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Speedster

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  1. Panels also help during the day.
  2. Speedster replied to shovelhead's topic in Solar Power
    Here we go. https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html
  3. This post and your previous post confuse me as they seem to contradict one another. Could you perhaps expand a bit? Edit: oh wait, I see now you are talking about manufacturers seemingly incentivising consumers to buy a second battery. I think this view is disingenuous as it ignores the technical reasons for limiting discharge to 0.5C.
  4. I count 123W on your image?
  5. Weird thing is mine (8kw) did this for the first couple of days and then promptly stopped.
  6. As per the title, I'm looking for a Geyserwise TSE1 unit in the Pretoria area.
  7. I'm not sure what the SunSynk equivalent is but on my Deye I found selecting "zero export to CT“ worked better than "zero export to load".
  8. Looks really promising! Does anyone perhaps have access to the warranty document for these guys?
  9. I ended up going with the Canadian Solar 595w panels due to their shorter form factor.
  10. Lol. Just noted I didn't include the link last time... https://www.euroicc.com/product-category/smart-thermostat/
  11. In which case none of this hoo-ha applies to you.
  12. You've bought media propoganda six love. Or are you an Eskom direct customer with a 3 phase, 24kVA connection?
  13. Have you configured the WiFi on the logger yet? You need to join the logger's WiFi where you will be able to set the WiFi it should connect to.
  14. Speedster replied to Mo1989's topic in Batteries
    It is 100A per battery, so 200A for the two. You shouldn't need to set anything, let the BMS take care of it.
  15. The Sunsynk has passthrough up to 35A (i.e. 8kW). You could leave the 4kW element and should be okay, but if it was me I would switch out for a smaller element. Elements cost around R250. Water heating is linear, so halving the element size will double the required time which, in most circumstances, is not an issue.
  16. Virtually all inverters will work as long as there is grid connected. It might not blend sources though - i.e. if draw exceeds available PV it'll switch over to grid only as opposed to one that blends which will only draw in the needed extra from grid.
  17. I'd love to get my hands on something like this.
  18. 26A on one mppt and 13A on the other.
  19. You sure you have the probes connected properly / right way around?
  20. Do you have any sort of energy monitoring on your geyser and perhaps able to shed light on their claims that it uses less electricity than a standard element?
  21. Have you been able to gauge whether the PTC elements do in fact use less electricity than standard elements?
  22. 1) Yes that will help. 2) you can simply use a standard 2 kW element. I don't get the big push for expensive PTC elements
  23. Speedster replied to Mo1989's topic in Inverters
    Tap on the setting you want to change and then use the up / down keys on the keypad below the screen.
  24. Speedster replied to Mo1989's topic in Inverters
    That is very weird. It's the type of behaviour one would expect from battery priority, or perhaps a high minimum battery %.
  25. Speedster replied to Mo1989's topic in Inverters
    That all looks in order and the battery is being used. Is your grid off at the moment?

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