January 30, 20215 yr Sunsynk 5 kW, two Pylontech 2000's, twelve 355 w panels, have cut my usage down to 35 kWh, before solar i was around 600 kWh per month
January 30, 20215 yr Author OK gents so looks like I have gotten everything lined up, now just the wait for the install
January 31, 20215 yr 21 hours ago, Tariq said: Sunsynk 5 kW, two Pylontech 2000's, twelve 355 w panels, have cut my usage down to 35 kWh, before solar i was around 600 kWh per month Thanks, @Tariq. Seems I got the wrong kit. Halved usage from 400kWh to 200 per month. An expensive UPS!
January 31, 20215 yr I have become an electricity scrooge, hate to use the grid at all, the 35 kWh, it is mostly the current draw for zero export, probably will change in winter, with cloudy/rainy weather. Had to train the wife to use washing machine/tumble dryer/dishwasher when there is enough solar production ps Also have a gas stove, so that helps Edited January 31, 20215 yr by Tariq
February 20, 20215 yr Author Right so things have moved along and I have what I'm thinking is a decent plan. A blue install with 10Kva Quattro, 9 kw of panels , about 40% west 60% north and 14 kwh of pylontechs. I've also started setting up my home assistant to play well with the Victron gear, and do things like control various heavy loads like geysers, stoves etc based on SOC, solar output etc etc. (Still need to figure out how / if my home assistant can actually change settings on the modbus, based on the scenarios I want to do) What I'm now wondering is if it might be worth going through the pain of COJ SSEG registration, and then config my system to use battery only during expensive peaks and load shedding periods, then sell my daytime excess (I'm expecting a little bit especially around Mid day - 4pm) to offset using Eskom from about midnight till when my solar picks up again. Has anyone done this recently and can give me some tips to avoid what I expect to be quite a painful process, or if this would even be worth the hassle? I've seen past posts where consensus is this is a waste of time, just wanted to know if this is still the prevailing view
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