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Thanks for letting me know Jaco! Cheers, L.

Is the store in business again? (Post lockdown?) I've emailed and called, but no response / reply. Wanted to order 6 of the GCL panels. Have called, and left message, and also emailed, but no response.

I won't say I'm doing exactly this (Revov + 48v Dead Acid), but I like to live dangerously. At least till summer pops its head around. I REALLY need to wire things up correctly one of these days...

I'm finally getting around to installing my LFP's (almost a year late!) Finally got a nice 42u rack, and can move out the dead acid, yay! Onto my question - I need to put some bus bars up for + and - to/from inverter and batteries and put a fuse disconnect in. Any suggestions on what to use for bus bars, and where to buy in/around CPT? For fuse disconnects - I was looking at the KETO's - do I need one or two? eg https://thepowerstore.co.za/products/keto-battery-disconnector-with-160a-fuses Thanks!

I'd like an electric beetle, although it may need a name change in SA. https://insideevs.com/news/369020/vw-retrofits-beetle-ekafer-project/

If he's emigrating, may as well say why bother, emigrate and write it off. Bank isn't going to chase him to the other side of the world.

Oversea's electric's depreciate nicely - you can pick up a secondhand Leaf or i3 for close to 10k USD in the states. We don't necessarily even get the latest cars here - eg the Leaf is 2 generations behind I think?, and they're already highly priced.,

A 200k car is possible, but unlikely. Currently taxes + duties on an electric car make up 60% on top of the sales cost. 25% duty on electric cars (vs 0% on < 1.2L Petrol) 20% ad valorum duty on electric cars (sliding scale up to 20%, but electrics will be the far end of the scale..) 15% VAT = 60% on top. Reasonably, electrics should be taxed like the < 1.2L petrol cars - no duty, and no ad valorum tax. We don't have a local electric industry to protect. The government is basically charging electric vehicles an upfront cost of what they recoup back from petrol /diesel vehicles in taxes. Fair? No. Good for the environment? No.

The vehicle in the photo is a really low end Chinese 3rd tier city job. Lead Acid batteries. Maybe to the shops and back. Its a glorified golf cart. Its not something i would consider, unless I had a golf course or large property wanted to drive around in. Pretty sure its not street legal either.

Still yes. Its a countrywide requirement coming into place - https://www.businessinsider.co.za/nersa-registration-for-off-grid-electricity-systems-via-distributor-rules-for-municipalities-2019-8

I've gotten a lot older since the first photo, and fatter @Bobster Yes, would need a CoC, and as its a off grid setup, also register with CoCT so they can let NERSA know about it.

https://mg.co.za/article/2019-07-05-00-greener-cars-have-truly-electrifying-potential I thought that was a familiar looking car, I have a photo I took of that at Lieberman's late last year - the pottery place is literally across the road from me (albeit down the hill about 100m!)

The boxes arrived Wednesday (I think). Got stored in my garage, will only take a look end of the year when I'm back in Cape Town. They're going to sit for a few months..

I actually googled how to get it working, and it led me to a the google groups list, where others had similar questions - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/victron-dev-venus/5OYoQpXbLa0 The internet was playing nicely enough for me to access google reliably enough to post (China, bleh, vpn etc), so I wrote up some instructions, took me around an hour of fiddling about to get mine working, as I had no instructions, and was unfamiliar with overlays and config.txt peculiarities. Plenty of *nix experience, and embedded dev, so got there in the end Posted to the wiki, into the victron google group, here, and to Reddit too. Surely thats enough haha?

I wrote-up some instructions for configuring Venus to use the 3.5" SPI touch screen (MPI3501), and put them on the Victron Wiki https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/wiki/pi-Venus-install-Touch-Screen-(MPI3501--ILI9486-320x480-LCD) May be of use to others here! The touchscreens are really cheap too! I only paid 65RMB for mine (R130 ish).