toyeoye:


This makes sense! Strong selling point and reason to get a Victron inverter I guess. While we ponder on this option/save up to get one, we're on our own?

NiyiOmoIyunade:
The Axpert family e.g Felicity, Zinox, Gennex, Sorotec, Phocos, Steca and all their grey market and rebrand ilk have some sort of solar then battery then utility priority built into them.

These also come with decent MPPTs built in.

The problem with the el cheapos is not a lack of features but rather scrimping on protections and critical ratings, poor isolation of the electronics and internals, flaky/buggy behaviour and a lack of robustness to deliver the promised performance long term.

toyeoye:


Got it sir. The fact remains that my units burneth as a flaming fire

tsiriman:


From what I read and understand, you use only grid to charge your batteries, not a combination of grid and solar?

toyeoye:


Both actually, but I think it prioritises the grid.

toyeoye:
Hello good people, I wonder why no one talks about the huge amount of units consumed through charging the batteries if your setup is tied to the grid.
Na die o! in my opinion doesn't make sense right now because the point of going solar is to save money eventually.
This doesn't apply to folks using
only backup generator to supplement production during long stretches of outage.
Please share your experiences, thanks

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earthrealm:


This shouldn't be an issue, if you are using a decent hybrid inverter with adequate solar panels, just set it on solar priority.
if you don't have solar, switching off the inverter so as to use the charged energy in the battery is not a good idea, reeks of ignorance, batteries are not 100% efficient, worse leadacid batteries, they have about average of 75% efficiency while lithium battery has about 95% efficiency. so if you take out 1kwh from leadacid, you would need theoretically about 1.3kwh to replace this energy and may get as high as 1.7kwh, if theprocess starts and stops before the battery is full. while an equivalent lithium battery may take about 1.15kwh .

ojesymsym:
Why not manually switch off the grid power during the day as a makeshift solution?

toyeoye:
Hello good people, I wonder why no one talks about the huge amount of units consumed through charging the batteries if your setup is tied to the grid.
Na die o! in my opinion doesn't make sense right now because the point of going solar is to save money eventually.
This doesn't apply to folks using
only backup generator to supplement production during long stretches of outage.
Please share your experiences, thanks

contease:


You are not alone bro... At some point, I had to look through the grid source lines after my meter to be sure neighbour's are not tapping my line, but of course, it's almost impossible because all cables are conduit just after the meter.

So seating down to analyse, what I see happening is that, we pay for grid even when no national grid.

Assuming you have 100% charge of your battery, and grid goes out to the time your battery becomes 50%, once grid is restored, your battery begins to charge while your appliances are also in use, this process draws so much current to fill in the gap on both the battery and the appliances..., putting off the inverter once grid is off or putting off basic appliances makes no sense otherwise what's the need to having a non stop power supply going solar... The only way out is to use the sun via panels

Sincerely, I think this is it... Let's wait for the SMEs to tell us more!

FEGEITOK:


10k a week without AC,

10k a day if I turn on the AC

ojesymsym:
Why not manually switch off the grid power during the day as a makeshift solution?

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toyeoye:


I've been doing this my guy, it's not just the most convenient. Thanks

zeestone99:


That's why you need our smart inverter.

it's multifunctional settings Allows you to
set priority i.e choose between Grid and battery priority
set charging current from 0 - 30amps
Set different charging voltage parameters
Set equalization mode

Get this if you need that smart rugged inverter that can perform functions close to hybrid.

The battery mode allows you to bypass mains and not charge your battery. This is good for my solar power folks that worry about inverter consuming their phcn units.

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earthrealm:


quite stressful, I know about 3 easy to moderate options.
1. buy a timer switch and put it inline with the inverter, you can then set it to turn off the inverter by 9am when the sun is up and turn off grid charging by 4pm

2. If you have home wireless internet, buy a tuya wifi breaker and put it inline with the breaker, this breaker has timer functions as well as weather related commands -- such as turn off 2hrs or 3hrs after sun rise or sundown, turn off/on when raining/cloudy...etc

3. Get a battery based SOC turn off/on, this device can turn off ya charging based on your battery state of charge. this is a DIY device not off the shelf

FEGEITOK:


In other words, whether I go Canadian or Trina.

I can't go wrong!

Thanks.

NiyiOmoIyunade:
The Axpert family e.g Felicity, Zinox, Gennex, Sorotec, Phocos, Steca and all their grey market and rebrand ilk have some sort of solar then battery then utility priority built into them.

These also come with decent MPPTs built in.

The problem with the el cheapos is not a lack of features but rather scrimping on protections and critical ratings, poor isolation of the electronics and internals, flaky/buggy behavior, and a lack of robustness to deliver the promised performance long term.

toyeoye:
Hello good people, I wonder why no one talks about the huge amount of units consumed through charging the batteries if your setup is tied to the grid.
Na die o! in my opinion doesn't make sense right now because the point of going solar is to save money eventually.
This doesn't apply to folks using
only backup generator to supplement production during long stretches of outage.
Please share your experiences, thanks

bigrovar:

Nope. They are essentially using the same technology and have similar efficiency. The difference between them is pretty much negligible heck Techland sell all of Longi, Canadian Solar, JA and Jingo at the same exact price per watt. In my case, I went with the Canadian solar when I wanted to upgrade because the specification had slightly better heat tolerance but I can assure you, you can't go wrong with either.

tolukemi:
I have considered all my light bulbs in the 232W, so that is 16 light bulbs of 10W and 2 4ft fluorescent tubes of 36W each. I will not use more than 25% of that load on an average day.

I am happy to replace the ceiling fans. I would only run 2 and that would be during the evening/night.

I don't have an AC yet so I will consider an inverter AC when I get round to it.

Thank you very much for your input. I will definitely take your points on energy efficiency on board.

Moneyboyz:
I don't understand these talks about inverter consuming grid power, you guys do not have solar panels?

I've been using 1200w + 5kw lithium with 2kva inverter for over 6 months now without grid power.

samnaija:


My taught exactly, he should beef up his solar panel generation, and switch off the grid meter. I don't on my grid meter at all, unless the weather is very bad..

samnaija:


My taught exactly, he should beef up his solar panel generation, and switch off the grid meter. I don't on my grid meter at all, unless the weather is very bad..

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samnaija:


My taught exactly, he should beef up his solar panel generation, and switch off the grid meter. I don't on my grid meter at all, unless the weather is very bad..