jonescosmos:


You definitely did get the wrong model, Please get LG Dual Inverter GenCool B

LG Smart Inverter has about 50%-60% Energy Saving while LG Dual Inverter has 70% and LG Dual Inverter GenCool B has even more than 70% and can retain the Gen Mode memory after power loss. That's a function we upvoted to have over the years.

Is this better than Thermocool Gen Pal Inverter AC?

mctfopt:


Is this better than Thermocool Gen Pal Inverter AC?

No comparison. Instead of buying that thermocool, get a hisense inverter AC if you're on a budget.
LG anyday anytime since Panasonic don turn big man AC.

mctfopt:


Is this better than Thermocool Gen Pal Inverter AC?

Thermocool Ac is a learner please.

I have ground earthing the normal one they do wen they wire house

Sapiosexuality:
I'm really interested in knowing how this happened if there is Earthing

I don't know if it is transformer base

TechGeek777:


Na Transformer inverter abi?

I asked b/c of people wey dey praise Transformer Inverter like say na odeshi dey inside.

osayuwamwen:
I don't know if it is transformer base

I'm seriously suspecting a poor earthing job

The inverter was on last night but the Felicity controller was already at sleep even b4 the rain started, immediately the thunder struck the whole light went off and my inverter was just making a continuous beeping sound the display on the body went blank only the fan was working I switched it off and waited for sometime then put it back on same beeping sound with only fan work and display blank I didn't even know it also affected my Felicity controller only till this morning wen the controller didn't wake up

Sapiosexuality:
I'm really interested in knowing how this happened if there is Earthing

GeorgeD1:


twinskenny,
the money you spend now is like a 25yr savings account which keeps appreciating. imagine
what the cost of fuel per litre will be in another 10yrs? imagine what games nepa will be
playing with public power supply by then? your guess is as good as mine!

Yes o ogami wisdom

osayuwamwen:
The inverter was on last night but the Felicity controller was already at sleep even b4 the rain started, immediately the thunder struck the whole light went off and my inverter was just making a continuous beeping sound the display on the body went blank only the fan was working I switched it off and waited for sometime then put it back on same beeping sound with only fan work and display blank I didn't even know it also affected my Felicity controller only till this morning wen the controller didn't wake up

So sorry bro.
The strike probably happened to both AC and DC Circuits, That's why you should have both DC and AC SPDs tied to proper earthing, and Also ground your panels.

osayuwamwen:
Lighting killed my inverter and Felicity controller last night, am so pained

Is there an Arrestor? Is it properly done? Did you ground the solar panels?

jonescosmos:



So sorry bro.
The strike probably happened to both AC and DC Circuits, That's why you should have both DC and AC SPDs tied to proper earthing, and Also ground your panels.

Besides this, are there other things that may make it easy for lightening to kill an inverter especially when the house you stay in has earthing?

twinskenny:

Is there an Arrestor? Is it properly done? Did you ground the solar panels?

By arrestor, you mean Surge protector, right?

icjunior:
My 2500 smarten inverter couldn't properly power my 1hp inverter LG AC unit.

It would power on and the compressor would pick up,but within few minutes,the overload protection of the smarten inverter kicks in showing that I'm running at 104% of the inverter capacity.

What could be the problem please?

PS: The AC was the only appliance running on the smarten inverter as at then.

And the load % on the inverter was increasing gradually till it got to that 104%.

So I got a remote and put the AC on gen mode,and even though it doesn't chill like the normal mode,my 2500 inverter was able to power it well with my fridge,TV and other loads.

Inverter usage % was fluctuating between 51%-63%

Sapiosexuality:
By arrestor, you mean Surge protector, right?

No I mean lightning Arrestor that’s usually on top of the roof

twinskenny:


No I mean lightning Arrestor that’s usually on top of the roof

Okay I see. Just saw one on our roof. Photo Attached. If I have this, I bet I'm fine, right? Or there's more?

jonescosmos:


Thermocool Ac is a learner please.

In this same platform, some have said Thermocool inverter AC (Gen Pal series) is more energy efficient than LG inverter

PotatoSalad:

No comparison. Instead of buying that thermocool, get a hisense inverter AC if you're on a budget.
LG anyday anytime since Panasonic don turn big man AC.

