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BTW you can email the guy from WRND at [email protected] His name is Wean.

I agree plonkster. I am not an electronics expert, but it looks like the old story "you get what you pay for". I must say that the WRND is doing the job. I am running all 30 panels through it at the moment, but I have limited the amps to 100a. The fault on the other unit could be a "once off" problem. Only time will tell.

@plonkster Currently one of my two WRND's is on the way back from Durbanville. It was working fine for about 6 months and then suddenly died. I'll try to get more info from the supplier. Luckily I had a second one and just connected the full load on one (still within spec). The model I am using is rated 120 amp max current and 150 volts max voltage. If I have to do it again, I will probably also go for the Microcare. The WRND performs well, but there is no local technical support in my area. The guy in Durbanville is/was very helpful. It is just a pain to courier the unit when things go wrong.

Hi Clint No, I have a prepaid meter. The only items on my municipality bill are property rates, waste management, water and sanitation. Our plan is to buy R100 prepaid units every month (the lowest rate) and build up for when we need a few units when we have bad weather. I am in Centurion and we are part of City of Tshwane.

@Mike, We have been using solar since Feb this year, but we made some mistakes along the way. Our battery bank had to be replaced. The new batteries were connected last week and since Thursday we are running without Eskom. We still have the manual switch over in case we hit bad weather for a few days.

Hi Chris, We first used an Efergy meter and started with a daily consumption of 60kwh (unbelievable yes). We then switched off the outer buildings (not used unless we have friends over). Then we converted one geyser to heat pump and another geyser to Plasma. We also replaced all our lights with LED lights. We also "learned" to use electricity wisely (don't walk out of a room with aircon running, etc). Now we are using between 24 and 35 kwh per day and we run everything off solar.

Hi guys, I am fairly new to the forum and found a lot of useful information here. This is my current system. 30 x 300w Renesola pv 2 x 120a WRND MPPT Charge controllers 1 6kw PowerStar IR Inverter 16 x Narada 12v 200ah battery bank I have attached a few pics. Sarel