September 27, 20223 yr On 2022/09/20 at 9:34 AM, MKRandburg said: Even when the grid was down? During loadshedding? Hi ... I manage my loads. When the grid is down, I make sure that there are no heavy loads or that the loads are less than the PV production. Fortunately there were no clouds during this period that dropped PV production to less than demand or else the inverter would have cut out. Was a stressful period without the battery, but the system works.
September 27, 20223 yr I have also written two "if this then that" applets that switches the geyser off as soon as it reaches its full temp (when the thermostat kicks in). At this point the geyser automatically switches off ... without having to come off and on until the timer kicks in.
September 27, 20223 yr Author 1 hour ago, JayN said: Hi ... I manage my loads. When the grid is down, I make sure that there are no heavy loads or that the loads are less than the PV production. Fortunately there were no clouds during this period that dropped PV production to less than demand or else the inverter would have cut out. Was a stressful period without the battery, but the system works. This is interesting! I was under the impression the SunSynk couldn't do this. I'm happy with my choice to go Kodak but my choice was primarily driven by the fact that I believed SunSynk couldn't do it. This is my plan - to run batteryless - shift loads around.
September 27, 20223 yr Author 1 hour ago, JayN said: I have also written two "if this then that" applets that switches the geyser off as soon as it reaches its full temp (when the thermostat kicks in). At this point the geyser automatically switches off ... without having to come off and on until the timer kicks in. Cool, what platform/software set up are you running? "Applet" - sounds like old school java
September 30, 20223 yr On 2022/09/27 at 9:54 AM, MKRandburg said: Cool, what platform/software set up are you running? "Applet" - sounds like old school java Hi ... I just did two applets in the CBI app. The first applet starts the monitoring a minute after the switch turns on. The second applet runs once the minute from the first applet is up. If the power is less say 100w, then turn the switch off.
December 11, 20232 yr Adding for posterity The kodak and other axperts can switch to bypass mode when you exceed the inverter output ie you pull more than The inverter can handle and if bypass on overload is enabled then the axperts switches all the load to eskom and pv is relegated to charging batteries only When the load drops it switches back to battery mode If however you exceed the limit and load shedding kicks in then the load goes back to inverter and promptly trips the inverter If you have restart on overload enabled the inverter will restart and power the load if you have switched of enough devices to be under the inverter output Edited December 11, 20232 yr by Leondavibe
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