Have you actually seen Thermocool inverter AC (Gen Pal) at work and compared it's energy efficiency against LG inverter series AC? In science, I love to see concrete evidence of some things before I conclude.

From my own experience, the hisense inverter AC is fine for the first 2 - 3 years, after that, cooling and power efficiency go down the drain. Now looking to replace. Thermocool has been hyped for the low power consumption, don't know if anyone can attest to its longevity.

PotatoSalad:

No comparison. Instead of buying that thermocool, get a hisense inverter AC if you're on a budget.
LG anyday anytime since Panasonic don turn big man AC.

mctfopt:


Have you actually seen Thermocool inverter AC (Gen Pal) at work and compared it's energy efficiency against LG inverter series AC? In science, I love to see concrete evidence of some things before I conclude.

litaninja:
From my own experience, the hisense inverter AC is fine for the first 2 - 3 years, after that, cooling and power efficiency go down the drain. Now looking to replace. Thermocool has been hyped for the low power consumption, don't know if anyone can attest to its longevity.

I have 3 hisense and 1 LG inverter ACs in the house.
My technician came for maintenance in February and said oga your ACs are still good as new. Maintain them well and nothing will happen to them. Hisense Inverter ACs are called mortuary standard for a reason. Used thermocool before. Low power consumption, yes but they don't chill that well.

osayuwamwen:
I don't know if it is transformer base

This is low frequency transformer inverter

twinskenny:

Is there an Arrestor? Is it properly done? Did you ground the solar panels?

Some Inverter don't recommend grounding pv

Greetings to the house. Can i connect 9pieces of jinko 580w panel [ 51v VOc @STC] total 459v to a growatt spf 5000es[max voc 450v] and just hope that cable losses, environmental conditions will clip the extra 9volts or more. Is it a bad gamble?

kristien4:
Greetings to the house. Can i connect 9pieces of jinko 580w panel [ 51v VOc @STC] total 459v to a growatt spf 5000es[max voc 450v] and just hope that cable losses, environmental conditions will clip the extra 9volts or more. Is it a bad gamble?

I have the exact same panels, I'll tell you what voltage I get at peak irradiance.

Hopefully tomorrow.

Chai! Sorry for the loss.
Seems it's the season of lightning in Benin.
It also got to an inverter at a friend's house.
I had asked if he's earthed the new building and he said he paid the electrician handling the project to do it.
I got a call that the system was showing error code which translates to a short circuit problem.
Had someone go check out the earthing of the house only to find just a naked thunder arrestor chilling on the rooftop without any form of wire connection attached to it.
I wonder why some people are just somehow. He paid huge amount for the earthing to be done and yet nothing was done.

osayuwamwen:
Lighting killed my inverter and Felicity controller last night, am so pained

Hybrid600:

Chai! Sorry for the loss.
Seems it's the season of lightning in Benin.
It also got to an inverter at a friend's house.
I had asked if he's earthed the new building and he said he paid the electrician handling the project to do it.
I got a call that the system was showing error code which translates to a short circuit problem.
Had someone go check out the earthing of the house only to find just a naked thunder arrestor chilling on the rooftop without any form of wire connection attached to it.
I wonder why some people are just somehow. He paid huge amount for the earthing to be done and yet nothing was done.

One of our Benin brothers spotted.

The lightning and rain in Benin is something else compared to any part of Nigeria I have seen.

Drgreatone:
I av come again gurus, I have a 12v 1kva hybrid afripower inverter(spec is pwm wit max volt,current and panel as 25v,25a and 600w resp) which i mainly use to power lights and TV. Was working towards adding 600w solar panel wit seperate CC just so I can add my freezer to it. Today I decided to just plug the freezer to the inverter today to even see if it would carry it and voila inverter tripped off showing shortcircuit and then later overload. This inverter usually carries it if utility is available but this one it failed wit just the dc, what do I do? Would connecting the panels directly to the inverter help instead of using CC or do i av to get a bigger inverter? Freezer is haier thermocool 200l wit input current at 180watts

Update: So ended up getting a 2kva hybrid inverter early this year cos i needed my freezer powered which those ffl my story wud know. Still kept this inverter as back up and yesterday mistakenly put on the freezer on it and it powered it after a single beep. Turns out it was the fmr battery that cudnt carry my freezer. Now I av 2 inverters capable of carrying my freezer. Tempted to sell it but wit the way price of things are, its a good back up for my system.

icjunior:



Mhmmm...I would suggest you use the gen mode and see the power consumption,now LG saying "gen mode" is another way of saying if you have limited supply of light which solar is.... depending on your set-up 😁.

