May 3, 20197 yr Just now, Sean said: Maybe they've shifted them It looks like it was moved up a little bit. That was likely so that rain water doesn't bounce over the gutter.
May 3, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, plonkster said: It looks like it was moved up a little bit. That was likely so that rain water doesn't bounce over the gutter. I smiled the one day when the guy who fixed our gutters, I refuse to have them glued (sometimes one needs to move them) - pointed out they are dripping / leaking a teeny weeny bit. Ja I said, can be an issue. Do you think the ground is wet because of the gutters dripping a teeny weeny bit ... or the rain falling? 🙂 Point is, as long as most of the water goes into the gutter, me, I really don't care. Everything is wet. Edited May 3, 20197 yr by Guest
May 4, 20197 yr 17 hours ago, The Terrible Triplett said: Point is, as long as most of the water goes into the gutter, me, I really don't care. Everything is wet. That may be true, but it is one of the things an installer takes into account. The way I look at it is if he moved them all 2cm down the clamp zones are perfect... so there must be a reason it was moved up... 🙂 This is a perfect example of optimising, finding a solution that satisfies all the constraints.
May 6, 20197 yr Author System is in... now to get use to it, figure out how everything works. Next up when I'm there in 2 weeks will be installing some additional CT's and a Rpi running Home Assistant and 2 Sonoff's, to start getting familiar with them got some more plans, some re-wire of some plug points... onto a non essential line. G
May 6, 20197 yr Author just switch over to grid, for now my system is configured to cycle batteries down to 50% every day.... mind you they only started with a 55% charge when system was commissioned this afternoon, will be nice to see what we get from PV from tomorrow. for prob 90min this afternoon was only drawing like 10Watt from the grid. G
May 6, 20197 yr It’ll be nice to compare how you do with my setup. Though in CT this week weather is a bit up and down. The install looks very nice.
May 7, 20197 yr On 2019/04/16 at 10:09 PM, georgelza said: ready to receive a 8 port USB Power hub, 8 port 100Mbps hub and a Din rail for the Raspberry pi's.. 1 x OpenEnergyMonitor 1 x Mqtt Broker and Node-Red hub. G Very nice of your DB, what the name of market place....i want it< please share
May 7, 20197 yr Author Not getting answer back from my sparky. Was a name with a T though, will keep trying. G
May 9, 20197 yr @georgelza Excellent. Really nice setup. 👍 Care to go from top to bottom explaining the items on the white board? Is there anything special about that board or is it just a board?
May 9, 20197 yr Author Just a board... Rail #1 Main Isolator 2 way switch, Grid or Geni ET112 Rail #2 Rail Isolator - 60 Amp Rail Earth Leakage Oven - 40amp Geyser 1 - 20 amp Geyser 1 - Timer Geyser 2 - 20 Amp Geyser 2 - Timer Pool - 20 Amp Rail #3 Rail Isolator - 60 Amp Rail Earth Leakage 5 x Plugs - 20 Amp 3 x Lights - 10 Amp G
May 9, 20197 yr @georgelza, Sorry, I should have been a little clearer. I meant I wanted you to list the non-blue stuff on the white board. Edited May 9, 20197 yr by VisN
May 9, 20197 yr Author ohhh. Lets see, below the 2 x MPPT's - Isolator box. Line comes in, goes into a double pole isolator, into a fuse and then into a disconnect, and out to a bus bar (located bottom right). - same config in other MPPT isolator box. Same bus bar the battery connect to and the inverter. Battery has a quick disconnect/fuse switch, bottom left. Battery goes into this, and then from here to the box bottom right. Box bottom, 2nd from right, contains the VenusGX. G
May 10, 20197 yr Really liking your setup and photos man. Thanks for sharing with us. Definitely bookmarking this thread, as my setup I am planning is going to be *very* close to this.
May 11, 20197 yr Author ... so wanted to edit my post to add this, but can't find the edit button now... For Reference, my installation was done by Eon's team from: Telecom Techniques (Also Service Partner) - 21 Burt Drive, Newton park Port Elizabeth Eon Friend +27 (0)41 365 5073 +27 (0)41 364 0059 [email protected] http://www.teltec.co.za the DB was re-wired by Hans Fourie (083 707 6932) out of Jeffreysbay. I'm happy to recommend both groups without any reservations, the work speaks for itself. G
May 19, 20197 yr Author A before and after cleanup of the IoT board, not done yet, some trunking is to be fitted. Still deciding if I'm going to move my RPi with Home Assistant here.. to the board or if I will leave it in the study. The sonoff 4C at top will be used to switch some contractors (yet to be bought) via either a sonoff based schedule or a Nore-Red build schedule that will control the Oven, Geyser1, Geyser2 and the pool, Already in place / installed this weekend. sonoff/basic (+BME280) - Garage right Light - on timer sonoff/basic - Garage left Light - on timer sonoff/basic (+DHT22) - Girl room bed side light - on timer (they forget to switch it off/repeateded) sonoff/basic (+DHT2) - Boy room bed side light - on timer (they forget to switch it off/repeateded) sonoff/POW R2 - Dishwasher - (will be switched off if Eskom feed is lost) sonoff/POW R2 - Washing Machine - (will be switched off if Eskom feed is lost) sonoff/POW R2 - Tumble Dryer - (will be switched off if Eskom feed is lost) sonoff/POW R2 - Kettle and Toaster - (will be switched off if Eskom feed is lost) sonoff/4C - To be configured to manage 4 x contractors for Pool, Geysers and oven - - (will be switched off if Eskom feed is lost) G
May 20, 20197 yr Author HomeAssistant added (Right hand Rpi, Left : OpenEnergyMonitor)... and fix of a slight OCD problem, had to get the 4C level...
May 20, 20197 yr 3 hours ago, georgelza said: OpenEnergyMonitor, running on a RaspberryPi 3b with a Lechalcal board and SCT-013-000 CT's as load monitor Hi @georgelza Did you get this working as intended? Please the why, where and how. Tx
May 21, 20197 yr Author As for using OEM and SCT-013-000 together, been doing that for a while. What I was able to do the last week, use the OEM NodeRed to subscribe to my Victron, and pull some of those feeds in as topics which is then graphed, but not happy with which feeds I'm using and what they mean, still need to sit with someone and figure out which are the best based on what I want to see. At the moment the numbers I'm seeing does not align up with what I"m thinking I should/want to see. but at least the entire subscribe and push to OEM is working. busy playing with Sonoff's (with BME280 and DMT22's) => MQTT and NodeRed pushing data into InfluxDB at the moment. G
May 21, 20197 yr @georgelza maybe it is just me but I just don't like stuff that generate some heat in boxes. If I was you I would check the temp of the VenusGX on a hot day working hard when it is enclosed in a box.
May 21, 20197 yr 16 minutes ago, The Terrible Triplett said: maybe it is just me but I just don't like stuff that generate some heat in boxes. If you use the WiFi on the Venus-GX, definitely leave it outside! Also, it has an sdcard reader and a USB plug and if I want to get to it I don't want to unscrew things first... 🙂 But if dust-tightness is a concern, then by all means put it in a box.
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