Marie1

The efergy meter is connected to the main incoming Eskom line. I've switched everything off one by one, thereafter all the switches off on the db box untill only the inverter switch was left. With everthing off exept the inverter, the reading was 330w. If I look at my history reports, we used +-300w/h during the night (having this system for 1year 1/2 years) After installing the new batteries, our usage are now 600+w/h during the night. I have not change or add any electric units. We did not use heaters, electric blankets etc. during winter. Our heatpump runs during the day. When waking up this morning I saw on the efergy the current use are 650w, so I thought, let me switch of everything one by one to see what is using the extra watts. I saw the watts going lower when switching of the fridge etc. To make sure I didn't miss something, I switched off the switches at the db box. It stayed at 330w with only the inverter left, when I switched the inverter off, the watts went down to 0. This was early morning.

Our system does not charge the batteries overnight. My problem is that we use to use an average of 300w per night. Now we use 600w per night. We changed the 8 stride batteries to 12 sonic gel batteries. I do not currently have a battery monitor, but will get one as soon as finances allow. Our efergy meter is quite correct with most of the readings, as every month on the 1st I compare the unit readings on efergy to the units used on my prepaid box, it does seem to be correct. Everything worked 100% with the old batteries, we got down from +-26 units to +-12 units per day. Bought the 12 gel batteries to aim to use under 10 units per day. Unfortunetaly from the date that we installed the new batteries, our units went up. Even on a warm sunny day, we use much more units than before(with more batteries) we've got so many settings from the solar company, it seems to me that they are not sure either. Where can I get the new firmware? Please see my current settings: 1 - SbU 2 - 40a 3 - UPS 4 - 5d5 disable 5 - AGM 6 - LtE enable 7 - enable 9 - 50hz 11 - 2a 12 - 46v 13 - 54 v 16 - OSO only solar 18 - bON 19 - tEP 20 - LON 22 - AON 23 - byd disable 25 - FEN enable 26 - 56.4v 27 - 54.0v 28 - SIG 29 - 42.0v 30 - ONE 31 - Sbd disable The gel batteries were bought new 4 months ago. How do I test if there are problems with them? Can I take it somewhere to be tested? I'm in Vredekloof, Cape town. What is Viper load? Please bare with me, my husband is not home often because of his work, and I have to figure this out by myself. Thank you

Thank you, hope someone can help.

Please help! We have upgraded our batteries on our solar system 4 months ago. Currently having 9 x 300w panels and 12 sonic gel 100ah batteries. We've noticed that our average night time usage was 300w/h more than before. This morning we switched everything of in the house exept the inverter. On the efergy meter it still showed 330w. After shutting the inverter down, the watts went down to 0watts. Why is the inverter using so much power? It wasn't like this before with the old batteries. We are using much more units per day now with 12 gel batteries, than with the previous 8 stride 105ah batteries. It doesn't make sense.