Newbie and overwhelmed by the options.

[brooks]

Help,so many options,so many scams .

Burned my fingers once with a small system and scrapped batteries after 6 months.

Received a quote after load monitoring of circa R90k but an eskom saving of R500 to R900pm. Pay back therefore 8 years ,best case without interest .
I am not too worried about batteries at this point in time but will add later.

Can i put in panels and inverter only?

regards Brooks

[Eurard]

1 minute ago, brooks said:

Help,so many options,so many scams .

Burned my fingers once with a small system and scrapped batteries after 6 months.

Received a quote after load monitoring of circa R90k but an eskom saving of R500 to R900pm. Pay back therefore 8 years ,best case without interest .
I am not too worried about batteries at this point in time but will add later.

Can i put in panels and inverter only?

regards Brooks

I honeslty dont have a clue on what you are actually asking? Except the fact that you want to run an inverter and only panels without battery?

If so off course you can.

 

[Bobster.]

5 minutes ago, brooks said:

Help,so many options,so many scams .

Burned my fingers once with a small system and scrapped batteries after 6 months.

Received a quote after load monitoring of circa R90k but an eskom saving of R500 to R900pm. Pay back therefore 8 years ,best case without interest .
I am not too worried about batteries at this point in time but will add later.

Can i put in panels and inverter only?

regards Brooks

You can. But the way I look at these things is that panels save you money, and batteries give you security. Without batteries you will have no protection against load shedding.  Most hybrid inverters with panels but no batteries will stop producing when the grid goes down.

And, of course, panels aren't going to be much help once the sun has gone down.

[brooks]

Thanks for the quick reply- I get that the panels wont work in the dark .

Its all about getting the right advice ,not simply a salesman with a product to sell (and probably quite new at it as well.)

I have 10 tenants split into 3 blocks .

8/10 use gas for water heating and cooking.

2/10 still using electric stove and electric geysers.

The eskom bill is circa R4500 pm (for the primary phase for which we have the quote and monitoring.)R7500 in total for all three phases.

I am not too concerned about battery back up, at this stage ,because i gave them all battery back up lighting and they cook on gas.

Each phase has a block of units but the primary one with the  borehole,electric gate and best tenants was quoted for as follows:

 a mobi plug 5.6kw hybrid inverter ,

8 x 450w panels

mobiplug battery Sl 51.211

Cost with installation coc etc circa R90k.

If my priority is to save eskom costs from solar and power the pressure pump am i looking in the right direction.

It will be a hard call to find (n.b. not fund,) R90k for a R500 to R900 monthly saving.

The monitoring was for 14 days as follows:

Av, 25.8 kwh day

Peak 28.8kwh( prob 2 x elec stove and elec geyser,)

Av monthly 774 kw/hr .

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
regards brooks