Moffat

If you're on good footing with the neighbour across the road, maybe ask him, for testing purposes to turn off his inverter, for 10 minutes while you and him check whether this quietens your affected devices.... if it does, the supplier of his inverter would probably have to get involved...

I have an e-Tower which I bought last year in December and am hoping to get a second one. My experience initially wasn’t good because I couldn’t get physical support as I’m in Zim when it developed a problem with a Thermistor. That aside, the online support has been exceptional and if you’re in SA, would highly recommend you get one. At purchase just ensure they also supply you with an RS232 cable which will help with any issues should they arise as getting that cable isn’t always easy. This cable allows support team to view battery issues online and even develop firmware updates specific to you.
I wouldn’t think twice, that’s been my “real world experience”!

The inverter doesn't care about the count of panels. Just the incoming volts x amps, and that, it only needs to know at the time of receiving.
There is no place to configure this on an inverter. The solis cloud, however, does have a spot for this and it doesn't affect the results. It's just used for plotting on their portal.

This seems like a "fair" deal.

4 Years Warranty

Inverter Compressor

Energy Rating A+

https://www.makro.co.za/hisense-347-l-manual-double-door-bottom-mount-refrigerator-a/p/itmd4249a2ba3b7f?pid=RFRH2FVNX9ZGHHYA&lid=LSTRFRH2FVNX9ZGHHYAIPDIGQ&q=inverter+fridge+freezer&store=j9e%2Fabm%2Fhzg&srno=s_1_6&otracker=search&otracker1=search&fm=organic&iid=0cb68b23-aa4a-458f-b773-96f5aaf9ac8c.RFRH2FVNX9ZGHHYA.SEARCH&ppt=pp&ppn=pp&ssid=h3fie7ma4g0000001743267511858&qH=ff2cc0e325c54789

Yes am able to run pmbsTools to connect to my eTower battery and see and monitor my battery performance in detail including individual cells, voltages and temperatures etc...

Glad you are sorted, enjoy  👍

Mine is the same..been 100 percent

Hi All!
I have decided to select active forum members into an excel sheet. Google Random number selector will select the winner.
I feel it is much better to reward active members than some one that has not logged in since 2013.
Lets see tomorrow who the random number gen selects tomorrow! Damn that water valve goodie is really cool! 😆
Awesome.
Jason

Just need to get another eTower once funds permit and before winter so that am sitting at least on 200ah, well less 20% to try and cover for the extra cloudy days.

Excellent choice, the e-Tower is a 1C battery, and the Solis S6 is starting to become legendary.

Many thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I’ve missed the boat, having gone for the Combo promo of Solis s6 6kw and Freedom Won eTower. No complaints regarding Freedom Won tech guys, save for initial teething problems with comms cable, which eventually got sorted. 

Great Product Choice ! 

Hi hope I don't qualify as a "bakkie-brigader" however, I think this article may have a good intention but the explanation is a bit inaccurate. 
I have seen this arguement being had a lot and once again it's a little lack of what is the actual risk. What is risky here ? The MPPTs are a DC driven device. It extracts power by the product of Voltage and Amps. What is the limitation to observe the Volts or the amps and what happens to either if you exceed them??
The MPPT will have a 500V max voltage for example. If you go and connect enough panels in series like 10 in series at 52V per panel (520V) you will exceed the raw voltage input & the MPPT can be damaged.
Let's say there is a amperage total expressed as 11A on the MPPT. What happens if I use a 550W JA Mono panel rated at 52V per panel Voc and Imp at 14A. What will happen to a string length of 8 panels??
A lot of ppl and probably the author of that article believes that we ok in the Voltage range because 52V x 8panels = 416V total. So voltage is GOOD. What about the current? They believe the MPPt will blow and get damaged because the panels at Max power current will deliver 14A and fry the MPPT. This is grossly incorrect!! The MPPT will drink 11A from the panels because that's all it needs. It won't kill itself trying to get drunk. 
If someone including this author feels anything differently let's try to compare logic if not science. You have a 5kWh or 100ah battery attached to this same inverter. It's rated battery max input current draw is 100A. If I attached another 5kWh (100ah) battery to this is parallel what will happen?? Everyone knows the inverter doesn't blow up. However if you connect them in series to get 100V you have a problem and will damage the inverter. 
Some ppl mock the humble Bakkie Brigader, however, there are some basic fundamentals that need to be understood before we point fingers. 
Now we can argue further that there will be losses with the 550W panel because it will never reach full rated power and I agree with that. The 460W panel is a better fit because it has 11A Imp rating. But let's just say the message to pass on is that poorly integrated equipment can cause damage and losses in production but the fear mongering of ppl saying the amps will damage the MPPTs is just a camp fire story. 
Sorry to be a pain but even an electrical engineer at a Multi million rand project wanted me to connect an Atess inverter at 1100V. The max MPPT voltage is 1000V and the MPPT range is 450V to 800V. I was carrying out the commissioning & I refused. So the moral of this story is that Solar is a relatively new technology and a lot of operators/ installers/ electrical engineers/ Bakkie Brigaders and plumbers know what they are doing and a lot don't know. I couldn't care less the title of the person, we don't all know the same things neither do we have the same experience levels.

