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Hi MyBB

After a lot of research spending countless of hours on the forum and powerforum I have bit the bullet on a solar installation.
Will keep you updated on progress

Here are the spec of my system:

Installer: Cudub Holdings
Inverter: Sunsynk 12kw 3 phase inverter
Panels: X16 550w Canadian Solar in East/West config.
Batteries: X2 4.96kw Greenrich Batteries from Marcel's Solar solutions.
Cost: Approx R225k

Inverter and panels will be delievered on Wednesday and I am going to pickup the batteries this week.
Installation is expected on the 24th of October.
 
milan188 said:
Hi MyBB

After a lot of research spending countless of hours on the forum and powerforum I have bit the bullet on a solar installation.
Will keep you updated on progress

Here are the spec of my system:

Installer: Cudub Holdings
Inverter: Sunsynk 12kw 3 phase inverter
Panels: X16 550w Canadian Solar in East/West config.
Batteries: X2 4.96kw Greenrich Batteries from Marcel's Solar solutions.
Cost: Approx R225k

Inverter and panels will be delievered on Wednesday and I am going to pickup the batteries this week.
Installation is expected on the 24th of October.
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No chance of a north facing install for some of the panels?
 
milan188 said:
Hi MyBB

After a lot of research spending countless of hours on the forum and powerforum I have bit the bullet on a solar installation.
Will keep you updated on progress

Here are the spec of my system:

Installer: Cudub Holdings
Inverter: Sunsynk 12kw 3 phase inverter
Panels: X16 550w Canadian Solar in East/West config.
Batteries: X2 4.96kw Greenrich Batteries from Marcel's Solar solutions.
Cost: Approx R225k

Inverter and panels will be delievered on Wednesday and I am going to pickup the batteries this week.
Installation is expected on the 24th of October.
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Do you perhaps know what the max power per phase on that inverter would be?
 
Mzezman said:
No chance of a north facing install for some of the panels?
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Limited space and more expensive because it was going to be on a flat roof.

I am not too worried about that. My usage during peak times is not too high and prefer the longer hours a East West config gives. The installer showed me some data of similar configs and I am happy with the expected performance.
 
Speedster said:
Do you perhaps know what the max power per phase on that inverter would be?
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When grid is not available it's up to 6kw on one of the phases and the balance on the other phases (so remainder 6kw can be split anyway with max of 4kw and 2kw on the other phases)

When the grid is available, there is a passthrough amps thats is allowed above 12kw which I am hoping I do not run into issues with.
 
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Interesting, my FIL has the 12kw 3-phase SunSynk with three Hubble AM-2's and will be adding a fourth soon, I am keen to see how the Greenrich's batteries do as a friend had just installed four at his house.
 
Neuk_ said:
Interesting, my FIL has the 12kw 3-phase SunSynk with three Hubble AM-2's and will be adding a fourth soon, I am keen to see how the Greenrich's batteries do as a friend had just installed four at his house.
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They seem to be everywhere at the moment. I also bought 1 for my 8k sunsynk and so far its been doing its thing.
 
Neuk_ said:
Interesting, my FIL has the 12kw 3-phase SunSynk with three Hubble AM-2's and will be adding a fourth soon, I am keen to see how the Greenrich's batteries do as a friend had just installed four at his house.
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Will keep you updated. Cost and support were my main areas when looking for a battery.

This battery combo will be able to handle a 12kw load without needing 12kw of 1C batteries or 24kw of 0.5C batteries so that's why I went with it.
 
Any advice on what to check or ask the installer on Monday?
 
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First 8 panels panels went up facing west.

Most of the work is going to be done tomorrow.

A slight change of plan. After some deliberation I have decided to use my north facing flat roof and I will be adding the remaining 8 panels there which will be mounted on angles and blocks.
 
milan188 said:
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First 8 panels panels went up facing west.

Most of the work is going to be done tomorrow.

A slight change of plan. After some deliberation I have decided to use my north facing flat roof and I will be adding the remaining 8 panels there which will be mounted on angles and blocks.
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House install does not have North facing roof, all installed on East facing.
Works like a charm. By 9am we have full sun facing panels.
 
Katelknaap said:
Wowser, that's a serious DB board, you must have a pretty large place.
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It is quite large there is actually two of them. Most of the space is taken up by Bus controllers for the lights. This is old home automation tech before Sonoff and stuff became popular.
 
HowTo said:
House install does not have North facing roof, all installed on East facing.
Works like a charm. By 9am we have full sun facing panels.
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I noticed with my West facing panels they were getting good sun from 9am and probably getting full sun by 10am. I think my production will have a slow start but ramp nicely in the day before tapering off in the late afternoon.
 
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