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I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but I’m having a hard time to use the city of Cape Town website to be able to register my inverter so what I’ve tried to do so far , I’ve registered on the coct portal and applied for energy services once I was approved I saw the house address wasn’t showing on the profile under energy services , I called the number on the site and basically it came down to that the house is on a trust and I need to register it as a business ( so I’m told ) I’ve sent everything on the website but it was rejected , and I knew it would be rejected because on the online form it was asking me for business registration number etc which isn’t applicable it’s been a few months since my last attempt to register it , does anyone know how I should do it ? side note I do have a engineer that will be doing the process for me , but he says he needs a proxy and to apply for a proxy I need to do it on the energy service tab but again like I said my house isn’t listed any advice is appreciated

@JayMardern thanks so much , and yes I have 5 AM-5 Hubble batteries , I’ll ask my installer to update it

Hi everyone , I’m new to having a solar inverter a quick question , does anyone know why I’m having this spikes in my SOC chart seems to be going 10% up then back down then a while later the same thing my usage during those times isnt really high , anyone know if this is something to worry about ? Or how to correct this ?

@Sidewinder I took that this morning yes , before sunrise , hopefully later the weather clears up and I’ll get a picture when it’s not raining , if not then tomorrow so I can get that sorted and figure out how the PV are set up @GreenFields I’ll set that max charge to 150A this afternoon when I get home from work and let you know how that goes Thansk for y’alls help , really do appreciate it

I definitely need to figure out what’s using so much , but bare in mind I only figured that I’m using this much a few days ago , so now I’m switching things off to see what I can do to reduce

I don’t charge with the grid , only with solar , but where do I find the charge settings for charging from grid ? As I only see 1 settings for overall charge

I’m uploading the pictures of the screens @GreenFields and to be honest I don’t understand the whole 40a charge because that’s the first thing I wanted to change but my installer said no it’s not allowed , and he said that it should even be lower than 40a and when the inspector comes to register is with the city he might even turn it down for me 😳, so that I’m definitely confused on

@GreenFields it’s it cool if I upload those pictures tomorrow then you can have a look at them and yes I am charging at 40a that’s the first thing I checked and asked my installer and he told me I mustn’t make it higher as the council breaker in only 40a so the load will be to much also the weather report on the app is always wrong , I’m using solar man business , and I’m situated in Cape Town the location on the app is also set to Cape Town and the weather is most days if not everyday wrong

@Bobster. so that’s the thing the people at home are going to be using electric mostly before 7:30am and from 5pm because everyone is at work during the day but to name the things we use , mostly TVs a computer and in winter the geyser at night as not everyday it’s warm in the evenings , it is a solar geyser so the only time the geyser uses power is at 4am and through the day it uses the sun to stay warm looking at the graphs it seems the house consumes 1-1.5kw/h with no1 home , so the fridges , freezers , internet , CCTV the stove is gas and we hardly use the oven the pool also haven’t used it since the inverter install because I want to figure out how long the battery will last my main concern is how to get more power out my PV , I’ll upload a picture here for you to see how the PV layout is and north is to the left I’ve draw on the picture @Scorp007 I know you asked direction , so hopefully this helps you as well , but how it’s connected I’m not sure , I just know I have 10 on the one side and 6 on the other side

Thanks for your replies @Bobster. and @Sidewinder … Ok so, I’m not so technical when it comes to inverters but I’m trying to learn and figure it out , so bare with me while I answer your questions to the best of my knowledge so this was yesterdays reading , as you can see my batteries only lasted till about 11:30 the only time I use the most load is in the mornings at about 4am when the geyser goes on , but that doesn’t count because by that time my batteries are drained and I’m using from the grid Also I’m not sure how the PVs are setup if there a way for me to check ? And not sure if this info will help but I have 10 PV on one side of the roof and 6PV on the adjacent side what could my solution be ? Get more panels ? I recently had this installed so if that’s the case it has to wait abit , but my goal is to go off grid thanks for reading

Hi all , I’m pretty new to having a solar inverter so my question is how many panels would it take to charge my setup ? Some info , I have a 8kw deye hybrid inverter , 16x 550w PV and 5x 5kw Hubble batteries right now when checking the status of charging the batteries through the PV it’s showing between 2.5-3kw from 10am but I find that it doesn’t have enough time to charge when sunsets at 5ish ( it’s winter now so it’s early) . I thought getting 16PV would be enough , and I get that I’m not going to use 100% of its capability but at this point I’m not even getting close to 50% , roughly 35-38% at its peak When sun is out anyone can help me understand this better ? It’s there settings to change or do I need more panels ?