My solar install is still a work in progress.
Inverter + batteries installed and hooked up to the DB. Pretty much the whole house except over, geysers and 5.5kW aircon.
Still waiting on panels. Initially waited on CoCT SSEG application, now waiting on time from installer.
Anyways, at least for now, loadshedding is a thing of the past.
This shows, a typical day and we had loadshedding from 12-14h00. The pool pump usually start at 10am and run for 4-5 hours. However with some automation from Home Assistant, when loadshedding starts, to save the batteries, the pump is turned off and the 4-5hour timer is paused. Then when power return, a start-up timer of 5 minutes first happen, before resuming the pool pump. Geysers are also on timers, and will also pause for loadshedding. The geyser timers were a nice saving on power usage from eskom.
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This shows the loadshedding from yesterday 12-14h00 and again we got shed at 4-6am this morning.
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Batteries go from 100% to just over 80% in 2 hours then spend just over 4 hours to recharge. I worked out, without solar, we can easily run right through even on stage4 loadshedding. With Stage5 and up I will need that boost from the sun.
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Really can't wait to get the panels added. Having a system like this is pretty much a necessity now that work from home is becoming a standard thing for me and the wife.