Geyser timer solution for solar

duderoo said:
thats the geyser and you can see I am on the cusp, but had to turn the freezers off for 30min. With the solar geyser panels not facing north they are useless

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Why would you turn the freezers off? You know they don't run all the time either? If they do there is a problem, even with running they are at most 100w
 
duderoo said:
I turned it on manually, on at about 12:30pm and ran it till 1:55pm
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Tomorrow, turn it on at 2pm and see if it runs for same amount of time, lets see what another 1.5 hours does with solar geyser. Make sure those mixer basin taps are still set to cold. :P
 
wingnut771 said:
Tomorrow, turn it on at 2pm and see if it runs for same amount of time, lets see what another 1.5 hours does with solar geyser. Make sure those mixer basin taps are still set to cold. :P
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It will eat into battery though
 
3:30pm and up 15% on battery not sure I am gonna see the 100% today1779715765987.png
 
Lupus said:
Why would you turn the freezers off? You know they don't run all the time either? If they do there is a problem, even with running they are at most 100w
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This @duderoo you kind of shot your self in the foot - because you switched it off it had to work harder when you switched it on - keeping freezers closed is more effective then switching it off and opening and closing the freezer doors.
With your panels being east / west you may need to change your times, as your curve will be different to us with North panels , you may need to shift that geyser switch on / off earlier - (or later but as you home later and probably use more in the evening I would say earlier) - but definitely look at its temp
 
isie said:
This @duderoo you kind of shot your self in the foot - because you switched it off it had to work harder when you switched it on - keeping freezers closed is more effective then switching it off and opening and closing the freezer doors.
With your panels being east / west you may need to change your times, as your curve will be different to us with North panels , you may need to shift that geyser switch on / off earlier - (or later but as you home later and probably use more in the evening I would say earlier) - but definitely look at its temp
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Yeah people will stubbornly stick to 70 degrees even when it's costing money. Plus technically the geyser doesn't like being that high all the time. That sacrifical anode doesn't like it that high. Plus the pressure release valve will work more. Essentially letting out warm water
 
Lupus said:
Yeah people will stubbornly stick to 70 degrees even when it's costing money. Plus technically the geyser doesn't like being that high all the time. That sacrifical anode doesn't like it that high. Plus the pressure release valve will work more. Essentially letting out warm water
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There is no proof of that
 
Lupus said:
Yeah people will stubbornly stick to 70 degrees even when it's costing money. Plus technically the geyser doesn't like being that high all the time. That sacrifical anode doesn't like it that high. Plus the pressure release valve will work more. Essentially letting out warm water
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definitely picked up the pressure valve issue when i let it go to 70
 
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