murphydrew

Okay - as was the case with most of you, my CT was installed on the wrong pins too!
They were installed on 1 and 2 instead of 3 and 4. 

The guy moved them and instantly the house consumption showed up when ZERO EXPORT TO CT was clicked. 

He also says now the PV should send excess power to non-essentials if battery is full.

Just need the Cape Town rain to clear up and then I can see if thats happening. 

Massive relief!

Hi there,
No. Your panels can and should (if export to CT is set up correctly) provide surplus energy to your non-essentials (pool pump and geyser in your case). And your pool pump and geyser will not be supplied by your inverter during load shedding.
So the "ideal" scenario you describe is absolutely possible, your installer is not correct.
Unfortunately I'm in the same boat of trying to get this resolved! Load to CT ticked in the mean time.

I figured out how to get the battery to show on the home page dashboard!!!
You need to go into Plant Info and change the System type to Storage instead of Self consumption. Click yes and then done and it will then show up.
 
Stoked!

Your inverter won't trip if the geyser is on the non-essential load. If it is making your inverter trip, that means it is connected as one of your essential loads. Or possibly it's connected as a Smart Load, but that is something different to the non-essentials.
Also, if you've got 6x540W panels connected, it's probably not ideal to put the geyser on Smart Load. Somewhat little peak solar relative to the geyser's demand. You'll probably keep draining the battery on warming up the geyser half the time anyway, or it may too often just not run. I'd consider just leaving it on non-essentials. Just my 2c.

Please do. My guy is coming today but seems to be more clued up on sunsynk systems unfortunately