HannesS

Hi, I'm one of the 17% lucky ones in SA that does not get load-shedded, think the reason is because of a big hospital not to far away from us. Over the years we've made big gains to reduce our electricity usage with a solar geyser and new modern energy efficient appliances. However with the threat of stage 8 load shedding we decided its time to invest in a solar solution. Two weeks ago we signed with a well known solar installer (will not name now but later for full review) to install 3.6kW solar panels with a 5 kW hybrid inverter and a 5 kWh battery, so if everything goes well by end of June 2023 our system will be installed, getting permission from CoCT to switch it on will be another story. The biggest headache so far has been the layout of the panels, although have enough space on the north side, 3 giant trees makes that we do not get lots of sun during the winter so we are going with a east-west split. This means lower production but hopefully the production will be for longer during the day. https://www.opensolar.com/ is really very helpful making these type of decisions.

Can you mount these batteries up side down? reason I'm asking is I want to mount my battery above my inverter. The inverter will be eye level with battery above and it would be easier to reach the battery switches if upside down.