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How weird is this! Mine also stopped on the 12th Dec 2024... I cant get the Wifi Dongle to power back on. Tried restarting the inverter a few times... nothing works. Any solutions for this yet?

Hi Guys, I've finally completed the moving of the panels and I am glad to report that facing them North has made a HUGE difference. Just to Reiterate... I have 8 x 560w Seraphim Panels. I've moved 4 to a North Facing roof about 35m away from the inverter. (PV2) I do loose a little bit of production here... I guess this is because of the cable length. I've moved 4 onto a North Facing frame just above the inverter. (PV1) Pics for stats attached. These were taken now... 09:58.

Thanks for the info guys. I have decided to build a frame over the awning to hold 4 panels. Then the other 4 on a N facing roof I have which should be about 35m of cable. From the info you guys have provided I think this is the best route. My neighbor has given me permission to trim the trees down. So I think that will be a big plus for the afternoon time until like 4pm. Il post some stats after the change is done. Should be a few weeks or so. I feel like this is going to make them perform optimally now. Thank you guys.

@PsyCLown yeah my worry is that I would loose some production power though the length of the cables. Definitely not more than 50m worth of cable. Between 30 and 50m probably. Do you think that would loose much? Yeah Il be happy to cover the cost to trim it down... the same tree is actually starting to pull on my fibre line as well.

yes. my other option would be to build a frame onto the Awning... fit the 4 panels there and ask politely to chop down my neighbours tree that blocks the sun from about 2pm now in winter. That way I would also use very very little cable.

I could prob fit 4 on my NNE facing roof but then I would be using a lot of cable... Would the gains I can expect from that be diminished too much by cable length?

ok cool. that makes sense. I do have an awning that I recently put on (pic attached) where I could possibly build a frame that will face North... and move the 4 x SE facing panels onto that. It will save a lot in DC cable as well since the Inverter is just under the Awning. In the pic attached you can see the 4 x NW facing panels about to get hit by some shade now (2pm) (neighbors tree)

Hi There Guys, Just have my solar setup now for a week... I have the following components installed: Deye 5 kw Hybrid Inverter 1 x Dyness Battery Lithium Ion 5.12KWH 51.2V 100Ah 8 x Seraphim 560W 144 Cell SIV Series Solar Panels Installed in KZN So I only realized after installation that I can only use about 50% of the battery wattage since its a 0.5c... Which sucks but I understand why that is the case. I also only realized after installation that the Solar panels rating is not the rating I would achieve under normal conditions. I did not have a great roof that was North Facing that I could use so I initially got all 8 Panels installed on a SE facing roof (Pic attached) which gets the morning sun quite nicely. After doing that I noticed that my chimney would cast a shadow over 1 whole panel at about 1:30pm which caused the production to take a big knock... (Pics attached) My installer was quite helpful and came over the weekend to move the panels. I now have 4 on the SE side away from the Chimney shadow and 4 on a NW facing roof. All 8 are still on 1 string. Roof pic attached. (The circled side shows the SE side) The second Pic shows two red markings for the current 4 & 4 panels placement. So the normal power generation for each panel says ~422w... I am generating a peak of about 2.24kW at about 11:30am today. Its a nice clear sunny day. I cant help but feel a little disappointed with the peak production... Is this good production power for this time of year with my setup? Considering that under normal operation I should see > 3kW of production? Wondering how it will perform in Summer? Does installing 4 on SE and 4 on NW reduce production a lot? Will I need to add more Panels at some point? Sorry for all the questions... Please let me know if I've left out any info that you may need to provide more informed answers? Many thanks