W@P's Solar System

Steijn1 said:
Thanks. Much appreciated.

I am not 100% sure but I think so.
Last night I could not get the inverter to "see" the generator at all. Just nothing on the AUX port and on the Grid side with the change over switch.
This morning the first thing I did was connect the earth from the GEN port to the earth of the GRID port. Then connected the generator to the AUX port and the inverter connected to the generator. The problem was it only stayed connected for a short while before it would disconnect with a audible click.
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I will validate it in few weeks' time with my kabookie install.
 
Btw, can anyone suggest the work mode settings we should use on my fathers backup system?
He has no panels atm, purely a backup system. Not sure if we should cycle them every night or only when the power is out?
 
W@P said:
Btw, can anyone suggest the work mode settings we should use on my fathers backup system?
He has no panels atm, purely a backup system. Not sure if we should cycle them every night or only when the power is out?
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With the current state of LS I'd let LS cycle them... when are panels anticipated to be installed?
 
W@P said:
Btw, can anyone suggest the work mode settings we should use on my fathers backup system?
He has no panels atm, purely a backup system. Not sure if we should cycle them every night or only when the power is out?
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Hubble AM-2s, so cycle them every week to at least 40-50%. I do that with my kabookie install whilst I wait for panel mounts (for almost 2 months now), great that I can see and control them using the RIOT and Sunsynk dongle from far.
Edit: I have 3x Hubbles there so stage 2 loadshedding takes them down about 3% every time. Gotta allow them to draw some power from them during non-loadshedding as well.
 
As some of you know I have been battling to figure out what causes the spikes in my father's electrical usage throughout the day and night. He has 2 geysers, one switched off permanently, water is always cold so I know for a fact it's OFF! And the other geyser on a timer. I have a suspicion from the timer was installed that it's either not setup up correctly or it's faulty or something.

The geyser with the timer is set up to turn on at 06:00 and not sure at what time it must turn off. Then it turns on again at around 15:00, also not sure for how long.

This is what a normal day at his place looks like with the domestic present etc.
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There should only be a spike around 06:00 and around 15:00. Not al these 4kW spikes in between.

He went away this last weekend so i have 2 days data with no one at home. This is what it looks like.
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So i figured out that the time frame between the peaks with the red arrows are 6 hours. I will eat my shoe and sh1te on Amber Heards bed if its not the geyser timer fscking around.

What do you think?
 
W@P said:
As some of you know I have been battling to figure out what causes the spikes in my father's electrical usage throughout the day and night. He has 2 geysers, one switched off permanently, water is always cold so I know for a fact it's OFF! And the other geyser on a timer. I have a suspicion from the timer was installed that it's either not setup up correctly or it's faulty or something.

The geyser with the timer is set up to turn on at 06:00 and not sure at what time it must turn off. Then it turns on again at around 15:00, also not sure for how long.

This is what a normal day at his place looks like with the domestic present etc.
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There should only be a spike around 06:00 and around 15:00. Not al these 4kW spikes in between.

He went away this last weekend so i have 2 days data with no one at home. This is what it looks like.
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So i figured out that the time frame between the peaks with the red arrows are 6 hours. I will eat my shoe and sh1te on Amber Heards bed if its not the geyser timer fscking around.

What do you think?
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Affirmative. What geyser timer do you have?
 
W@P said:
As some of you know I have been battling to figure out what causes the spikes in my father's electrical usage throughout the day and night. He has 2 geysers, one switched off permanently, water is always cold so I know for a fact it's OFF! And the other geyser on a timer. I have a suspicion from the timer was installed that it's either not setup up correctly or it's faulty or something.

The geyser with the timer is set up to turn on at 06:00 and not sure at what time it must turn off. Then it turns on again at around 15:00, also not sure for how long.

This is what a normal day at his place looks like with the domestic present etc.
View attachment 1321662
There should only be a spike around 06:00 and around 15:00. Not al these 4kW spikes in between.

He went away this last weekend so i have 2 days data with no one at home. This is what it looks like.
View attachment 1321666
View attachment 1321668
So i figured out that the time frame between the peaks with the red arrows are 6 hours. I will eat my shoe and sh1te on Amber Heards bed if its not the geyser timer fscking around.

What do you think?
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Yup, that's the geyser. My guess would be the timer is on all the time and those spikes are the standing losses being recovered.
 
RonSwanson said:
Affirmative. What geyser timer do you have?
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Speedster said:
Yup, that's the geyser. My guess would be the timer is on all the time and those spikes are the standing losses being recovered.
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Yes either the timer is connected to a breaker that is not actually the geysers or the time is set up incorrectly. I have instructed him to switch off the breaker and will follow up tomorrow and see what's what.
 
RonSwanson said:
Interesting that it is marked 30A, yet the manual states
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I guess that they were referring to an inductive vs resistive load, but as per the graphs that circuit is pulling over 5000W.

Are there any decent timers available to replace it with? I haven't seen any so far, so you might have to use a timer together with a decent relay.
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The graphs I saw show 4kW, or about 17A. CBI astute is my go to timer for geysers
 
Speedster said:
The graphs I saw show 4kW, or about 17A. CBI astute is my go to timer for geysers
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Yeah, i got 2 astutes on my geysers. WIll check his one and see what we gonna do.
 
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