SilverTongue

Thanks so much, I will go for another battery then. The company suggested 1 or maybe 2 of the Hubble 5kW am2 batteries because there’s a shop here in Cape Town which currently have them on special for R20k each, also saw they have the Hubble am5 for about R2000 more, do you know if there’s a difference, if one is better than the other. Is the Hubble batteries good or would you go for something else? I saw you get sunsynk batteries as well although they a bit more pricey, would they be better to use with the sunsynk inverter?

So the heat pump isn’t installed yet, it’s still sealed in its box. It says it max power usage is 4.06kw, I suspected it would be to big to run on the battery so I would be fine running it through AC power only but if it can’t then I would be willing to not have it installed at all. I have a hot water solar system so we don’t use a geyser for hot water at all, I also have induction stove top which don’t seem to use much power at all and can run from my current inverter and battery and even from the pannels quite fine. The most amps I’ve seen the inverter show was around 34a when it was running house and charging battery but normally it will only show around 12 to 21a if battery isn’t charging. My biggest problem with current system is that it trips the double pole circuit breakers if I have both groups of panels switched on between 10:00 and 16:00 on a sunny day, between those times I switch the 1 group of panels off and the other group charge battery and run house without problems. It’s almost like the breakers heat up and then trip because once they trip I can’t just switch them on again immediately, usually takes about 10 minutes before they can be switched on again almost like they having to cool down. Also should there be breakers on both the positive and negative lines from the solar panels? anyway thanks so much for all the advice so far, I really appreciate it. Ive seen some videos on the sunsynk inverters and definitely want to get one to replace the sunmagic, if it’s on the list, I will check later if it is. Now I’m just wondering if it’s necessary to replace my current 5kW N Energy battery with a Hubble 5kW battery, since the battery is not 6 months old yet, haven’t even used 200 cycles yet. thank you #Sorry for the new account, when I posted from the other account it said it couldn’t post from this as I had to wait for confirmation so I tried posting original message as guest and it created a 2nd account, but I’m the same person who posted the original message.. Sorry if I caused any confusion.