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  1. Hi to all. Need help please. My sunsynk is not accepting my new times in the settings section. I have entered new times as per normal to allow the battery to drain at set intervals. Like to keep a certain % during the night and set it to drop every few hours. Always worked, yet now for last 2 weeks or so, it does not accept the new times, keeping the old time schedule in its memory. All help appreciated. Cheers.
  2. Morning Bobster, please let me know if this has solved my problem - Goodwe not charging batteries unless Eskom power is present. Fingers X this patch will work, otherwise I sit with 2 perfectly functioning inverters I cannot use. Thanks. LLTHB
  3. Hi. At one guest house we preheat the electric geysers from the inverter between 10h00 and 15h00, then the power to the geysers goes off. 65Deg hot water then flows through a Paloma Hybrid gas geyser. First person showers, the gas does not even come on. When the 3rd person showers and the temp drops below 55 Deg, the gas geyser slowly comes to life and we use gas until the next day when the solar heats up the geysers again. This system works so well for us.
  4. Had such poor service from the agents, useless actually. Removed a perfectly good working inverter and replaced with a Sunsynk 8. I believe there is a patch available or still coming out for the Goodwe, but I could not wait. Really a lesson in how to piss off your clients and kill your brand. If I was in this industry, I would monitor a site like this and send clients with issues a message discussing contact and solution problems. Poor show. We had no Eskom in the Karoo area I live for 12 days. You think you are prepared for it, I can assure you, a 12 day blackout makes you rethink your entire strategy. And no, I cant just go off grid - 9 geysers, 7 ovens, 14 air cons plus loads of pool pumps etc etc.
  5. Hi to all. My heading explains my problem. The Goodwe is 5 years old and it used to charge the batteries during load shedding. About 2 years ago they did a firmware upgrade and now the unit no longer chargers the batteries if Eskom is off. The inverter supplies power to the appliances etc, but lets say I am only using 1000 watts on a bright sunny day and it could make 5000 watts and charge the batteries, it no longer does this. The agents are about as effective as the ashtray on my motorbike and just speak goobledegook rubbish. Anyone, anyone anyone? Thanks in advance. Cheers.
  6. Hi Thank you for the reply, it is appreciated. Yes, it is an ES series unit. 100% sure the unit is in General Mode. General Mode is supposed to only use excess power to charge the batteries. And it used to do this for 4 years without missing a beat. But now suddenly it starts charging the battery just after midnight. I see Goodwe have updated their manuals and it looks like the mode names have changed and they now speak about time based charging parameters that can be set like a Sunsynk unit. I will look into this further. We have had lots of low power issues from Eskom lately, whole town going down to 1 phase only 110v or so, in the Karoo the wind and Eskom are not friends I can assure you. Cheers.
  7. Hi. About 4 weeks ago my Goodwe suddenly started to charge my batteries from midnight onwards. So, running in General Mode - batteries set to deplete to 50 % of charge when Eskom power is on. Sun goes down at 19h00, batteries on 100%. Slowly they draw down to 50% and stay there. Now, here is the problem - they should just stay at my chosen point of 50% until the sun shines and PV makes power, excess power made will now charge the batteries. BUT - now suddenly the Goodwe is charging the batteries from 00h01 each day. So now I have to buy Eskom to charge the batteries. Have Goodwe changed something, do I need a firmware update etc? Anyone else have this issue? Thanks.
  8. Hi. I have 8 geysers and am looking for an option to see water temp and energy use. Prefer after market goods that I can install myself, expensive to get sparky in to rewire 8 geysers. Need to be able to see geyser temp and current draw on a phone app. Cheers.
  9. Hi. My own fault. Plugged to many hot trays into the system during a long load shed. Now flashing error code 07 and will not work, have left unplugged and no load for hours, will not auto reset. How do I reset this unit? Thanks. LLTHB
  10. Good day to all. I had 2 Goodwe 5Kva inverters in 2 of my guest houses. Recently replaced one with a Sunsynk unit as we needed to add in a generator. Both Goodwe units used to charge the batteries during load shedding. I always new even if batteries were low, come load shedding for 2 hours the batteries would be fully charged as we can only draw small amounts of power on the "essential loads" rail on the DB board. But I see Goodwe have made some changes to the app and to PV Master. Now the batteries are not charging during a power out, and to make matters worse, when the power comes back on, all the power made by the inverter goes to geysers, air cons etc and the batteries are simply last in the queue. Is any one else experiencing these issues? I dont think finger trouble is the cause of this, any input will be valued. Cheers. Howard.
  11. Hi. Am I correct in assuming the best day for solar will be the 21st Dec? Is this not the day where we get the most sun? Does angle of the panels come into play at all? Thanks in advance. Cheers.
  12. I have just written to Sunsynk. Hi Keith. Answer looks so simple, but it appears that more info is needed. I can source a 200v 4Kw unit, but it pumps out 22 amps. Can your unit handle the 22 amps in an MPPT? Is it not possible for Sunsynk to say: The following brands and model numbers of wind turbines will work with a Sunsynk 5Kw inverter: Brand XYZ, Model AB1, Version 4 Brand FXS, Model 11 etc etc, you catch my drift. We are not asking for a recommendation, just a simple what actually works and what does not work. Thanks. Howard.
  13. Thanks YellowTapemeasure. Ok, so those are the specs for the Sunsynk 5Kw unit - 200 volts and max 400 kW. But now, where do I purchase this wind turbine - who stocks a reputable make, has experince with them etc. Cheers. Howard.
  14. Hello to all. Ok, we are in the Karoo, lots of sun and lots of wind. Currently we have a Goodwe 5kw unit, works a bomb. We have double the amount of panels that we should have and we manually turn them on and off as the sun moves, our house is in an H shape and is a solar collectors nightmare or a dream for us as we can now harvest sun from the east, the north and the west. But we cannot add wind into our mix with the Goodwe. We have been told to go Sunsynk as they are the only units that can be programmed to take wind as well as solar. Our plan is to order 2 Sunsynk 5Kw units and run them in parallel. All so far is good and clear, we can move the old Goodwe to a new property we just purchased so incur no loss. But now, and here I really need expert advice, I want to dedicate 3 of the 4 MPPTs to solar and one to wind. Firstly is this doable, is it feasible??? How do we do it and where oh where can we get a wind gennie that will work in this layout. So in my dreams I have sun in summer from 05h30 to 19h00. Wind comes up at 14h00 and blows to 24h00. It is this wind that will be my addition, as with the new system I could just leave all the panels on all the time and not have to manually isolate them. Even 2.4Kw of wind for 10 hours a day will add up to a lot of power. In summer we run 7 geysers and about 9 air cons at night. Would be so nice to add the extra 24Kw of wind power. Appreciate any advice and say thank you in advance. Cheers. Howard.
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