April 19, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, Mistral said: Better than Goodwe? Asking me? I don't know - I came by mine when Reneplus was exiting domestic stuff and selling off their one which is an Infinisolar or close and so got at a great price a coupe of years ago. I have 2. When one breaks I am sure I will go to Victron.
April 19, 20197 yr The Goodwe ES 4.6 is an amazing piece of equipment. I only know of one other person who ever had problems, and that being our own Mike. The unit was swopped out. I have a customer where I installed a Goodwe about I year ago, blasted his sytem in Jan this year by connecting a generator to it. I send it to the supplier for repairs and .............it was just swopped out !! I myself have 4 x 10KW infini's running in parallel for almost two years now and have not had any hassles at all. I am using ICC to monitor it and running Pylontechs, its really trouble free. Only thing is ............................. I am really at a point to un-mount them and having them sprayed blue! Thereafter I am sure they will even by running better, having the right colour !! ( Sorry boys 😜😆 )
April 19, 20197 yr Author Sounds good! Did you see the post from an installer - Tokolosh - in the Goodwe rant thread who has done 147 Goodwe in SA but was unhappy about the level of support he received for some clients? Edited April 19, 20197 yr by Mistral
April 19, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, Mistral said: Blue is my favourite colour on the forum nowadays! Blue it's my new obsession Yeah, blue it's not even a question... 🙂 The rest of the lyrics gets a little weird though...
April 19, 20197 yr 56 minutes ago, plonkster said: Blue it's my new obsession Have you turned DA Plonkie? 😋
April 19, 20197 yr 49 minutes ago, Chris-R said: Have you turned DA Plonkie? 😋 I'm actually going to "waste" my vote on a small party (ie in that respect I am moving away from the blue side)... 🙂 Cause we have proportional representation.
April 20, 20197 yr 11 hours ago, plonkster said: The slave follows the master exactly down to the PWM modulation of the AC output. Gee. How crude. It sounds like this is an area where the Axperts are better. With those current sharing cables, they seem to attempt to share the load properly. I also suspect but have not proven that they can sensibly share a load between a 4 kW and a 5 kW inverter (both with a 5 kVA rating).
April 20, 20197 yr 12 hours ago, Chris-R said: Half blue .. Half Green ?? Half-blue-half-red. 7 hours ago, Coulomb said: Gee. How crude. Low frequency setup. Simple is beautiful 🙂
April 20, 20197 yr On 2019/04/19 at 7:50 AM, Blinkwater9 said: If I am not mistaken, the AXPERT / MECER /MPP and a few others are all made by VOLTRONIC? As I understand, VOLTRONIC is the manufacturer, and each of the suppliers brands the units with their name? The MECER is imported by MUSTEK? Yes, Voltronic manufactures these inverters and places like Mustel import and rebrand them. MPP solar is a different company though
April 20, 20197 yr On 2019/04/19 at 7:55 AM, Blinkwater9 said: I'm at the same point, where I am negotiating the virtual minefield of inverters, and which will suit my needs/budget? Hours and hours spent reading posts and watching YOUTUBE videos, and sadly, I feel more confused now then when I started. As soon as I find a unit I think will be a great purchase, the unit is either not available locally, or wat too costly for my available cash? I can import, as I am a licensed importer, but then run the risk of purchasing something with little to no back-up locally? Sure. Why not? I know many people import much more costly SuperMicro and Dell servers with the same viewpoint as well. You should be able to import the control board as well if you want to
April 20, 20197 yr 19 hours ago, Chris-R said: The Goodwe ES 4.6 is an amazing piece of equipment. I only know of one other person who ever had problems, and that being our own Mike. The unit was swopped out. I have a customer where I installed a Goodwe about I year ago, blasted his sytem in Jan this year by connecting a generator to it. I send it to the supplier for repairs and .............it was just swopped out !! I myself have 4 x 10KW infini's running in parallel for almost two years now and have not had any hassles at all. I am using ICC to monitor it and running Pylontechs, its really trouble free. Only thing is ............................. I am really at a point to un-mount them and having them sprayed blue! Thereafter I am sure they will even by running better, having the right colour !! ( Sorry boys 😜😆 ) Please tell me more about the generator connection which caused damage. Was it a compatibility issue, or what happened?
April 20, 20197 yr 4 hours ago, SilverNodashi said: Sure. Why not? I know many people import much more costly SuperMicro and Dell servers with the same viewpoint as well. You should be able to import the control board as well if you want to This is my point? If you import the dam thing, and something goes wrong, you basically screwed? Seems though, as far as warrantee claims are concerned, in many cases you're screwed anyway! LOL.
April 20, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, Blinkwater9 said: This is my point? If you import the dam thing, and something goes wrong, you basically screwed? Seems though, as far as warrantee claims are concerned, in many cases you're screwed anyway! LOL. Well, then get one locally. Mine outlived it's warranty already. And I know many people who's have as well.
April 21, 20197 yr 16 hours ago, Blinkwater9 said: This is my point? If you import the dam thing, and something goes wrong, you basically screwed? Seems though, as far as warrantee claims are concerned, in many cases you're screwed anyway! LOL. Voltronic is what you call an OEM manufacturer. They make things for other people. The beauty of such a setup is that the other guy has to support the product (in exchange for his name on the cover). If that guy is a big one (eg Steca) you might be okay. But it is a whole different ball game to getting support straight from the manufacturer. Not to mention firmware updates, 3rd level support directly from the R & D department for particularly elusive problems... of course those things cost money :-)
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