Antony

Hi all, My Efergy no longer works and to be honest it was never really reliable. I am looking for something to monitor the electricity consumption of the flat. I need something that can give me an accumulative value, either by hour / day / week or month. Any suggestions please, also I am on a budget.

Where? Been looking and not one seems to have stock. In fact I don't mind DIY, in that I will assemble...

Very limited so normal acid, with option change later. Panels should be bare minimum to provide charge carry load for laptop and internet

Now to try and find one without having to wait 6 weeks

Nope, I just asked. I see the supplier has stock at least.

If I may ask, why the Must inverter?

Looks like the "Plus" variant only?

This is looking more and more like a load shedding Plus solution. I can run my home office and CCTV off this. I have solar geyser and gas. I may just consider the fridge if and when necessary.

Surely I could connect solar panels to this to charge batteries and / or run my load? Priority on running load? Or is this Inverter not "clever enough" Reading the manual now, and it looks like it can be connected to PV...

4-6 weeks, yikes

This stage 6 is going to be too long for basic systems. Not enough time to recharge

Did you see one somewhere that I could look at?

how does the geewiz compare with the Axpert VM2? https://www.geewiz.co.za/long-run-ups-inverter-battery/123033-geewiz-2400va-inverter-trolley-2x-100ah-batteries-8-hour-battery-life-kit-1440w-150-200-cycles.html?sfdr_ptcid=2961_617_657962698&sfdr_hash=ba129d5de1b4751e429086393c6b1593&gclid=CjwKCAjw4JWZBhApEiwAtJUN0Iw5NMklJR9ByE3a_2ElLmP45onN5Zu_9yi9PuIOOUp8mZOAczCt6hoCPfcQAvD_BwE I forgot to mention I need to power my PC as well, no good having internet without a PC 😉

Hi @Singh GPhow many cycles have those batteries been through? They are generally only 150-200? Oh and is this still available?

Lots of valuable advice here, thanks guys

@Christoff83 I also want to know. I don't want to spend more than 6k. Just need to keep my Internet and of with 1 or 2 lights going

Ah, perfect, thanks zsde

Hi gurus, Long time since I posted a q. Are there any "tools" available to calculate the optimum angle for the best performance for winter and summer in Gauteng?

where did you get the heatsink paste

Please excuse if this is in the wrong channel. My underfloor heating load is causing me a lot of problems in that if they are all on, my load is already 11kW. If the geyser or any other heavy load kicks in, my feed trips, I have a 13.8kW limit. What I am thinking is that if I had a timer/rely that has 1 input and 3 outputs, I can "program" the relay to switch between each circuit every x minutes, reducing the load drastically, but still having enough time to heat the respective rooms. Any ideas?

I have a non return valve in my system and I am having problems, the hot water is reverse thermosyphoning, I say this because evening, and late evening I notice the manifold temp sensor is always about 1 or 2 degrees less than the geyser, even early mornings, and the geyser temp is no longer "constant" it drops rather quickly. I pick this up because I observed a drastic rise in my electricity usage. I keep daily readings, so I quickly picked this up. I have a loop in the outlet, but what I see in this drawing is that my inlet into the geyser, cold water, is also the feed to the manifold collector, the total opposite of what is proposed here. The hot water from the manifold feeds into the hotwater outlet of the geyser. Now I am uncertain if I should get a plumber to redo all the piping...

I have had a 200L solar geyser for 3 years now, in summer it is great, I get well over 70 degrees, barring the rainy days, but in winter it sucks, I have even tilted the tubes up to get the best angle towards the sun. Added to that there are 3 long haired fems in the house, who don't understand the concept of a 6 minute shower, they learn the "cold" way, if you get my meaning. I also have a gas geyser servicing the kitchen and guest bathroom (shower), and I use it everyday ;-) , besides the odd day when the wind blows in the wrong direction and blows the "flame" out it works great. I would highly recommend a gas geyser, as long as it is outside but also sheltered, you will not have any problems.

Yes it resistive, already installed (actually it works great) and from Eskom

That is the accumulated load for 4 rooms

Good day all, Its been a long time since I last posted here. Hope everyone is well, under the circumstances here in SA. I seem to be exceeding my MAX load of 60A (13.8kW) lately, with the underfloor heating, late night geyser top up, kettle, etc. My under floor heating alone reaches 11kW, add the geyser top up and blink.... off goes my power for a few seconds and comes back on, but because my "intelligent" thermostats switch off automatically when the power goes off, the load is instantly reduced and the power comes back on. I'm wondering just how all these very large houses with underfloor heating to the hilt manage their power loads? warms regards from a cold Gauteng. Antony