I had an issue where my 2.5kva inverter couldn't properly start my 1hp dual inverter AC...the only option I'm thinking of now is using the gen mode on the AC till I upgrade my solar setup. Would have tested this gen mode but I'm yet to replace my spoilt remote.

Update me since you have your remote 😁

So I tried the Gen mode on the remote. Result is disappointing. Apparently the Gen mode button isn't supposed to work on this model. It appears this remote is universal for some models of LG ACs, so it's not every button on it thar works. I simply pressed the button and watched out for any changes in the power consumption, but nothing worthy of note happened.

I checked the manual and it seems everything that has to do with "energy saving" is optional for this unit that I got, except maybe the fact that the "inverter" model it is makes it to ramp up slowly.

So the jet mode ramps up to 1010w, cools the room from 31 degrees to 28 degrees in about 30 minutes and the the jet mode deactivates. By then, the consumption had dropped to 957 watts.

It's s currently down to 944w as I'm typing.

This has got to be my saddest gadget purchase in a very long time. The only thought filling my head right now is how many premium solar panels I could have secured with the almost 500k price tag on this useless AC purchase, and my spirit will be happy with me that my power generation increase is guaranteed for another 10 years.

Really mad at myself.

At 5:28pm, consumption now down to 847 watts

PotatoSalad:



I have 3 hisense and 1 LG inverter ACs in the house.
My technician came for maintenance in February and said oga your ACs are still good as new. Maintain them well and nothing will happen to them. Hisense Inverter ACs are called mortuary standard for a reason. Used thermocool before. Low power consumption, yes but they don't chill that well.

Thanks a lot, this exactly what I'd love to see; real life based experienced backed assertions. So thermocool while giving you that energy efficiency may just not cool as well as Hisense.

Is it because of this lower cooling capacity of the thermocool AC that made you replace it with Hisense? Secondly, between the Hisense and LG which of these two is more power efficient in your experience?

kristien4:
Greetings to the house. Can i connect 9pieces of jinko 580w panel [ 51v VOc @STC] total 459v to a growatt spf 5000es[max voc 450v] and just hope that cable losses, environmental conditions will clip the extra 9volts or more. Is it a bad gamble?

I am about to do this, please tag me when you get answers or decide to help us see how it panned out when you decide to do it.

Worst case scenario it'll enter error mode when voltage overshoots 450v.

You can only find out by a trial

My seniors I need your help

I did this setup last week, now we are about to add the second battery to it both Bluecarbon 15kw….


Please how do I parallel both? So I will get a single source out of them ?


Thanks a lot…

Pls those that are using sms charge controller, it's showing amps coming to the battery but it's not showing the panel voltage,is it how it works

UPDATE: you have to press the left button for some seconds before it will display the p.v voltage

Xanderone:


So I tried the Gen mode on the remote. Result is disappointing. Apparently the Gen mode button isn't supposed to work on this model. It appears this remote is universal for some models of LG ACs, so it's not every button on it thar works. I simply pressed the button and watched out for any changes in the power consumption, but nothing worthy of note happened.

I checked the manual and it seems everything that has to do with "energy saving" is optional for this unit that I got, except maybe the fact that the "inverter" model it is makes it to ramp up slowly.

So the jet mode ramps up to 1010w, cools the room from 31 degrees to 28 degrees in about 30 minutes and the the jet mode deactivates. By then, the consumption had dropped to 957 watts.

It's s currently down to 944w as I'm typing.

This has got to be my saddest gadget purchase in a very long time. The only thought filling my head right now is how many premium solar panels I could have secured with the almost 500k price tag on this useless AC purchase, and my spirit will be happy with me that my power generation increase is guaranteed for another 10 years.

Really mad at myself.

Sorry about this experience. But I thought I have seen someone say their LG inverter AC power consumption can drop below 700w. As Gen Mode button is not working on this model, which model does it work for? Any possibility of return as what you got is not what you want? Once again sorry about this experience.