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I had a Honda (6kVA with AVR if I remember correctly) and it was a horrible experience. Noisy pollution are thoughts that come to mind. The running costs during load shedding is also not good, since most of the time its running a few LED light bulbs. It also could not power a digital cappuccino...

Not sure how your friend can save R4200 a month from a R140k solar system? Also, there is no ways that our solar system can pay for itself in single digit number of years. Its not even a serious calculation that I made when we considered going solar. For us its more that we could not afford to...

Chris, yes I would very much like to become totally free from ESKOM power - at our new place though. We currently have Eskom connectivity and I don’t see us giving up the connection as for when we sell our existing house, the new owners may prefer the hybrid setup. At our planeed new place, we...

and then our government went and did this

Yep, it was/is me.

@mygoggie UPDATE: All good since around 10:30 yesterday morning. Here is yesterday’s and today’s graphs which is the most normal day so far. I had to change some settings shortly after 05:00 this morning though - the training manual I have isn’t formulated correctly.

Thanks guys for all your advice. I'd like to get the ideal settings and I'm sure that what I want, is pretty much what most owners would like to get from their hybrid system - simply optimum use and longevity. I'll bounce these issues off my installer if he does pitch on Sunday, however I get...

Yep, I'll have to check that everything works as we want it before he leaves on Sunday :cautious:

The installer informed me that he cannot come and sort it out today, but will do it rather on Sunday. Well, so be it then. Its just such a disappointment when installers fault-find their install along the way - by means of you as the owner pointing out these things to them.

The other 7 settings pics (one can only attach 10 pics in one post it seems)

According to the displays, the PV panels are only charging the Batts and not passing on the surplus to any kind of load, be it essential or not. So it seems like Eskom is still powering everything, but just not charging the batteries. Ok, these are the initial settings which my installer set...

Ok thanks. My installer set it so that it only charges the batteries for now and said he will get the system fully functioning this afternoon when he stops by. I am however perplexed by the UPS thing, not sure what it is. The Eskom grid inflow does not show to flow to the house icon, which I...

Whats wrong with these pictures guys?

Ok, finally some progress and something to report on and show. In short, my installer was busy with other jobs this whole week and dropped off the inverter last night on their way home. They started around 10:30 this morning and completed the install just before 17:00. We switched over/ON...

Thanks Herman (and the other guys) for all the advice and tips. I am taking it all on board and will check everything and its good to have additional knowledge in order to get the right end result. We would like to limit the panels to one roof section if possible and we do realize that it won't...

To be fair, the bearers/rails weren't installed yet and some of them were just placed there loosely when I took that particular pic. Hehe, I'm the solar Geyser service guy. We have 2 and check as well as flush them twice a year or so. I installed ball valves in order to make the flushing...

You guys are correct, in that the slant of the roof as well as the 2 panels between the roof and solar geyser panels are not ideal. It was done for cosmetic reasons, as well as to get the panels as close as possible to the Inverter and batteries. We (the wife and I) would like the panels to be...

Thanks @Gerlach . No its not Mike, its Philip Geldenhuys from Dikaios Solar, relatively close by in Dwarskersbos. We support 'local' as far as possible around here and its better to hand over a quarter of a bar and wait, to someone you know. 🤑

Thanks for your interest F_D. Its 14x 545W panels and 3x Freedom Won E-Tower LiFePO4 5kWh batteries for now. Thanks for the words of encouragement. Its a lot of money upfront, but hopefully we will recoup most of the cost when we sell this house in the next year or three. The solar geysers sure...

I've been so jealous of all the members with their awesome solar installs, but finally I'm almost done with our 1st phase of the install. We will be building a new house down the road in the foreseeable future, so did not want to go overboard with this install, yet do a decent enough job with...