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Looking to find an additional 10.4 Kw Fox ESS battery. What local suppliers are there? Yes, we had an installation done, and I will offer for them to quote, but I'd like to compare as this will need installation, and a combiner box fitted. Currently having the ECA oversee the compliance of the installation done, as the electrician that signed off the ECOC was never on site. Hence looking at other options.

Having gone and looked at my panels again this morning, I can say with sadness that the brackets used are not adjustable and I would have to cut them to lower the panels. I am therefore going to engineer a plan to space the front and back row further apart. It will require loostening of all the brackets, inserting aluminum carriers, and then reattaching at the right distance from each other. At the same time, I will raise the rear four panels around 250mm above roof height by extending the brackets.

Thank you for all the replies and the suggestions. The system is an 8Kw Sunsynk and these have two MPPT's. Currently each running 1 string of 8 panels in series. I have another carport with two rows of four panels matching the first carport where the shading occurs. If there was space to put more distance between the two rows of four, I would do so. I can lower the front row, to what loss on the front I am unsure, but this is easy enough to give a go and monitor for a few days. Ideally, I'd like to have someone build a frame in lightweight material, strong enough to support the four back panels, and lift them all vertically out of the shaded zone. Let me give lowering the front four a try and see how that plays out.

Right, it's a flat roof and it's two rows of panels. The first row is too close to the second and causes shading as shown. The purple line indicated the area of shading.

I am hoping to find a solution to the issue I have on hand. I have two strings of 8 panels, 550 Watt Longi. The string positioned to take best advantage of the early morning sun is being hampered by shading due to the string being split in two on top of a carport. The back string is shaded by the front from sunrise now in winter till around 11am. I need to raise the back 4 panels in a safe and secure manner to overcome the reduction in solar production due to the throttling effect. Some advice and a possible installer for a solution here in Roodepoort would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.

@Bobster. - Perhaps there is a misunderstanding here. Her use during the daytime is 100% covered but she has only 1 X 10KW battery, so she makes use of Eskom during the evening. For 24Hrs, just over 50% is covered by solar production. Why reduce consumption? She will simply need to expand her backup and seeing that the evenings appear to use between 10 Kwh and 13 Kwh one more battery will see her come close to not use any Eskom unless there is bad weather like today. She could of course plan better and try teaching the kids to not shower and bath both morning and night. Run dishwashers etc in the day and so forth. I wanted to see he become independent of Eskom to a large degree and not have to worry about changing lifestyle or routines. She lost her husband and eldest son, and now runs his business alone. Much of which is support 24/7. So we will expand the batteries and panels till it's basically set and forget. We have a 200AH UPS in her office so in the event the batteries are ever depleted, and she has load-shedding or power failures at night, the UPS will run the whole office at home. Server, internet, laptops etc. Some of us have time to tinker and change the way we live, some not. In my own residence I run a Sunsynk 8.8Kw inverter and 6 X 5.2KW batteries and have 2 X 8 550 Watt Longi panels. I run whatever we need whenever we need it. Including running an Aircon every night all night and 24/7 over weekends. We also have a pool with a 1.1kw motor and all the usual appliances. We cook on induction and Air-Fryer and the oven is rarely used. On prepaid electricity, I bsically keep 100 units loaded and have to coevr the monthly minimum service charge. We load 1 to 2 vouchers a month of R250.00. It's been a great investment. I wish I had gobe the Fox ESS route though.

We just had a 10KW Fox ESS system installed at my sister’s house in Centurion. Great service and very pleasing results with just 9 panels and one 10.4KW battery. The system has cut the consumption by a little over 50%. Feel free to reach out for the installers we used.

Reviving an old topic as I just obtained two of these inverters - I love transformer based units but the fans in there are seriously loud. Yes there is a warmning on the sites and I should haev listened. I am looking to see if anyone has changed the fans for Noctura or such? Not on the 3.0+ Inverter but the small 24V 1000W Synapse. I have Powerman UPD 25.6V Lithium batteries and their spec for Bulk, Float etc are withing reason so I'm going to try and use these batteries.

I now really need todo this modification for my Sunsynk inverter as the fans are getting way too noisy. The thing is, no one seems to have stock of the fans you listed. Does anyone have a recommendation for an alternative brand? To import is possible and shipping wiil be only R500 for 5 fans. So if I can’t find locally, perhaps there are members here that may be keen on a group buy?

Good evening, was this sold?

Evacuated tubes. I can send you the suppliers details but the parts are freely available to purchase online.

Very interested in this system for a second dwelling. Subscribe.

I’ve just fitted a 30 tube system to my HP geyser of 250L and today it got to one 70 degrees Celsius. I must say the reduction in electric usage so far, with the Geyserwise in play, is awesome. Over 40 reduction in power consumption.

Modified sine wave and also sold. Thank you for asking.

Apologies if you did reply - this is still available. 0836609654