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I have a Sunsynk 5.5 kw. When Eskom switches off (load shedding) the 63A earth leakage for the essential power trips. Only sometimes and with very little load. Any idea.

Nearly 15 years ago I added Evacuated Tubes for hot water on my newly bult home and literally burnt my fingers. The temperature of water under pressure can exceed 100 degrees Celsius. It can melt plastic and it did so in the end I had to adapt, See the attached pdf. The blockage mentioned is the plastic pressure release valve on the roof that was melted and transported down the pipe to where it cooled down and solidified. As this resulted in my redesigning the system I think it is the only one in exitance. SolarWater2023.pdf

The Victron GX Touch 50 and GX Touch 70 are display accessories for the Victron Cerbo GX, to use for the monitoring of your solar system. This is what is said so in essence it is not necessary if you install a Victron setup. Is it an expensive "nice to have"

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst Should we not at least collectively prepare for the worst. I have solar very convenient and ensures that I can pump the water from my rainwater tanks (30000 litres) But what happens when the shops run empty and I cannot buy food I live at the sea if I but an electric motor in my boat I can go fishing fun and food. I could have had have had contact with the outside world through Starlink but SA is one of the few countries in Africa without access: "The delays were suspected to be linked to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) equity rules for Internet service providers (ISPs)." the reason why we are in this loadshedding mess in the first place We have to think and we can to ensure that should the fan be struck we will at least be able to survive

Total Blackout South Africa I think it will be good to start a new MAIN TOPIC on what people should do once Eskom goes down completely. After a few hours or days with Eskom completely down there will be no water on tap, petrol, food, cell phone connections, you name it it won't be there. It would be like war and we will have to survive on our own. Water will be the first priority and then food and then the other necessities. Communication will be difficult transportation will be nearly impossible So what will we do? Lets talk

What about blue nova, mine ran flat and I returned it they fixed an issue and recharged it no cost 10year warranty.... only cost me transport.

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The demand is during working hours so unless it is cloudy it will not be necessary to use the batteries

Looking into a system that consists of 2 x sunsynk 8kW inverters with maxed out solar panels and 2 x 5 kW batteries. This is a follow up on my frail care question as this could go a long way to alleviate the backlog of washing cased by load shedding. How would this all be linked up; batteries on one inverter or one on each etc. Maybe there is someone who has a similar setup that could share the layout.

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Can one run a Growatt spf 3000tl without solar panels? Charging batteries from mains.

How do you provide for a frail care home that uses 133 kilowatt hours a day during the week . Most of the consumption happens during the day with very little at night. It consists of the washing of clothes and drying and ironing as well as heating of water for washing and bathing during working hours. iIt seems that in essence it means that we need a lot of solar panels and not so many batteries. Has anybody been involved in setting up a similar sort of installation. Suggestions will be welcomed.

End of 2018 I acquired a BlueNova BN26V-154-4k, panels and a Axpert 3kVA/24V Inverter. This setup served me well until the Axpert lost the plot. As the battery ran flat I returned it to BlueNova who serviced it under guarantee and returned. I replaced Axpert with a Growatt SPF 3000-5000TL HVM inverter but have not been able to get them to talk. So now I am using the Growatt in another setup and I am thinking the replace it with a Victron components as I understand these components are better suited to the BlueNova. Any one out there that have experience with the BlueNova battery.

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