TaliaB
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1 hour ago, PsyCLown said:
This is how it should look:
So it will charge the battery up always, so basically if there is loadshedding at night after the loadshedding it will charge the battery back to 100%
It will always use solar first, if there is not enough solar or no solar then it will draw from the grid as well to take some / all of the load (depending on solar).
Battery will only be used when there is no solar no grid and not enough or no solar.
Just 1 questions pertaining to the charge voltage currently set, you are charging at almost maximum cell charge voltage of 3.6v/cell why don't you relax the charge voltage to 3.5v/ cell or max 3.55v/cell 56v or max 56.8v. There is very little extra capacity above 3.5v/ cell.
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1 minute ago, Scorp007 said:
CoCT. Everything is better there????? 😛😛
No i won't say that if you could swop Gauteng weather with CoCt you will have paradise 😂
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Just now, TaliaB said:
Also interesting to know which town or city has the best average solar production in SA.
Eish i thought Upington where cooking on gas but they are cooking on solar🤣
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35 minutes ago, maxxis said:That is a mistake i regret a lot.
Might just get this one fixed and sell the pair. Replace with something reputable.When I installed everyone was shouting "HUBBLE HUBBLE HUBBLE"
Should have listened to installer and gone with Pylons.Yeah i agree pylons much better choice Freedom Won or Greenrich also great
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Everyone in Jozi is having cold weather 😝 nice 26° in CPT today with fairly good solar production. I flew down to Jhb yesterday and boy was it cold happy to be back in Cpt today. One of my clients in Nigel Gauteng phoned me at 11h45 and he just wanted to know if it is normal to get 410w from his 13kwp array. He said it is raining and thick clouds😅
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Do yourself a favor go and read the rewievs on Hellopeter about clients complaints. In the past i said i would not install Hubble ever again and i still stand with that decision, once bitten twice shy.
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9 hours ago, Voltageza said:
His essential load never reaches 3000w.
@3000w ac you draw 69 amps from Bsl battery that is capable of 100amps discharge. My question will be what is the Soc of the battery when this happens? The battery can not be fully charged if you can't support < 3000 watts otherwise you have a faulty battery bms disconnecting. Check the battery voltage when this happens. Do you have remote monitoring(VRM) or any kind of monotoring software connected to this system
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1 hour ago, PsyCLown said:
I just noticed that at night when there isn't much happening with the inverter that the DC and AC temps on my SNA5000 inverters gets pretty hot... Like in the 60's and during the day when they're running and there is PV or draw from the battery the fans kick in and run constsntly and then the temperatures are far lower (high 30's or low 40's).
This is quite puzzling and if this is the case I'd then prefer for the fans to always be running even if they're just running at a very low speed when there is not much load on the inverter.
It's a bit frustrating that one is not able to enable this or take better control of the fans.
I also set my fan speed to 100% a while back but did not notice any difference.
Pm me tonight at 19h00 i will suggest a solution that i have implemented successfully pertaining to the Luxpower heat problem.
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1 hour ago, Pho3niX90 said:
Stumbled across this, R1915 for Jinko 555w
Good price no argument there, but they state they have 1829 panels in stock but you have to pre-order availability 6 Nov bit confusing.
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22 minutes ago, Pho3niX90 said:Since originally posting this, I have read more into the Solis S6, they seem a like a much better bang for much, so will be going with this.
Regarding the panels, I have found Longis 555w, although my annual predicted generation is lower, the ROI is 5% higher.
The longi's I haven't found a proper spec sheet for yet, but seems they are rated at the following:
Input Voltage: 42.10V
Output Current: 13.19A
So these should be fine. Thank you for spotting this.Data sheet for Longi 555w below.
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On 2023/10/24 at 8:01 AM, spotity said:
Hi All,
So I have a weird new issue - yesterday a branch fell onto my electric fence at my front gate which caused one of the wires to move from the bobbin, causing a short to the stay. The fence remained on, however my earth leakage tripped in the main DB and continued to trip.
I only figured out later that it was the fence that was causing the trip. The only way I can see this happening is through the gate DB board (which is plastic). The gate DB has 3 breakers - 1x 32 A main breaker, 1x16A gate breaker and 1x16A breaker for the wall lights. The conduit does run along side the electric fence, although its plastic.
Any ideas?
This should be a step by step approach and nothing taken for granted. Disconnect the mains input from the energizer then try and reset the earth leakage. You need to Disconnect the live and neutral from the energizer not just switching off the mcb that feeds the energizer. If the earth leakage resets then the energizer is not the culprit. Same recipe above for the gate motor and then the lights. If the sub db(gate) main breaker is a double pole ( isolator) disconnecting L and N you can isolate it there without disconnecting wires and then check if earth leakage will reset.
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1 hour ago, FixAMess said:
Do the standards require green and red or just indicators (of any colour) ?
I have seen all sorts of colours on installs, red,green,amber,white so the regs don't specify colours just needs to be visible and as @Virwatindicated correct labelling.
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9 hours ago, Grotti said:
Good day, can anyone please tell me what the legal requirements are with regards to the green and red LED indicators which I believe (as a non specialist) should be part of a solar installation. Can the installer decide NOT to install these indicators?
Thank you
Yes as per Sans regs the LED indicators is a must including labelling of each indicator. You are correct it should be part of any solar installation. The installation will not pass a COC without these indicators and db labelling so installers do not have a choice.
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10 hours ago, Calli said:
Any suggestions on make and Amps of the EMI Filter
I have previously use this EMI filter from Digikey on sensitive medical equipment. Get the 40 amp version.
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Average labor charge between 8k-12k depending on system size. What exactly is included in the 10k. Difficult to determine if 10k is within reason without knowing the etc? Solar mounting kit R800 per panel. How many panels and is it included in the 10k?