Colind

Hi everyone, Does anyone have a link to the manufacturers website? I can only find links to distributors.

I have used your sheet as a base and done a similar thing for panels. Hopefully useful to someone.

Hello everyone. For those of you like me who are looking to compare the various panel spec sheets, here is one i have put together from the data sheets for the panel manufacturers and size range that I am interested in. Feel free to add to it if you have additional info. THe sheet has info for Canadian Solar, JA Solar and Jinko Solar panels from 570 to 630 watts. Solar Panel Comparison -Canadian-JA-Jinko.xlsx

@WildM thank you, this is brilliant. I am also trying to sift through all of the options and spec sheets. You have saved me hours of work! 😀

Hi Everyone, Thank you for all the replies and the info this is making a lot more sense now. I am still deciding on which inverter, but will likely be Sunsynk or Deye. @Cassie your setup sounds pretty much like what I am looking to install, I will send you an email for your diagram and compare to what I want to put in. Again, thanks for your help! Colin

Hello everyone, As the section suggests I am new to this solar game. I have looked through the posts on the forum and I am not finding the question I have, but if it has already been answered my apologies. I am looking for some advice around the installation of a hybrid inverter and the split of the essential and non essential load. I am looking for an installation of a hybrid inverter that will supply PV and battery backup power to the bulk of my home and also supply PV power to my geyser and stove when there is generation capacity available. When there is no PV generation available, the installation must supply battery backup to the house and use the grid to power the geyser and stove, or have no supply if there is load shedding. I am intending to split the DB boards to divide out the essential and non-essential loads. Reading the information available online and general discussion with installers I have understood that this is possible by splitting the loads as essential and non-essential through the inverter as shown roughly in the diagram below. One of the installers however has said that there is only a single output from the inverter; that my understanding of the connection is not correct and that the inverter connections are as shown below. The inverter then uses battery power to supply both loads if the grid fails. My questions are: Which one of these configurations are correct? If the inverter does have two outputs as shown in the first diagram, is the non-essential load included in the capacity limit of the inverter. i.e. if it is a 5 kw inverter and the geyser element draws 4 kw, does that only leave 1 kw to supply the essential load when the geyser is heating up? If there is only one output as in the second diagram how is the split between the loads managed to use PV power when available and grid when there is no PV capacity for the non essential load so that the battery only supplies the essential load when there is no PV available? Is there a signal output from the inverter that can be used to drive an automatic change-over switch for the non-essential load between inverter supply and direct grid supply when there is no PV generation? The answers are possibly not quite as simple as I have described above, but I would be grateful to get some more information about the wiring options.