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Message: <blockquote data-quote="handsome" data-source="post: 1142527" data-attributes="member: 772">Dropping your eskom bill means using more of your system’s power than eskom’s. so you want to fiddle with the “time of use” settings. In those you decide how much percentage of battery power you want to use and how much you keep in reserve. During the day assuming sun, the panels will do almost all the work. At night you can choose to use a lot of battery (it should be at 100% at sundown) snd take the load off your eskom bill - the disadvantage is should there be loadshedding you will have less battery charge to use. Gosolr set my battery to stay at 100% at night which means from sunset to sunrise I would use only eskom. I changed the settings to a more reasonable 70% till 11pm then 60% till dawn. A geyser timer probably will help - set the geyser to not be able to operate all through the nighttime (i set mine to come on for just an hour in the mornings so I can shower) so it doesn’t eat into your battery charge, plus timers are very cheap to install.i am curious about your extra 2 panels - did not know this was an option - how much is your rental for your system?</blockquote>