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madness_za

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    madness_za got a reaction from zsde in Power a Raspberry pi directly from inverter   
    You can definitely find a DC to DC PSU, SA sell one that works great but I'm quite sure if you hunt around you'll find one at a decent price
    https://solar-assistant.io/shop/products/dc_usb_psu
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from zsde in Website check   
    Domain registered in 2019 via GoDaddy, Site hosted on AWS.
    Ts&Cs reference South African things like the CPA, but the lack of actual street address and landline contact details makes me very wary
    As always, if you can't visit them physically and collect, I would stay away
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    madness_za got a reaction from ibiza in Website check   
    Domain registered in 2019 via GoDaddy, Site hosted on AWS.
    Ts&Cs reference South African things like the CPA, but the lack of actual street address and landline contact details makes me very wary
    As always, if you can't visit them physically and collect, I would stay away
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    madness_za got a reaction from WannabeSolarSparky in Website check   
    Domain registered in 2019 via GoDaddy, Site hosted on AWS.
    Ts&Cs reference South African things like the CPA, but the lack of actual street address and landline contact details makes me very wary
    As always, if you can't visit them physically and collect, I would stay away
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    madness_za got a reaction from TimCam in Sonoff Africa Home Automation Starter Kit Giveaway   
    Wow! That’s amazing!
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    madness_za got a reaction from MornéM in Sonoff Africa Home Automation Starter Kit Giveaway   
    The goodies arrived!
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    madness_za got a reaction from Carl Anthony in Sonoff Africa Home Automation Starter Kit Giveaway   
    Wow! That’s amazing!
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    The goodies arrived!
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    madness_za got a reaction from TheMac in Sonoff Africa Home Automation Starter Kit Giveaway   
    Wow! That’s amazing!
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    madness_za got a reaction from Demo in My iron causing havoc with my solar   
    If the only inconvenience is to your eyeballs, I suggest you don't look.
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from Carl Anthony in My iron causing havoc with my solar   
    If the only inconvenience is to your eyeballs, I suggest you don't look.
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from gimme_power in My iron causing havoc with my solar   
    If the only inconvenience is to your eyeballs, I suggest you don't look.
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from ibiza in My iron causing havoc with my solar   
    If the only inconvenience is to your eyeballs, I suggest you don't look.
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from TimCam in My iron causing havoc with my solar   
    If the only inconvenience is to your eyeballs, I suggest you don't look.
     
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    madness_za got a reaction from Jacques Ester in Alternative to Watchpower, any recommendations?   
    Have you tried with an Android Phone/Tablet?
    Paid Option: SolarAssistant:
    Buy this: https://solar-assistant.io/shop/products/device_opi3lts
    Also buy this cable (NOT the micro USB one):  https://solar-assistant.io/shop/products/voltronic_rs232
    Setup is easy. Connect PSU cables to your battery terminals. Connect Inverter Cable. Let Pi boot up, go through setup steps outlined here: https://solar-assistant.io/help/getting-started/prepare-device
     
    Note: the Pi tends to play nice with the older 2.4Ghz WiFi, not 5Ghz WiFi. If you have signal problems you will experience frequent disconnects
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    madness_za got a reaction from Energy-Jason in Cooling Sunsynk 5kW   
    You can literally zip tie the fans together and lay them directly on the heatsink on top to pull the hot air up.
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    madness_za got a reaction from Toxxyc in Planning and designing my solar setup   
    Re : battery charging close to full SOC, that's normal and dictated by the BMS. I think you can do 25 amp charging without any issues tbh
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    madness_za got a reaction from chrisc in Alternative to Watchpower, any recommendations?   
    If I remember correctly from setting up Watchpower, first you connect to the inverter with the app, set the correct WiFi credentials so the inverter can connect to the internet, then it will work. It's incredibly buggy and I remember it taking multiple tries and two different phones to get it to work
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    madness_za got a reaction from Stefan Cornelissen in Online stock 550W panels   
    https://www.inverter-warehouse.co.za/collections/solar-panels-1
     
    Used them twice
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    madness_za got a reaction from Nolwazi in Fivestar batteries, good value?   
    No. Just look at the lack of aftersales support for them. They're cheap for a reason
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    Do you know what the load is when this happens?
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    madness_za got a reaction from system32 in Inverter settings in absence of load shedding   
    Without panels it’s not even worth cycling the battery at night because it’s gonna cost you to grid charge and you lose due to conversion inefficiency. I would switch over to grid completely and boot up the inverter maybe once a week to charge, then shut down 
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    madness_za got a reaction from Coulomb in RCT-AXVMIII-3K inverter question.   
    If you're using voltage settings to manage your battery I can safely assume you do not have BMS communication between battery and inverter. In that case, your inverter is "guessing" the State of Charge based on voltage alone, which doesn't really work for lithium batteries.
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    madness_za got a reaction from zsde in ICC-Solar   
    https://solar-assistant.io/explore/icc

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