Crowley
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Crowley got a reaction from Greglsh in New solar installationThanks for all the replies. We ended up going with 28 x 550w Canadian Solar panels, 3 x Luxpower SNA-6000 inverters and 6 x 5KW Revov batteries that the installer supplied at the same price as Ecohub. I bought a second hand 36U cabinet that we put on it's back for the batteries.
We did have some issues with the installation, some code on the inverters was wrong so it couldn't communicate with the batteries. Turns out Luxpower changed the code from their manual to the actual inverters for some reason. Then the system kept on tripping the earth breaker, turns out the previous owner of the house had a 20A earth breaker installed so when the inverters were pulling power from Eskom it tripped the whole system. Installed a 63A earth breaker and now it is humming along very nicely. Today will be the first time we have it running 100% so will see how it goes.
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Crowley got a reaction from mzezman in New solar installationThanks for all the replies. We ended up going with 28 x 550w Canadian Solar panels, 3 x Luxpower SNA-6000 inverters and 6 x 5KW Revov batteries that the installer supplied at the same price as Ecohub. I bought a second hand 36U cabinet that we put on it's back for the batteries.
We did have some issues with the installation, some code on the inverters was wrong so it couldn't communicate with the batteries. Turns out Luxpower changed the code from their manual to the actual inverters for some reason. Then the system kept on tripping the earth breaker, turns out the previous owner of the house had a 20A earth breaker installed so when the inverters were pulling power from Eskom it tripped the whole system. Installed a 63A earth breaker and now it is humming along very nicely. Today will be the first time we have it running 100% so will see how it goes.
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Crowley got a reaction from Bl4d3 in New solar installationThanks for all the replies. We ended up going with 28 x 550w Canadian Solar panels, 3 x Luxpower SNA-6000 inverters and 6 x 5KW Revov batteries that the installer supplied at the same price as Ecohub. I bought a second hand 36U cabinet that we put on it's back for the batteries.
We did have some issues with the installation, some code on the inverters was wrong so it couldn't communicate with the batteries. Turns out Luxpower changed the code from their manual to the actual inverters for some reason. Then the system kept on tripping the earth breaker, turns out the previous owner of the house had a 20A earth breaker installed so when the inverters were pulling power from Eskom it tripped the whole system. Installed a 63A earth breaker and now it is humming along very nicely. Today will be the first time we have it running 100% so will see how it goes.
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Crowley got a reaction from Jacques Ester in New solar installationThanks for all the replies. We ended up going with 28 x 550w Canadian Solar panels, 3 x Luxpower SNA-6000 inverters and 6 x 5KW Revov batteries that the installer supplied at the same price as Ecohub. I bought a second hand 36U cabinet that we put on it's back for the batteries.
We did have some issues with the installation, some code on the inverters was wrong so it couldn't communicate with the batteries. Turns out Luxpower changed the code from their manual to the actual inverters for some reason. Then the system kept on tripping the earth breaker, turns out the previous owner of the house had a 20A earth breaker installed so when the inverters were pulling power from Eskom it tripped the whole system. Installed a 63A earth breaker and now it is humming along very nicely. Today will be the first time we have it running 100% so will see how it goes.