Rage quitting Eskom, my setup...

Our goals were pretty much the same too :)

Goals:
1.) Power is a must as we WFH
2.) Pay Eskom as little as possible
3.) Over spec for winter so we can add appliances later / I don't need or want to play solar police
 
Snyper564 said:
well if it unsyncs and you cant top up then on a day when you use eskom you wont be able to
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Is it something that i need to get? I have not had any issues loading units on the meter since my installation was done.
 
W@P said:
Is it something that i need to get? I have not had any issues loading units on the meter since my installation was done.
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Afaik some meters / municipality detect tampering or suspect tampering if you aren't buying credits - so they shut off the supply to your prepaid meter. I was told that registering for SSEG in Cape Town prevents this as the city can then detect you have a solar install and thus won't take action.
 
W@P said:
Is it something that i need to get? I have not had any issues loading units on the meter since my installation was done.
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my unsync day 1 if you top up no issues then you likely ok
 
Here I am thinking we are crazy for dropping R20k on a starting point with just 2.8 KWh of storage... and no solar yet. Congrats! Really professional setup and you must have some big credit kahunas for a battery that big and heavy. I bet you 100% that they had fun trying to unload that battery and get it into position.
 
Snyper564 said:
Ah thats good, I snagged a 4th hubble putting our storage on par with each other just because of planned increases will get additional panels in the future. Beautiful set up and welcome to the club
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That's the great thing about "smaller" bricks, you can add to them in bite-size increments and build the storage up over time, vs mortgaging the home for another 20K storage, when you only need 10.
 
RonSwanson said:
That's the great thing about "smaller" bricks, you can add to them in bite-size increments and build the storage up over time, vs mortgaging the home for another 20K storage, when you only need 10.
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Yep - that was definitely a concern for me - but I decided to rather just add panels later.

I really really wanted the 30kw freedomwon - it was only 45k more than the 20kw but I just couldn’t afford or justify it…
 
shadow_man said:
Yep - that was definitely a concern for me - but I decided to rather just add panels later.

I really really wanted the 30kw freedomwon - it was only 45k more than the 20kw but I just couldn’t afford or justify it…
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That would have compounded the problem even more :ROFL: but that monster you have should be more than enough for a while...
 
So it turns out our area had a power surge at 00:57 last night - which looks like it's fried my mains breaker... (only thing on there is the 1 geyser / electric oven). Having solar / a big battery I didn't notice that I actually had no Eskom feed until 15:30 today...

I didn't find out because my battery was low (it was 100%), but rather because I wanted to manually toggle my geyser on (going to use this as an excuse to dump in timer switches tomorrow when I test / change the break).

There's a nice green / red light on the db which lets me know which feeds are up - and the red light she is off (grid)....

Time to go buy a volt meter tomorrow and test. :ROFL:
 
shadow_man said:
So it turns out our area had a power surge at 00:57 last night - which looks like it's fried my mains breaker... (only thing on there is the 1 geyser / electric oven). Having solar / a big battery I didn't notice that I actually had no Eskom feed until 15:30 today...

I didn't find out because my battery was low (it was 100%), but rather because I wanted to manually toggle my geyser on (going to use this as an excuse to dump in timer switches tomorrow when I test / change the break).

There's a nice green / red light on the db which lets me know which feeds are up - and the red light she is off (grid)....

Time to go buy a volt meter tomorrow and test. :ROFL:
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Maybe get some CBI Astutes for the timers. They work a treat.
 
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