Chris G

Thank you everyone for your help. I have decided to go with the Solis 6kw hybrid and run it in off grid mode. I cannot beat the Powerforum store for price. Even if they add courier costs to i, they still come under their nearest competitor.

If I am not mistaken the Luxpower inverter monitors its fan speed etc. I am told that they switch off if a fan goes faulty. Thanks for your offer though. I agree that eskom and I differ regarding the meaning of Off gid. I wish I could remove the cabling to my house but the municipality refuses. They even charge connection fees to empty stands here

Yes, I see from your list that it works with the Dyness A481100. I was reffering to the advert where it lists the compatible batteries but does not list dyness. Would I be able to use this inverter in a strictly offgrid mode where it is not capable of feeding back to eskom? Not even a sense voltage of some kind?

Thanks, unfortunately from the advert I see they are not compatible with Dyness batteries. Would I be able to set it up in offgrid mode so that it does not feed back like the Luxpower does?

My friends, please please please do not tell me about inverters that feedback or how to feedback or why I should or should not feedback into the grid. I am not interested in doing that. Eskom can go and generate there own. I am looking for a silent off grid inverter, not a hybrid. Any thoughts on the offgrid 6kw Deye?

Thanks but I am looking towards an offgrid inverter as I do not want to feedback into the grid. Hybrid inverters do feedback a tiny amount regardless if you set to do this or not. If you have a standard prepaid meter this could cause errors.

Good day esteemed ladies and gentleman, I am currently the proud and happy owner of a Luxpower SNA 5000 MPV inverter. It has brought me over a year of good service but Oh my word this thing is noisy. Due to security problems I cannot install it anywhere else in my house and my garage gets way to hot. Please help me to choose a silent (heatsink only) type inverter. I cannot feedback into the grid as I am still waiting for the municipality to come install a prepaid meter. This means hybrids are also out due to some of them messing with the meter. I stay in the Free State (only just) and receive Eskom from the municipality and not direct. Generator input is important and so is wifi communication. I do have Solar Assistant. After an episode early in my solar endeavors with a Fivestar inverter I will not buy a fongkong rebranded item again. Budget is up to R25K but then it better make me coffee in the morning as well. My current setup is 2 strings of 5 panels each of Q-duo XL-G 580W Voc 61.7V Max current 10.81A and Vmpp at 53.7. I do not have a north facing roof and need the two strings for east / west setup 2 Dyness A48100 batteries My AC trip for the inverter output is a 20A Circuit breaker and it has never tripped. My peak usage according to the Effergy meter has been Approximately 4300W

I bought a newer style bms from Lithium cells in Pretoria as I wanted the bms connection and display they come with. I believe this problem has been sorted out now

I am using the settings as suggested by offgridgarage. Thanks for the advice

I am tending to agree with you on this.

This is a warning to those kind folk out there that want to buy battery systems. I received a 100A JK bms connected to 16 100A cells for a very good price This comes from a reputable company in Pretoria. I have dealt with them regarding lead acid batteries and have not had any issues with them. But my goodness the lithium side of the business definitely needs some work. The bms was setup as follows. Cell OVP 2.7V SOC 100% 2.68 CELL OVPR 2.65 CELL UVPR 1.85 SOC 0% V 1.82 CELL UVP 1.8 I believe that if I leave the bms at these settings I will get to use about 20% of the battery and run it bellow the manufactures limits. This is just a warning to those out there wanting to go semi DIY Iike I am. After chatting with one of the members at the business I was given the "correct" settings and the password of 12345 (without the 6). That password obviously did not work lol. I was also informed that going outside the new specs that where given will invalidate my warranty. Needless to say I will be invalidating my warranty big time. Do not ask I will not mention the company. I will be using the settings as set out by Off grid garage on youtube Rant over

I have been having a bad day but it has turned good. When setting up the Luxpower to Dyness battery communication cable it does not work as advertised. Dyness supplies you with the communication cable marked LUX. Put it in storage as it won't work. Use the 1 to 1 cable marked Goodwe instead. This advice I got from David of Luxpower head office. It was confirmed by Tour Shen of Dyness technical support, whose contact details I found elsewhere on this forum. It appears as if Luxpower has changed the pin out of the can port without updating the documentation. There is a sticker on the luxpower box indicating the wiring change but that is a bit misleading. I hope this advice helps someone else

Be warned that 8000VA fivestar inverter is not a 8000W inverter. It is 6500W. If you compare it to other 5kW inverters you will be good

Just a side note, I bought the Fivestar 8500VA wifi inverter and because I don't trust the Chinese manufacturing ethics I opened it up. One of the earth points was not coupled to the casing. It was just laying loose inside.

Good day all I have a Power Star IR4000W LF inverter currently running on 4 x 12MVR180 in series. No Solar as I use it as a UPS style inverter for load shedding. Unfortunately the batteries seem to be coming to the end of their life and I would like to replace them with a Lithium battery. Is this possible and if so what size would be recommended? Secondly would a battery balancer help to extend the life of the batteries a bit at this stage? I notice that there is one battery that drops to 10.5V quickly ( about 1 to 1.5 Hours) if the inverter gets a 2KW load. ( I got the batteries second hand and they where previously pulled to 10.5V a good number of times in their 4 year life)