Eskom power cuts will continue this weekend

AlphaJohn

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Last time I checked, solar shines during the day, solar charges battery during the day, then you use the battery at night:

Here are my stats:
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Since installation in Nov 2021, have not suffered an outage during load shedding.
Well clearly you talking about Off grid and not just solar on UPS

Cause power goes off in evening and mostly returns at 22h00 where the UPS will start charging, by the time the sun is up it would be charged already ie: making you Solar comment null.
 

mpdjhb

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Last time I checked, solar shines during the day, solar charges battery during the day, then you use the battery at night:

Here are my stats:
View attachment 1312572 View attachment 1312568

Since installation in Nov 2021, have not suffered an outage during load shedding.
How many batteries (or rather how many kwh in your batteries)?
I can barely get to 65% solar vs grid - then again we quite heavy on power use.
 

Herr der Verboten

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Eskom power cuts this weekend as cold front rolls in

Eskom has announced that Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented between 17:00 and 22:00 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the 21st and 22nd of May 2022.

The power utility had previously expected to run load-shedding until Friday. However, there is still a substantial shortage of generation capacity, resulting in Eskom having to extend the power cuts.
Stem DA! Net die een keer en hulle wen vir jou!
 

Apogee

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Eskom extends power cuts for Saturday and Sunday

Eskom has announced that power cuts on Saturday and Sunday will now start at 08:00 and run until 22:00.

"This is done to preserve the current diesel stocks and an attempt to contain the amount of load-shedding," the state-owned power utility said.
When I saw the notification come through on EskomsePush, I thought Jan must be typing away furiously now. :laugh:
 

Hd7

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This right here is the problem even with solar. Tomorrow we will all be seeing the posts about "how many hours to charge my batteries"

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Solitude

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Sigh, there goes my Sunday game time. I get so little time to game and then Eskom just pee all over it.
 

RudderVator

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Might improve when one of the Koeberg units return in June. But it's a very strong "might"...
Dont worry. Will sabotage 5 extra units to make sure we make up that surplus.

Imagine the kind of low level mentality person that would sabotage a coal power station working in a nuclear station:oops:
 

system32

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Well clearly you talking about Off grid and not just solar on UPS

Cause power goes off in evening and mostly returns at 22h00 where the UPS will start charging, by the time the sun is up it would be charged already ie: making you Solar comment null.
Not off grid, I have a 20kWh whole home UPS connected to solar PV.
Use grid when it rains for a whole day.
 
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Agent_Smith

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Eskom extends power cuts for Saturday and Sunday

Eskom has announced that power cuts on Saturday and Sunday will now start at 08:00 and run until 22:00.

"This is done to preserve the current diesel stocks and an attempt to contain the amount of load-shedding," the state-owned power utility said.

Argh, I missed this post. So imagine my surprise (and confusion) when the power went off just now. Fml...
 
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