After installing the inverter onto the wall in a safe place we now discuss the actual wiring, This video should be used in conjunction with the instruction manual and any training manuals
Great explanation, thanks. I'm based in South Africa and looking forward to buying this inverter. My major reason for this specific 5kw hybrid inverter is parity (ability to combine power from grid with power from Panels to power loads), to save on electricity bills. Your explanation on essential and non-essential load separation gives an impression that big items like aircon(say 1000w) and geyser would have to be on non-essential loads which would be powered by the grid only (I could have misunderstood your explanation here). Can the non-essential loads be powered from Solar panels only when there's enough PV generation during the day? So if I have a geyser on non-essential loads, and there's enough wattage from PV during the day, can that PV wattage be used to power the geyser given that the geyser will be on non-essential loads?
@@cornevanrooyen4717 Thanks for the response. I have installed the inverter, and it comes with an option to export to non-essentials side(where the geyser is) and power the geyser from PV only. The only downside has been when we loadshed. Because the geyser is on the non-essentials side, when the grid goes down, I cannot export excess PV to non-essentials side. But most of the time we are not load shedding, so the system works well for me 95% of the time. Looking forward to adding a 2kw geyser to the system on the non-essential side so that I get more benefit from PV and that if theres no grid power for prolonged hours, I can still have hot water on the smaller 2kw extra geyser wired to the essential side of the inverter.
also, there was no need to install anything extra in order to export PV to the non-essential side of the inverter. It can blend battery and PV to export to geyser if there isn't enough PV, or blend grid power with PV to power the geyser. It can also export to geyser at night from batteries alone, although it depletes them much faster given that the installed geyser is 3kw. So this inverter does work really really well. I just wish one could program it to only export to the non-essentials side of the inverter only during the day in order to capitalise on PV during the day only, and power the non-essentials strictly from the grid at night when there is no PV. At the moment it has been a process of manually changing the settings come night time, or manually switch off the geyser from the mains at night.
Thanks for the video.. setting a shutdown on 20% will then save the battery? A deep shutdown or " decharge " will happen on what percentage, and it will also restart automatically when ready?
If I had a cnoice: New Shoto 5.1 KW batteries, which do not seem to communicate with the Inverter, which would then I asume give less than ideal charging, vs 2nd Life Revovs which do communicate with the inverter, at the same price. What would the best choice be?
