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Hi do anyone have experience with the Ceil Solatron batteries? impressive cycle stats on these batts http://www.batterysolutions.co.za/files/bat/1412755238_CEIL Solatron.pdf?cache=362 Ceil SGL GEL 12V Battery 200ah DOD: 20% – 6000 cycles 50% – 2200 cycles 80% – 1200 cycles (LxWxH)428x287x400mm Weight:72kg

Any places in Cape town that buy back old batteries by kg?

There is a 200AH 12volt Trojan J200-RE but ive not seen it locally yet

Too low temps will also cause a fridge/freezer to run allot longer. my fridge/freezer seem to be happy at -19c and 3c but going to -20 on the freezer increases the run time allot

Me too lol

is Solarmon still available? I've got a fried that also want to setup monitoring of his 24v axpert. the http://www.solarmonitor.co.za/site is down.

These are nice 1st Trojan-RE 12 volt with smart carbon tec http://www.trojanbattery.com/product/J200-re/ Im thinking of getting 2 of these to replace my 4 X 100AH strides, problem is it looks like its not available locally yet

Hi CaTcH21 whenever i want to charge batteries i use my Hobby charger, true they will take long to fill up a large Lithium but they can charge pretty much any type of battery I use my hobby charger to do a equilize charge over night on my lead acids every 6 months or so http://hobbymania.co.za/chargers/imax-b6ac-v2-professional-balance-charger-discharger Where did you buy the 100AH lithium cells ?

Hi I use these between my battery and inventor. http://www.solarsolved.co.za/index.php/products/miscellaneous/accesories/fuse-switch-disconnector-detail Its a fuse and also a switch. it takes the standard fuses so you can choose whatever amps you reqire

Im only using the batteries for the odd power outage and wile on solar during the day to pick up any shortfall in production when it rains etc. So im not really going to cycle very deep every day. so it guess for usage like this the Trojans will last 8 years or so.

Ive got Helukabel Solar Flex! 4mm2 , very good cable

Do you guys think its worth the extra expense to go for lead crystal over Trojan RE ? These lead crystal batteries promise a lot of cycles but are they really proven? http://www.solarsolved.co.za/datasheets/batteries/Deltec/Lead_Crystal_6_CNFJ_200.pdf

Have Had my 4X Stride 100AH batteries for +- 14 months daily cycle and they are getting weak now http://www.solarsolved.co.za/index.php/products/batteries/stride-100a-h-12v-battery-detail

I too have 4 x 100ah that's already getting tired and looking for a buyback company that gives a fair price. Its only been 14 months on the stride 100ah deep cycle batteries and i can really notice that they are not storing much energy anymore, sould have gone for Trojans. however as my first bank is probably best to learn on cheap batteries before buying real batteries

It sould yes There's guys in Australia that have hooked up 9 250W panels to a Axpert MKS plus 24V 3kva in 3 strings of 3 panels if the output from the panels gets more than 1500W the MPPT controller will just take what it can it wont go over 60 amps. Thanks to EDMUNDP im all set up http://www.pvoutput.org/list.jsp?userid=50978

Im using 6 Renesola vurtus2 255W panels got them for a good price from www.solarsolved.co.za in cape town but no stock at the moment. 2 strings of 3 panels runs at about 84v at max power running my zodiac flow pro pool pump, geyser heatpump , all house lights and some plugs from a sub db fed by the inverter I get around 1.1 kw midday from the panels currently, thinking of maxing the charge controller by adding another string of 3 X 255w panels.

Its the PLUS model so the max pv charge is 60 amps so 24V model is 1500 w (mine also) and the 48v model is 3000w same as the 5KVA model When i got the inverter last year the 48 volt 3KVA plus models were out of stock so i went for 24 volt

Yes the 3 KVA only have usb

Its the USB model

Hi What are you Guys using to output to PVOutput.org? I've been trying to purchase Solarmon but it seems the Paypal link does not work and sending emails gets no responses from the solarmon guys. AICC do not work for me i cannot select ports when running the application. My system Axpert 24 Volt 3KVA plus (1500w pv) 1530w PV (2 strings 3series 255w panels) 200AH 24v battery bank