September 12, 20196 yr My father and I are both installing Victron systems in PTA. His is functional, but needs quite a bit of tidying up, while mine will hopefully be connected in an almost tidy state. A few random pics. Decided to mount the charge controller to the battery cabinet - wanted to keep all the DC in there and minimize the number of devices on the wall.
September 12, 20196 yr Author In my opinion Lithium's most important advantage - lack of fault current. Not having to worry about whether the busbars are too close to each other is so convenient. Excluding some more trunking, this is the only stuff that will be on the wall. Still to be done: Finish both systems Get CoCs for both houses Install smaller geyser elements (my little duplex has a 200 l geyser with a 4 kW element, crazy!) Install 25 A contactors to control geysers Install Sonoffs to control geyser contactors Have a Raspberry PI monitor the Venus to see when the battery is fully charged in the morning, and then switch the geyser on.
September 12, 20196 yr 17 minutes ago, Tacet said: Still to be done: You wont believe me.. I was just busy typing you a mail to find out how the installation is coming on.
September 12, 20196 yr Author 5 minutes ago, Jaco de Jongh said: You wont believe me.. I was just busy typing you a mail to find out how the installation is coming on. My father's is ticking along really nicely - I'm keeping the grid breaker on for those occasional inrushes and for when the oven, kettle and geyser are on simultaneously - but other than that they don't really use much from the grid. Mine took a bit longer - I'm not going to climb onto my double storey's roof, so had someone install the panels for me. They did that this Tuesday.
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