GerritW74

Morning peoples Yesterday i did some digging and found out that Voltronic (the manufacturers of rebranded inverters like Mecer, Kodak, RCT and more) released an upgrade to WatchPower/SolarPower named Energy-Mate. Voltronic Power News. Available on Google Store. It is still buggy (spelling errors etc.), but it is MUCH better with usable graphs. It uses the same login details as WatchPower so your whole history is retained. You don't have intelligent DB control, but you can manage inverter settings and have decent feedback

Hi All... My 5c worth I have had a solar borehole pump for over 12 years. I am actually on my second one since lightning took out the first controller box and last year the pump motor's bearings started to fail. It is a completely separate off-grid solution. It was the smallest one I could get at the time (50m head and 3000L/H from a dedicated 185W panel). It has served me so well that earlier this year when a hose was left open and we had to start the 3-phase pump in another borehole, the water from that hole had gone stale. I also don't have a pressure pump, since the water is pumped directly into a Jojo standing 6M high, and all the plumbling was done with 22mm piping. (I had to remove some flow restrictors from taps and showerheads) I live on a farm out of town and the pump supplied 2 households and 6 horses.