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Hi @Bobster. Thank you so much I really need to do some homework how best to optimise etc Thank you everyone too for your responses. Very helpful indeed. @Carl Anthony I have 5 panels. 575 watts each. before i used to use around 750units a month in summer and almost 1000 units a month in winter. I used to manually switch between Eskom and Inverter. Then the installer came and made a setting change on the inverter so that It shows eskom is sending power and triggers battery when there is loadshedding. So now what I do is around 6am I drop the AC In switch only during the day and then switch the AC IN switch back up around 5pm. I just have a feeling that something on my setting is not correct because Ideally I want to use sun during the day, use Eskom when I iron clothes as that pulls a lot of power, use some eskom in the evening and try to use battery early hours of the morning until the sun is up again to charge battery and power the house. But I only have a 4.8kva battery and I don't have enough at the amount to increase my battery to 10kva. I suspect i need a 10kva battery to keep be going through the night without eskom. but any recommendations would help. I just thought I would see savings at the moment.

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Hi @Bobster. Thank you so much I really need to do some homework how best to optimise etc Thank you everyone too for your responses. Very helpful indeed. @Carl Anthony I have 5 panels. 575 watts each. before i used to use around 750units a month in summer and almost 1000 units a month in winter. I used to manually switch between Eskom and Inverter. Then the installer came and made a setting change on the inverter so that It shows eskom is sending power and triggers battery when there is loadshedding. So now what I do is around 6am I drop the AC In switch only during the day and then switch the AC IN switch back up around 5pm. I just have a feeling that something on my setting is not correct because Ideally I want to use sun during the day, use Eskom when I iron clothes as that pulls a lot of power, use some eskom in the evening and try to use battery early hours of the morning until the sun is up again to charge battery and power the house. But I only have a 4.8kva battery and I don't have enough at the amount to increase my battery to 10kva. I suspect i need a 10kva battery to keep be going through the night without eskom. but any recommendations would help. I just thought I would see savings at the moment.

I had solar installed about mid May. Winter i didnt see any difference as yet. My geyser is outside though and not inside my ceiling. I need to replace my geyser blanket as well. Let me do that and check the meter during a week. I think I also need assistance with my inverter settings. I suspect something is not right there. I also do the same try to make use of sunlight as much as possible and keep tv, fridges for the night. Any recommendations for best settings for luxpower?

Hi All Hope you are well. I had a question. How do you know if we are saving once solar is installed. I am not seeing changes on my electricity bill. My geyser is still on eskon but I have installed a timer to control when my geyser is switched on and switched off. I have a 5kva inverter and 4.8kva battery. I run the house on solar during the day (switching back to eskom when using high wattage appliances like an iron or running multiple appliances at once when need to). Kind regards Deepa

Note as well that eskom doesn't kick it when it's supposed to

Apologies. See attached specs. Not able to get hold of my installer at the moment. Last he said was the guy who knew the app and set it up has now disappeared. So I am checking all avenues in terms of recommended settings etc. Also can the battery fcc be changed? Why would it drop all of a sudden

Hi All Hope you are well. I need some assistance on the luxpower inverter settings. I was told that eskom is supposed to show on the inverter and then will not show when there is loadshedding. However I don't see this. I was also told that my settings on the app is that Eskom should kick in when a certain voltage is reached. Lately I also noticed on my battery the FCC has dropped to 95.1AH. Can anyone help me with what is the correct settings for my inverter and the app? I am really struggling to get this to work correctly. Thank you