TiaanSmit

We use most of our electricity at night

Hi Everyone, I'm going to have solar installed at our house. Our average KWH consumption is between 550 -600KWH per month with winter months being the highest. Determining the size of inverters, Battery storage, PV array etc. is a bit of a headache for me. Previously I considered growatt inverters but have since changed my mind to go for Sunsynk or Deye instead. My Wife and I both operate our businesses from home. My Wife has a hair salon and I do IT related stuff remotely from my office. We consume most of the KWH between 5pm and 8pm the following morning that average on some days 8KWH between those times when wife switches on the salon geyser, have the washing machine and dishwasher on at the same time. The geyser for the salon gets switched off at 3pm in the afternoon only to be switched on again the following morning. We have a solar geyser with Flat panel for the main residence that only uses electricity after 5 if the sun did not heat up the geyser to 50 odd degrees Celsius. I've been thinking of going the following route at approx. R200k for hardware and installation: Begin with: 2 x 5KW sunsynk inverters 1 x Felicity 8.7KWH lithium ion batteries 18 x 460w Solar panels I would then like to add additional battery capacity later this year when I have more money available for instance 1 x felicity 8.7kwh battery (17.4KWH of storage total with no modification to the PV array) or 2 x felicity 8.7KWH battery's and adding an additional 4 or 6 460 watt PV panels. What would you guys recommend and on what possible configuration to get as much savings on my utility bill as possible but to also have enough battery power to carry me us through load shedding? I have a 6800 something odd Ryobi generator with avr that I would like to tie into the system aswell but I'm not sure if that's a good idea? Thanks in advance.

I've been researching lUxpower inverters as an alternative to growatt. Been reading alot of good reviews and are slowly starting to think of going this route. Heating about it being in use for 24 months and more without any issues gives me peace of mind. Love the fact that it's silent. I want it to be installed in my office.

Hey everyone, I'm currently trying to source all the required hardware,cabling etc. to have solar installed at my house. I planned to go with the Growatt PSPF5000-es inverters but cannot find stock anywhere. I'm Looking for a reasonably priced alternative and found the Mecer 5.6KW hybrid inverter to be more or less in the same rice range. How do these compare to growatt? Are Mecer inverters reliable? Here is a picture of the one I'mm interested in: