Oelof

Hi Peter and James, Thank you for the informative reply. I will irrigate the garden for about 6 weeks daily before getting the water tested. That should do the trick. I think i will probably ask for advice again after the test results are back.

Hi everyone, I am in the process of having a borehole drilled, if all goes well it should be drilled in the next two to three weeks. The survey has already been done and all indications are that my property has water around 50m deep. I have already installed a 5000 tank and Zilmet 1.1 VSD pump which should work well with my solar system. I will definitely first have the water tested once the borehole is in but I would like to ask for some advise regarding the size of vessels needed and what type of media for the different contaminants, so that I know what media to buy when I get the report. I would prefer staying away from Big Blue filter as I don't want to be buying new filters every 6 - 12 months. I would rather buy 3 vessel filters if possible. I have spoken to Blue Spot and Puritech regarding a solution, Puritech advised that it is possible to only have a vessel solution and Blue Spot advised me that the smaller microns can only be filtered out by a Big Blue filter solution, so I am very unsure. I am quite handy, and I will be able to do the installation myself, if I can only understand what media to use to filter out the different contaminants? Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Oelof

Thank you very much Pieter, this helps alot.

Thanks Carl, Ive had someone come through to look for water, found a few nice spots. I am probably going to get a second opinion as well.

Hi Pieter, Thank you very much for the informative reply. Could you perhaps help with a wiring diagram of the float switch with the relay and sonof?

Thanks for the feedback🙏

Thanks for the feedback Gerhard.

Thanks, it will indeed be a 5000l tank, but it will be gound level. Is a VSD pump then the way to go?

Hi everyone, I am ready for phase two of our off grid journey... drilling a Borehole. I understand a few things will be different to a normal borehole set up because of our solar system, I wanted to ask advice because I am not 100% sure if the borehole people are offering the best solution. I was advised that we need to have two pumps, a small borehole pump, around .37kw that can fill the tank during the day and a VSD pump that will then be used to supply the house and garden. I have a few questions regarding the advice I received? Will it not be better to get a VSD pump on the borehole side to then illuminate the need for a tank? Any advice will be appreciated. Many thanks. Oelof

I dont have a separate db for the essentials, but the installer did split it somehow because the oven and geyser do go off during loadshedding. Not sure about the blue wires, its a very old house, so alot of different electricians must have worked on that db over the years. It seems I solved the issue with the spikes in power also, its not the oven as I thought. There is a unlabeled breaker in the db that is causing the surges, we have switched it off and everything in the house still works 100%. So I am not at all sure what the breaker is for, I have a sneaky suspension that its the breaker for the ancient geyser in the roof. I think it might have burst and they they just disconnected the water and never disconnected the power, and that the element inside the geyser is still working. I am just speculating, but I cant think of any other appliance that can pull 3600w. So for now I am just leaving the breaker off, the mystery remains untill I can one day get a electrician to trace that cable. Thanks for everyones help on this, much appreciated.

I was also wondering why only at night. But I am going to do what you suggest. The guys fro. AEG are also coming to have a look this week.

I have switched it off and will advise in a day or two. The oven is completely off during loadshedding.

Ok, why would the oven give random spikes of 3600w for 20-30 minutes during the evening when its not being used? Also only in the evenings, a bit weird I think.

Ok, I figured out what breaker is causing the surge. Just by luck saw another spike as it started, rushed to the DB board and the inverter, I was able to confirm which particular breaker it is because everytime I switched the breaker off the spike stopped and when I switched it back on the spike resumed. Problem was that the breaker is not labeled. Left it off and started searching the house for appliances that aren't working... Its the oven's breaker. Here is the weird part, the installer told me that the oven is off the solar, and when we have loadshedding the oven does go off. Also, the oven wasnt being used when the surge occurred. We keep it in stanby mode, so just the timer is on. But we havent used the oven in a week or two, we mainly use the airfyer. I am weirded out by this...😵‍💫 Does it mean the oven is faulty? The installer did mention something about the oven not being on earth leakage or something like that... Any advice?