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Where àre you based and what ah ? ,those things are heavy ,😜

Contact Kestrel wind turbines in Port Elizabeth they manufacture them 😜

Very neat install ,coc they are on COVID lockdown level one so relax and enjoy your electricity until next year 😜

What lead acid batteries were you using

Need a working Sunny Island 5048 ...any lying around ?

What area are you in ?

Try the kitchen cupboard accesories guys

Thanks have had a couple of offers for R11.00 / kilo ...somebody knows something I don't know 😜 The 900 amh we have got to 82% ...5 year old The 610 amh we are still play with ...12 years ...let's see where we go. 😅

48 batteries X 40 kg xR9.00/kg =R17280.00 sappose a deposit on one lithium battery ??

Contact Kalo Yan from SolarMD they are battery manufacturers in SA . Kalo is very knowledgeable with SMA products and is always willing to help ! ...our SMA member is always out of town .... maybe out of country . Problem is that SMA has long survival rate ...most of the installers were still in school when that system was installed...when you get them working you forget you have them 😜

This is what I have anyone with any experience in lead acid batteries ?

Hi I acquired 24 X Hoppecke 600 Ah 2v batteries commissioned September 2008....was used with SMA SB 4000 Tl and SI 5048. 24 x Hoppecke 910 Ah 2v batteries commissioned June 2015 ...was used with SMA SB 5000 Tl and a SI 5048 These batteries were fully operational when decommisioned, stored for a year and when contractor was commissioned to reinstall he told client he does not install crap ! ( Probably installed one of those blue things 😜)...that is how I got them ....( 48 batteries X 40 kg x7.00 / kg Now I am from the era when things worked and when they did not you made a plan !!! Hoppecke batteries are sapposed to have a life span of between 15 and twenty years ? Any advice on how to proceed to recondition or get some life out of them...am doing research before talking the project...there are a few old bellies in this forum I have been stalking here since "king" Arthur's days with his MLT bi-directonal inverter 😜 thanks ,cheers Roland

Are you in the CoCT area ???

The guys on this forum are afraid of SMA products they are mostly Victron and Apex ....no disrespect....always very helpful !!!.Try Solar PV South Africa on Facebook...Fourie Joubert says 90% of his work is with SMA products...maybe he can help or point you in the right direction... also have a SMA system ...good luck !!!

https://eeco.co.za/projects/generator/ The above link appeared on my WhatsApp page !

Just trying to sort out the things that I "can" do before I have him do inspection !

Thanks for all the answers ! Being a retired garden boy l am slightly confused ! Having watch this video: powerforum .co.za topic 2297 difference between various grounding toplogies. I have two flats which are part of the main residence, they have been seperately wired with own internal meter,the power source is from "main residence" to get a Coc each unit had to have its own earth rod ! What I am now planning to do is to combine the earth wires from my two strings and take them straight to the nearest earth rod which belongs to one of the flats.The earth wire from surge breaker and inverter will go onto the earth rod which belongs to the other flat which is on the other side of the house....the earth wires will be 10mm2 Am I winning and will Coct like it ??? Thanks

Hi I am Roland , have a SMA 5kw Sunnyboy av40 with one string of 9x310 Engel PV panels facing east and another facing west 9x310! At present I am harvesting on average 38kwh per day . A friend who is a solar installer in Africa help me,or I help him ! Problem is i fall in the Coct area so we need to take the "Bush" out of the system ! and register the system ! The way I understand earthing is that a mounting rail in each array of panels (6 and 3 ) need to be earthed, a Schlettler mounting system was used ,the two strings then connected , the earth wire then runs on the outside of the two sleeves taking the PV wires to the inverter. The earth then goes to the surge protector and then inverter to the earth rod outside the building. (Have been told that each panel needs to be earthed seperately with seperate wires ? ) what would be the thickness of the copper wire to the earth rod ? According to Coct !!! Thanks guys !