It sucks big time, but I spoke to several people and they say there is not much you can do to prevent the damage. What is strange is my panels where all fine, and I had a direct strike on the aerial on the roof.
  5. I have the same but only when there is load shedding. And this only happens with my downlights non dimmable.
  6. Bobster I was hit directly during this storm in JHB south on the 16th. It hit me on a old LTE antenna I still had on the roof and I suffered substantial damage. My inverter and two batteries were dead, house alarm, gate PC board, tv HDMI, TV Box, I have two routers one was plugged into two red surge protections (gone) the other one made it but was plugged into a UPS which did not make it. I also had a trickle charger plugged into my car battery, luckily the current never made it through to the car but my charger is caput. I also lost 3 day night switches and all the apple chargers that was plugged in (laptop and phone chargers). My electric fence energizer exploded and was almost ripped out of the wall. I had to replace my BMS on both my batteries and the manufacturer mentioned there was not much that can prevent this from happening with a ligning strike. It's crazy what lightning can do.
  7. I spent the 20k on extra panels when I did my install, summer works fine, 200l geyser and I replaced the element with a 3kw one and installed a geyserwise timer to take the geyser to 65 degrees. Geyser comes on at 10:00 and runs until 13:00. We are 4 people in the house, winter is another story I have to let the geyser run in the morning to have a hot shower.
  8. I see their website has been taken down as well.
  9. Thanks Jay, so setting the inverter to 230v did not solve the flickering lights?
  10. Almost all my down lights in my house flicker when off if there is no power from Eskom running on the inverter or just on the generator. Why is this happening? Another thing I have noticed is my fans in the house change speed when there is load shedding, It is audible and I can immediately hear they are running a bit slower when there is no Eskom feed is this also normal?
  11. I have 5 Installed at my house. They are not as bright as the normal Led flood lights so quite disappointed with my 30W one's. One has semi stopped working after 3 years it's on during the day and off at night. They do last the whole night but I notice they get dimmer as the night goes on if they had a good charge during the day.
  12. Looks like everywhere panels are sold out. Are there any places with stock in the country?
  13. Like Antonio said you have to take the battery to them, however I had a known issue on one of my batteries, took it to them and it was back installed the same day, I waited a couple of hours for the repair.
  14. Yes try what greenfields said. Here is my settings: Edit: I must just mention my whole house is on essential so not sure if these will help with the non-essential side.
  15. I would say you have to tick time of use at the top. Also play around with the battery percentage to get the most out of your batteries.
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