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Buyeye

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  1. Can you please clarify when you experience the problem you mentioned in relation to fully charged days.
  2. I was trying to find out if the charging source is enough to fully charge the battery and allows top balancing.
  3. Mine is the same, I have a pre-paid meter which shows one bar most of the time but no actual usage.
  4. @eddiepap even though pylon setting works it gives that error. Rather use protocol 6 as per compatibility table.
  5. Hi how are you charging the battery? From grid or pv? And what are those settings?
  6. I believe best way for his setup is a micro inverter with new panels?
  7. 2 slice toaster. Uses less than a microwave.
  8. I also paid R26k to an installer for my 5kw heat pump some 2 years ago at the previous house. It will always be cheaper if you have some DIY capabilities. We can't be expected to DIY solar panels and plumbing. Some stuff you will have to get an expect. I used probably close to 6kw to heat the geyser today which is fine on sunny days but if there was an outage I would have opted for no hot water today. If I had a heat pump I would have tried to heat it even through an outage. It looks like i would have managed the 1kw needed for that ITS heat pump from the graph.
  9. Thanks, do you have examples of the devices and costs?
  10. I'm interested in how you add an extra mppt?
  11. I'm surprised you were able to get those last year. 3 years ago we were already struggling to get 360 watt panels. Maybe other members can think of easier solutions. Your inverter is very popular you could try and swap it for one with 2 mppt like the luxpowertec sna5000 and use the second mppt for different panels.
  12. Interesting post recommending a higher spec inverter for warranty reasons then recommending a lower spec battery for budget reasons. I also have 2 sna5000 inverters and I never notice when loadshedding starts. I did however have to troubleshoot a strange behavior when stage 6 started. It turned out we really did not have enough electricity as the grid voltage and frequency were dropping which caused lights to flicker. It was not a switching problem but an actual problem with the grid. Here is proof. Look at the grid frequency.
  13. I believe his quotes are with Mark up and installation. The R101k is going to be about R130k with installation. It's better to go with the installer quote since they have to sort out warranty claims. I previously bought the equipment myself that I had to arrange shipping back to the shop myself. Next one I went with installer quotes.
  14. Other than not being part of the cool kids club with the pumped up kicks, I joke ofcource. You seem to have all the bases covered.
  15. I only suggested 9 because finding matching panels later on can be difficult.
  16. In all the pictures the battery is at 99/100%(basically full). Test with the battery at 50% I'm guessing the inverter is doing it to prevent feeding back a lot to the grid. If grid feedback is allowed or possible enable it and if you see a perfect bell curve then you have your answer.
  17. I'll keep this going, the battery looks great and an interesting size and price point. Just to add on the 2 sna 5000 inverters. I had to double check and I can confirm that the inverter with the full battery then takes over the load to allow the other inverter to charge its battery.
  18. You have a high voltage model, your target voltage is 360vdc. The sweet spot for your model would be around 9 panels in series. It also has a very nice and low start up voltage. So 6 panels in series is fine.
  19. @percy Please confirm specs for inveter's built in mppt, so far the plan sounds fine for a low voltage model. Just need to confirm that the inverter is indeed a low voltage model.
  20. I entered this one, interestingly enough with 2 sna5000 inverters you can choose to share or not share the batteries between the inverters so the batteries don't have to be the same.
  21. @This_isKat I had a geyser heat pump at the previous house. It is basically an aircon for your geyser so yes it uses less electricity than an element. I would advise a smaller unit as is needed to match your geyser. If you can get away with a 3,6kw unit then that's the one to go with rather than a 5kw unit. I had 5kw unit which only used 1200 watts to heat 200 litres in less than 2 hours. The 3,6kw unit uses around 900 watts which you would barely notice on a sunny day. The benefit is that you can still run it on a cloudy day. Aircons have been around for decades, the other benefit is that they come with a timer which makes it obvious that you don't need to run it 24/7. The reason I went for the heat pump vs the tubes was that the power demand by the heat pump is essentially the same in summer and winter. It will run longer in winter instead of 1 hour to get to set temp it will take maybe another hour because the water is colder.
  22. @Saluki hi the 265 panels are quite old and will be hard to find. Your inverter only has one mppt which means you cannot mix panels. You could have 2 parralel string of 9 amp panel or one string of newer 16- 18 amp panels. The pricing on panels is quite favorable currently to go for the latter. It is advisable to maximize on favorable pricing to get enough panels to last the life of the system in an system with one mppt. I was reading about 800 watt panels 4 years ago.
  23. On the luxpower app, it shows 50A from 90% then 25A then 15A then 7A as it gets closer to 100% and eventually 0A.
  24. @surfgate check the bms screen and post it so others can help.
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