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Brian_G

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Neuk_ said:
Might be best to get a gas installer in and get the to inspect and advise or contact @Sinbad's phantom fire chief.
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Not at the moment - we had a recent leak in one of the pipes (properly fixed it though), so only when we can afford a full replacement if needed.

Anyway, only one full unit and one low, the other two are empty.
 
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Neuk_ said:
It will be a while before we look at replacing the electric geysers, I spec'd our inverter/battery/solar system to handle the electric geysers although I do need to put in smaller elements and smart switches to be able to more easily run one after the other. At the moment they have 3kW elements and are connected to a single geyser timer meaning the only way to separate them is via their CB's, which is fine except when I am not home.
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I would love a 1kW element.
 
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Neuk_ said:
It would take forever to heat the geyser though? I'll most likely go for 2kw elements, it would enable me to run both at the same time if I needed to.
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at 2.5kW I need 31 minutes to get that 40 Gal geyser up to 75 degrees and keep it there for the day. With a 1kW element I can run that geyser the whole day even with rain just on Solar.
 
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Magnum said:
at 2.5kW I need 31 minutes to get that 40 Gal geyser up to 75 degrees and keep it there for the day. With a 1kW element I can run that geyser the whole day even with rain just on Solar.
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Wtf are you cooking in it? :unsure:
 
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Magnum said:
at 2.5kW I need 31 minutes to get that 40 Gal geyser up to 75 degrees and keep it there for the day. With a 1kW element I can run that geyser the whole day even with rain just on Solar.
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Bloody hell! Ours take around an hour to an hour and a half with 3kw elements.
 
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Magnum said:
at 2.5kW I need 31 minutes to get that 40 Gal geyser up to 75 degrees and keep it there for the day. With a 1kW element I can run that geyser the whole day even with rain just on Solar.
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You'll never have a hot shower or bath with a 1kw element. It just won't heat up fast enough.
 
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Priapus said:
You'll never have a hot shower or bath with a 1kw element. It just won't heat up fast enough.
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Maybe 2 elements? A 3kw (or 2kw) element to heat it up, then the 1kw to keep it there.

Should work... but nah, I'll just stick to gas or solar geysers.
 
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I swapped out my 4kW element for a 2kW element, so that I can power it using the sun, without needing the grid or my batteries. It takes about 2 hours to take 150L from 36C to 65C. There is a solar plate on the roof as well, so that speeds the process up a little.

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Hard to believe that from January until now we did more than 250 hours of loadshedding and power failures...

We're making plans to mitigate the issues, will move a couple of our critical VM's over to cloud, and have the office go dark over weekends.

Should shave off a couple of liters from our diesel consumption.
 
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1nsane! said:
I swapped out my 4kW element for a 2kW element, so that I can power it using the sun, without needing the grid or my batteries. It takes about 2 hours to take 150L from 36C to 65C. There is a solar plate on the roof as well, so that speeds the process up a little.

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This is running both our geysers yesterday from 11:30 but I switched the pool off...

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This is running one geyser then the next today from just after 12:00 but I left the pool running...

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joshuatree

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Melkbosstrand haven't had load shedding for this week yet.

REASON - they are busy at Koeberg.

Rejoice...
 
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wingnut771 said:
I guess its over guys, no more updates:
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Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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So much for the shift to 4 by Thursday too. Haven't had power the whole ****ing day again. Stupid solar system can't be installed fast enough, have all the **** filling my garages, just need the guys to find time to do the install.
 
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At this rate it seems like they might just keep us at stage 6 for awhile.
 
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