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Tiaan Vermeulen

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  1. Good morning. They are pending payment. If it doesn't reflect by midday I will let you know.
  2. My parents are selling these as they changed to 1 unit instead. Both inverters are still under warranty. Mostly used for UPS during loadshedding times. They have both been removed and are ready for collection in Blaauwberg. R10k each or R19k for both. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
  3. This is where my electrical expertise runs out. I have not idea where to read or measure that. :-( This is the KODAK specs - I think page 9 is what we are looking for? This is the JA Solar Panel specs. Does this help?
  4. According to the specs the panels are 50,28VOC and the MPPT string works between 90-450 with a 500VDC.
  5. 8 panels per string. 565W mounted in series.
  6. Good morning My parents are running 2x 8kva Kodak inverters. However, the one inverter keeps on giving a PV Overload error and then shuts off the inverter. Can anyone please recommend what could be causing this issue and how we would go about fixing it? Thank you.
  7.    Virwat reacted to a post in a topic: Despondent Client
  8. Im at R85k loss at the moment. basically everything accept for the inverter itself.
  9. Thank you for this. I dont have a contract as such. but everything else I have on whats app and email. from invoices to payments, to his worker whats app, his wife's msg's. Digging a little deeper I found out that he owes just about everybody money, any and every supplier in the George area is looking for him. Someone has to try and put a stop to this.
  10. Good afternoon gents. I hope this is the correct area to post my question. I need some guidance please. I trusted an old racing buddy who does solar installation for my new installation at my house in Blouberg. Naturally being a friend he offered to make minimal profit on the appliances and I have to cover labour for the installation. I was most delighted and paid his 2 quotes immediately and even mentioned that we are not moving in straight away when we get the keys on 6 August, instead he has 3 weeks, we will move in early Sept. Needless to say, we are nearly in November and I have nothing. Everything was/is a lie. So much so that his close family contacted me behind his back to tell me that all his excuses are lies. So here I am, what do I do, what are my rights? is that money lost? Please share some guidance. Then, I still have to complete the half install which I think is a massive fire hazard at the moment. Are there any recommended Victron installers that can assist me in my area? If so, please reach out to me on 082 878 0086. Thank you in advance.
  11. New Alarm this morning? Is there any scripture I can read up about what the different alarm types mean? Is there a way to reset the alarm? (unit still functioning as normal)
  12. Thank you, I thought as much as the inverter was still operating 100% during this alarm notification.
  13. So i wrote to China Shoto and they gave me some kodak settings to use in conjunction with the Shoto batteries. I changed it earlier this evening but now I get an alarm, even though the inverters are still working 100%. Does anyone know what the below means, and 2ndly how to remove, reset the alarm? Or does it reset by itself?
  14. Is the screenshot above of your SA setup or is this just using the cable (RS485 to USB adapter and a LAN Cable) in conjunction with Seplos software? Can you give me the correct settings for 31-36 (battery equalisation) please?
  15. After reading up on many different forums I tried to make sense of what the best settings would be, however it is apparent that many people uses different settings, and im not entirely sure why. Given the settings I was advise by SSA, I have a couple of questions when compared to the Shoto manufacturer parameter settings. (attached) We have the Shoto 16S batteries With regards to setting 12, (operating voltages for this battery is between 42-57.6). Can this setting not be as low as 46/48V atleast? SDA10-48100_3U-16S328.pdf

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