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  1. Waiting for a copy, has anyone gotten visibility of this, whats the small print, what do we need to know. G
  2. most prob. The curious one, our power in Jbay was stable, never any alarms, 6 weeks ago they did a full shutdown for a day, to do maintenance... and well since then, alarms every day/2nd day. One of those, maybe they should not have touched it as it seems they f'd it up. G
  3. ... I'm not that worried about the AC1Out load, that I know is clean... But my Non Essential load thats currently sitting on AC-In feed... tad issue. As PJJ said, might have to move all of that to AC2Out... Already pinged the installer to find out about cost, most things are there... might just be a couple of wires undone here and connected there. Between my Buzz Bar 1 and Buzz Bar 2 G
  4. thats how I'm getting the alerts... the Victron is doing the monitoring. Ye... maybe using that alarm to deactivate the non essential loads which are on a sonoff 4 channel + contractors might be a candidate for a node-red flow. G
  5. I know, but this is not how my system was wired, by mutual agreement after allot of discussions with various people. This change will cost $$$ as I will need to get Victron people out again. G
  6. issue... previously experience with these low voltages you burn out washing machine / tumble dryers / dish washer motors and the favourite... pool pumps... maybe a question to more informed... for the Victron, it bump the voltage... issue allot of these devices sit on the input side of INPUT1 (Non Essential) G
  7. Hi all Getting repeated notices from Inverter... I've set the low and high limits, grid input has on a regular basis now dropped below 201V last 2-3 weeks. Input voltage phase 1: 207.8 Low limit (hysteresis): 210 (215) High limit (hysteresis): 230 (225) Wait time: 60 seconds G
  8. ps... instead of dumb timers for those pool pumps and geysers, look at using sonoff 4c units, for the control, switching contractors that with the circuits on/off. that allows you to easily change the schedules, graphically and remotely via the web interface. G
  9. Congratulations, looks very nice/neat. Now the paying starts, G
  10. for me it's 3 more panels and 1 additional battery and I can go off grid, but for Eskom, the ultimate better solution is actually going the total opposite way... go cheaper, cheaper will end with more people using,= more income = more cash flow. but then they have to collect from all the municipalities thats not paying, they must pay right amount for good coal and not over pay for XXX down the road delivering 1/3 rocks and some shitty low quality coal. They pretty much have a admin/operational failure across their entire management chain, fix that and they will have more than enough to go around come bonus time. This plan, is going hurt more, for them and Joe soap in the street, the number of people on Solar is not large enough to make a difference at the moment. and as for splitting Eskom up, well Transmission will love this idea, they will get the lion share of the monthly bill, btw as it stands Transmission is the more stable, most profitable division in Eskom already so they will justt look better, Generation on the other hand, is already in the ditch, got no value for anyone to invest in if they are split and when they are split, will get even less, and they need it more. looks interesting. G
  11. we'll with this type of threat, against a critical resource, holding the government hostage... don't retrench them, fire them... that will fit into CR's not allowed to retrench, and help towards cutting that middle management bloated salary bill. G
  12. The unions bottom line are a business, and as such they won't do anything to jeopardise their income. at the end they actually don't care 1 cent for their members, only the membership fee they pay and to be able to pay that they have to be employed, the more they earn the more membership fee they can collect. G
  13. So I have contractors on each of my non essential high wattage loads, I then use a sonoff 4c (with Tasmoto deployed) channel to switch the contactors. (sonoff's also have a schedule system so basic on and off at time X and Y is easy.) Now drive the sonoff's via mqtt and build some logic that looks at battery charge level, PV production etc and this can be automated. G
  14. I meant... like Pylontech, support = BUS interface. G
  15. Hi all Anyone using them, got experience with them @plonkster, Victron view/compatibility. G
  16. yes, assume thats the "I can see the assistant" you referred to. G
  17. once you get it working please share. how did you access it, I believe the 2 ports on the front is RS485 ports ? G
  18. VERY Nicely done, and ye, kudu's for being used by Solar MD as a reference. G
  19. Raspberry Pi4 has launched. for those running Home assistant, Open Energy Monitor etc. https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=19519&fbclid=IwAR0bOuNuWlckNnPi9Tj99cCH2pKUovS5L0pMd30iO0H13F-zp2O4IGAeTaw https://www.raspberrypi.org G
  20. ... not exactly, as I gave 2 x US2000's... each 2400Wh aka 2.4 KWh G
  21. thinking answering my own question... The US2000 = 2.4KWh, 2 = 4,8 @ 80% = 3,8 500watt load = 0,5KWh 3,8 / 0,5 = 7.6 hours. G
  22. Hi all So the normal Gel and lead acids are all rated Amp / Hour so easy to work our how long they will last if you pull say 500watt at any time. but with the Pylontech's. They work tad different. with say 2 x US2000's which are 2400Kw each, how do I do this math ? Friday moment, my brain not working... G
  23. we'll sadly issuing this instruction and now making it happen will be the proof... Have to start, have to execute to then make progress, all well said, now the done needs to happen. next is Transient, then SAA, then OVS dairy fiasco... then we will be making progress. G
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