Good day, can someone please advise or guide me with a solar installation that is not up to standard, NM COC issued, & installer does not want to come fix/rectify any problems. I have cut communication with him now & as last resort popped in here before getting an attorney involved.
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Solar installer problems
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wingnut771
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Pics or it didn't happen.
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Basically pics of the installation and a brief story of what happened and what you are not happy with.
wingnut771
Honorary Master
That don't look good:
Oh thanks. So last year May got LD technical projects to install a solar system. 2×5kva luxpower inverters, 3×4.8kw Nenergy batteries, 14×550watt Canadian solar panels. From the get go i told him 1 batteries seems faulty. So a month later 1st main fuse burnt, December second time fuse & cable burnt. (Both times he came & only replaced fuse & that wire) Inverters not sharing load on battery but share load on Eskom. 100ah battery FCC shows 62.2ah now. The other 2 shows FCC 100.6ah. Got a 3rd party to do over inspection & oh my word! The installer still does not want to repair, replaced, correct poor workmanship
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Looks like the cable is undersized for that to happen.
DuracellBunny
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Only saw that ever happening to battery cable is excessive current being pulled, looks like the fuses also fused to the housing.Where are you situated also?
Hold up, you have the inverters in parallel but separate battery banks
Are the inverters both connected to separate loads on your house or are they sharing the load like how they receive power from Eskom?
if you have inverters in parallel and are sharing the load and the batteries are on separate banks then there is your problem for fuses popping, cable burning.
Hold up, you have the inverters in parallel but separate battery banks
Are the inverters both connected to separate loads on your house or are they sharing the load like how they receive power from Eskom?if you have inverters in parallel and are sharing the load and the batteries are on separate banks then there is your problem for fuses popping, cable burning.
All 3 batteries go into DC box, from there to inverters. I dont have the drawings nor do i want to open trunking as it could lead to stories of tampering. So the way i understand my system is: inverters do everything, PV to inverter, inverter to battery. Battery to inverter, inverter to AC main DB in house. My entire house runs from this systemOnly saw that ever happening to battery cable is excessive current being pulled, looks like the fuses also fused to the housing.Where are you situated also?
Hold up, you have the inverters in parallel but separate battery banks
if you have inverters in parallel and are sharing the load and the batteries are on separate banks then there is your problem for fuses popping, cable burning.
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Why only 2 fuses if there are 3 batteries?
Can you take wider angle pics so we get a better picture of the setup?
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Looks to me that you have 300A of battery going through 200A of fuses. So the installer ran away? Seems like an easy fix to add some busbars and thicker cable.
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Is this the correct fuse? My layman eyes tells me 500V is a bit much?
wingnut771
Honorary Master
Looks like a nice setup. You're almost there!
I would recommend you sanitize the document your name and surname are on there unless you dont care.
likely need an attorney more than anything else not going to be a cheap route unfortunately...
LandyMan
Honorary Master
Recommended by? That makes a big difference