September 28, 20223 yr Author Off-Grid now for 12 days and counting Average eskom consumption for the month down to under 3 units a day now We bought R200 eskom on the 1st giving us 100 units, still have 30 units left till then end of the month.
September 28, 20223 yr Thanks for sharing your solar experience with the rest of us. It surely should motivate more people to go the solar way, as it makes absolutely sense. What I have also noticed, is that you do indeed not go that big for a start. I am now more than ever convinced that my 8kW inverter will provide for almost all of my needs.
October 4, 20223 yr On 2022/09/28 at 12:19 PM, WannabeSolarSparky said: Off-Grid now for 12 days and counting Average eskom consumption for the month down to under 3 units a day now We bought R200 eskom on the 1st giving us 100 units, still have 30 units left till then end of the month. wow electricity is way cheaper there. 100 units will cost me R315
October 4, 20223 yr On 2022/09/28 at 2:10 PM, Janosh said: Thanks for sharing your solar experience with the rest of us. It surely should motivate more people to go the solar way, as it makes absolutely sense. What I have also noticed, is that you do indeed not go that big for a start. I am now more than ever convinced that my 8kW inverter will provide for almost all of my needs. We got out esksdom usage down to 0.8 kWh per day. Our average monthly usage is about 600 - 650 kWh pm. Our Eksdom usage only contributes to the grid charge atm. I do however regret not opting for 2 x 5KW inverters instead of a single 8KW inverter.
October 9, 20223 yr On 2022/07/25 at 4:49 PM, WannabeSolarSparky said: It is currently on the non-essential side, that's why I said I need to rewire it to the essential side. Already using tasmota to control all the timings Would you like a few sonoff devices to attach on the edg side and get more control of the appliance? I am happy to donate a few to achieve more savings and some good stats to compare? Just let me know and I can ship some to you.:)
October 10, 20223 yr Author 11 hours ago, Sonoff Africa said: Would you like a few sonoff devices to attach on the edg side and get more control of the appliance? I am happy to donate a few to achieve more savings and some good stats to compare? Just let me know and I can ship some to you.:) Hello SonOff Affrica @Sonoff Africa I would love that I can show install steps and photos etc and get everything added to all my graphs to showcase it nicely?
October 10, 20223 yr Hi Please just whatsapp me your address with the Powerforum username and I will ship you some of the demo units tomorrow. They dont have nice boxs as they have been opend. Aleks 0823793860
October 10, 20223 yr Author On 2022/10/04 at 8:24 AM, TiaanSmit said: wow electricity is way cheaper there. 100 units will cost me R315 I bet that is municipal supplied/billed, they way more expensive than eskom direct
October 12, 20223 yr On 2022/10/10 at 1:27 AM, Sonoff Africa said: Would you like a few sonoff devices to attach on the edg side and get more control of the appliance? I am happy to donate a few to achieve more savings and some good stats to compare? Just let me know and I can ship some to you.:) Hi @Sonoff Africa, I would be very interested in edge Sonoff devices. I am trying to stick with a Sonoff ecosystem, but starting to look at HA, as I need a few scenes to run during LS, and sadly many of our ISP's fail during heavy LS. If I understand you correctly and you have edge devices that could talk to each other in LAN mode, that would be a massive breakthrough. I would be very interested in providing feedback etc. if these are still in Beta stage.
November 1, 20223 yr Author That warm fuzzy feeling when you finally have your solar system dialled in nicely. Now consistently using less than 100 units per month 😍 And due to all the observations and data collected on my other thread about the JK BMS, these figures should now get even better and maybe closer to that goal of totally off-grid.
November 1, 20223 yr Hallo Sparky Nice to follow your thread, and it appears that your system is starting to come nicely together. I switched my system on 17 October 2022, and has up to now, not used a single watt from the grid, which makes me very happy. I have installed a Mecer 8kw Max 2 inverter, with 10x600w Canadian solar panels, and 2x5.5 AM2 Hubble batteries. My monitoring is done via Raspberry ICM, which seems tp be working brilliantly so far. Must say that the weather has also been good up to now. The next step is also now to connect some devices to sonof, of which one will be the geyser. Greetings from Gauteng! Edited November 1, 20223 yr by Janosh
November 1, 20223 yr Author 2 hours ago, Janosh said: The next step is also now to connect some devices to sonof, of which one will be the geyser. Great move going onto solar, I hope it gives you as much joy as mine does for me 🥰 Check my browser favourites bar at the top almost filled up with my connected/tasmotised sonoff devices and a few vizia metering switches. Still have a whole bunch to connect to the system, if only there were another 12 hours in the day 🤣
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