On 2024/01/30 at 2:31 PM, Nicholas Strachan said:

Well if anyone who is in the greater durban area needs a battery on loan for a client then let me know.

I am happy to go ahead and buy some inverters and batteries if i see some requests coming through.

Did you go ahead with this? Im in need of a rental battery in durban

On 2024/01/31 at 11:33 AM, Scorp007 said:

Don't worry. I used to drive Fiats and guess what. Today I drive a very old WORST 4X4XFAR and just love it even at 23yrs old. But I do know the day will come that........ 

Then SWAMBO drives a town car that's 16yrs old and have never even put in water outside of services. The best car even. 

Well it came to pass last week. The installer had sent a tech out to look at my battery. Freedom Won had instructed him to query some logs, upgrade the firmware, and install something that would allow them to monitor remotely. 

That was earlier. Last week he comes out, says FW want him to run the system without comms between the BMS and the inverter. He didn't know anything about the Goodwe so just pulled out the comms cable. That won't work on the Goodwe unless you put it into "self define" mode and set all the parameters as per (in this case) Freedom Won's specs. He didn't know that, didn't know how to do that, didn't have the app on his phone... The Goodwe refused to see any battery at all (which I expected but which surprised him) and since I'm not willing to live without a battery (that now won't charge, let alone discharge), I overrode FW and asked him to plug the cable back in. Now back to square one.