Eddie Louw

I myself is not too knowledgeable on a solar system and mostly rely on the installers, which was Markpole Electrical. My main concern was that should my battery not be full when load shedding starts, I could run into trouble. That could happen should too much battery power was used during the day and not enough sunshine to replenish before nightfall. Two questions in this regard. 1. I conclude from your notes there is a difference in battery life if the battery power is used frequently as to being kept full? 2. Does "load" include both charging the battery and the power used by the householding? That was my assumption when putting the settings on load first and that utility would only be used when PV is not enough to service both.

SOC is always 100%. According to my settings PV should carry the full load and Utility can also charge the battery.

I have a prepaid meter and as far as I know my system cannot feed back into utility, and my inverter does not have such a setting.

I have a 5kw pure sine wave Kodak hybrid converter, a 3.5 Kwh lithium Ion battery and 8 340W JA solar panels installed. Why is it that the Watage delivered by the panels is constantly lower than the Watage of the load, no matter whether the load is low or high. I am therefor constantly use some utility power no matter whether I have full so shine or not. When the load is very high the Watage from the panels also jumps up high, but always stays lower than the load. Is this normal or could there be something wrong with the settings? The settings are all on default where applicable. Eddie Louw