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Grubscrew

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  1. Hi this is what I could find.
  2. Thanks, 2 batteries connected in parallel. Master battery only dip switch 3 on and on the slave battery nothing. Network Cables to inverter and then from master out to slave in. Via the can/485ports I have attached what I can see.
  3. I also have a Deye with 2 Dyness BXC51100 batteries. I get almost all of the info except for the SOH. On the inverter it only shows the SOC?
  4. I do wonder how things will look like in 3 months. Very keen to expand my existing setup, but if the prices might drop further by December I would rather wait.
  5. Looking at the picture on lifetide's website and if I squint it looks the same other than the battery terminal covers.
  6. https://www.inverter-warehouse.co.za/collections/jinko-solar/products/jinko-solar-panel-tiger-555w-mono-facial Pretty sure I saw a facebook advert for someone doing the same panels for R1900
  7. Busy education myself. Saw a few videos about the optimal way of connecting batteries in parallel with bus bars and equal length cables being the best option. But I am assuming now with batteries with master slave setup. And BMS that allows this and the Coms cable setup between the batteries a setup like this should be fine: since the bms will make sure that no one battery is working more that the other battery and the same for the charging scenario?
  8. So little more than 2 weeks after getting a solar system. 8kw Deye SUN-8KSG01LP1-EU SA Version 2 x 5.12kwh Dyness Bx51100 8 x 550w JA Solar panels Great position on the roof, north facing. I am actually very lucky when I look at the some of the challenges others have with their roofs. Even the other side of pitch of the roof gets good winter sun for most of the day. Average day after playing around with the settings. Lowest SOC allowed in the settings for the battery is 40%, this is just play safe for loadshedding. Grid Charge to 100% from 5pm to 9pm, usually by 5pm the battery is 90-95%. Then from 9pm we start to draw from the battery again. Got a 2kw element for the geyser and a geyserwise timer for it, set it on to 65deg. Run time is 9am to 3pm and 4am to 5am. Occasionally if we do use a lot of hot water, I might manually run the geyser for an hour. I also have the pool pump (.75kw) on a timer 10am to 3pm. Some random thoughts, questions and ponderings: So looking at the NOCT values of my panels I am currently hitting almost 100% of that, when will I start to get closer to the STC values or is STC values unicorn stuff? Either way I am thinking of getting 6 more panels later, considering that I still have another MPPT open, I don't have to use the same make of panels? A third battery isn't necessary at the momnet, but it would be nice, for those cloudy days. My average load without the power-hungry stuff seems to be about 400-500w/h to 100-200w/h when we go to bed. So, in theory if we play it nice, we can be mostly of grid on a sunny day. Otherwise in sunny months we are in for about 85/90% saving on out power bills.

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