No I haven’t tried that. Thanks for the heads up. Is Freedom Won support available via WhatsApp call. Am not in SA. 

Can anyone help find out why my battery just randomly drops off power and cuts supply to load as shown please. Pv production is bad and erratic as it’s an overcast day. Inverter is Solis s6 6kw. I’ve had to switch off my fridges so I can try and get my battery to charge as high and as much as possible before nightfall.

Thanks, I did read that already, and it was useful, but I'd rather buy a correct cable than be hacking at cables or having to go out and purchase RJ45 crimping kits.

I definitely concur with @Sidewinder regarding supplying enough information. Also be mindful of how much space you may have and will possibly need for Solar Panels and this may include utilising Carports (as shown). Being a especially given that you mention a Butchery, are you going to have just a Cold Room or you'll also have a Blast freezer and the Blast Freezer requires quite a heavy power load. Which means you'll need to be mindful of the need to have a generator as redundancy during winter months or rainy season. So kindly give the Forumites more info.

I definitely concur with @Sidewinder regarding supplying enough information. Also be mindful of how much space you may have and will possibly need for Solar Panels and this may include utilising Carports (as shown). Being a especially given that you mention a Butchery, are you going to have just a Cold Room or you'll also have a Blast freezer and the Blast Freezer requires quite a heavy power load. Which means you'll need to be mindful of the need to have a generator as redundancy during winter months or rainy season. So kindly give the Forumites more info.

Hi @Tshegofatso,
You need to provide the forum with a bit more info.
Most important is your peak power usage (in kW), and then the daily consumption (in kWh), else you can install anything, but your may not be satisfied with the result.
Too small capacity inverter...too  small rating of battery.... too much PV... not even talking about wiring sizing etc. 
If you don't know these values, you can look at the rating of each item that is connected to the grid. Lights, A/C, butchery equipment, each and every thing that is to be used together under normal conditions.
Your daily consumption can be calculated from your Utility Bill, or read your meter/pre-paid over a weeks worth to get the daily average.
Hope this helps.

For me the major and important consideration would now revolve around your loads. What equipment will be running off that and do any of them have high in-rush draw and are you also able to manage fellow housemates to ensure you don’t strain lower rated options of batteries, though I get the feeling you’re quite drawn by this battery and it’s aesthetics as well. Also plan to have enough panels or maybe a backup generator to be able to charge up this battery in the winter months so you are not caught with overcast days.
The other important consideration is, in your location, how quickly can you get product support for both Inverter and Battery should something go pear shape.

@BillyBob to be honest solar as a rule, more so batteries can be quite the rabbit hole. What would happen if your battery packed up, would you have some money lying around to be able to immediately replace that size of battery? The other side of the coin is having multiple 5kw batteries such as FreedomWon or Pylontech and if one in the pack gives you issues you may be able to hobble along and reduce your loads whilst nursing the other remain batteries. Still again, there's the issues of ensuring that you have enough panels and your inverter has the capability to fully charge your batteries as well as ensuring that the individual cells in each battery pack get fully balanced regularly.
1. So to buy 1 x large battery bank or;
2. To buy several in a pack; is the question.
Liquidity, ability to monitor the batteries will inevitably help you in your decision making process. Am sure others here with more experience, will chime in with their knowledge and expertise and experiences.

The same philosophy applies for batteries as does for inverters. In the attempt to have redundancy go for several smaller units in parallel rather than one big unit. I run two 5kW inverters in parallel with 6 100Ah packs LiFePo batteries. The max current the inverters (10kW) ever can draw is around 200A, that's some 0.33C.
There is another aspect to it: 100Ah, 4.8kWh packs wight around 45kg. 2 persons can handle this. A 200Ah pack would wight some 90kg. How would one handle that?

May the Karma Gods slap those weazels through the teeth. That's just not right for an installer or seller to take advantage of elderly people.😠😤

Wow, great prices. 

Ok, personally I would be skeptical about the value of this wind everyday, but hey, if you can get a wind turbine up at 30+m above the surrounding structures/terrain, then you may be able to generate some power that may help you along, however I have not come across any wind turbines in the 5 to 20kW or even more range that was worth the outlay and here I'd suggest you'd need to consider rolling your own. But homebrewing a wind turbine that will give you a few years worth of trouble free power generation is easier said than done, so I'd discount this as a non-starter...
The servers you are running, are you trying to do crypto mining or what? Is it conceivable you could get away with something more frugal on the converting electrons to heat department? I am assuming this is a commercial setup, if not, then what the heck, you could with some virtualization on even NUC Core i5's with 64Gig or more of memory and some SSD storage, this can do an amazing amount of work, ok, no crypto currency mining, but if that is what you're doing, your budget should stretch to @Steve87's suggested industrial type setup.