Recent content by Jladan

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    Municipalities owe Eskom R100 billion, while their customers owe them over R400 billion

    City power decided to put our meters up on our poles in the street because they are smart, which they now apparently can't read because someone lost the reader box likely. Anyhoo, I'm now getting estimates 4 - 5x my actual consumption, have a dispute open with COJ and multiple closed calls from...
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    Solar: Cost of equipment & installation

    Unless you super interested in the touch 50 I would drop it, I run my victron from my phone and PC using VRM just fine connected to cerbo
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    Jladans Solar setup

    yup this is exactly what I'm trying to confirm
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    Jladans Solar setup

    So I have a probably very noonish question for the experts, I’m looking at adding more panels , so I’m thinking of just another victron mppt and another 3000w of panels north facing. This will bring my total on the roof to 12000w. What I’m wondering is whether this either overload my batts or...
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    Eskom crisis: ANC NEC hears calls for state of emergency, moving power utility to energy dept

    They will ban smoking, drinking and slops which will solve the issue chop chop
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    Hoymiles Microinverters

    So I’m interested in these for a completely different reason, I’m wondering if I could hook these up as additional panels using ac coupling to my victron setup, additional power can go to batteries to make them charge faster. I only need another 3 - 5 kw on the roof to pretty much be off grid...
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    City Power's repair jobs for overloads and faults caused by Eskom are often interrupted by load-shedding

    Cojs network is pretty much held together by bubble gum and prayer at this point, we been switched over to a completely different block, along with it seems a few other lucky areas , so that block is now completely overloaded , so when our overlords deem us worthy of power we are lucky to get...
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    Jladans Solar setup

    Not sure where the solstice measure thread went for this year , but yesterday wasn’t a bad day considering it was the shortest of the year
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    PSA Lithium in the Winter. (Now that its cold)

    So my house showed -2 outside this morning , batts and cabinet we happy at 16c
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    The Battery Thread (Solar / Inverter)

    I had one my pylons develop a bad cell, sent it in and got a new one after a weeks investigation. Pretty impressed by the service I must admit :)
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

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    Stage 2 strikes back

    Sigh , wouldn’t surprise me to find out the guys with the diesel supply contracts are behind the sabotage , thus ensuring their payday continues unabated
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    JHB voltage drop

    I would expect voltage to move in range as the house increases and drops loads, but dropping down to around 200 or less during peaks is what is making me think something bigger is going on.
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    JHB voltage drop

    So checked again this morning , the voltage drops coincide almost perfectly with morning and evening peaks, we also didn’t come back when loadshedding ended. All pointing towards under capacity in our area I guess
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    JHB voltage drop

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