Hi Everyone,
I want to upgrade my Solar system and it's just not making sense to me.
At the moment I have a five-star 48v, 8kw inverter. It's connected to 9 x 540W (Tier1) Mono Crystalline Panels and a 10Kwh Narada Lithium battery. 4 Pannels show direction north and 5 west ... It works okay but I wanted to upgrade the system while the lack of load-shedding has driven prices down. When I look at my SolarAssistant it peaks at power of about 2k as seen below. When I asked if I could add more solar panels I was told that this unit could only take 6000W of panels. If it peaks at 2000W doesn't that mean I could add 9 or 19 more pannels ? Now they are advising me to upgrade to a sunsync before I add more panels ( and that may have its own merits) but could someone help me make sense of this?
Specs :
FiveStar 8.5KVA 6.5KW WIFI 48v Hybrid Solar MPPT Inverter:
Model: FS-1008
Item Code:WO8548 WiFi
Color: Blue and White Operating Temperature Range: 0-55°C
Inverter Mode:
Rated Power: 8500VA/6500W
DC Input: 48VDC.127A
Grid Output: 230VAC, 50/60Hz.23.9A
AC Charger Mode:
Grid Input: 230VAC 50/60Hz,38.5A
DC Output: 54VDC,
Max 80A, Default 30A
AC Output: 230VAC, 50/60Hz, 23.9A
Solar Charger Mode:
Rated Power: 6000W
Max charger:120A
Nominal operating voltage:240VDC
Max. Solar Voltage(VOC):500VDC
MPPT Voltage range: 120-450VDC
Notes: