Solar Panel, Power & Battery Discussion

[exceladdict]

You can get a reasonable estimate of how much power the AV is using by monitoring your usage before and after turning it on/off ( leaving everything else the same).

We have 2 AC units in the main part of our house; one for the kitchen and a larger unit that does the rest. We discovered that the smaller unit is quite economical to run while the larger one chews as much as 6kW.

Same, indeed we assume the majority of unattributed usage is either kitchen or a/c. It's easy to identify the spike when the coffee machine goes on in the morning

We did seperate split systems for one floor, with a central unit for the other and our experience is the same. ~200-300w draw each from the small units on eco mode, many kws from the central unit. Both of course vary as the compressor engages and disengages.

 

[Brissy1]

Replaced my panels in Brisbane last year, and now looks like my inverter (SMA 2500) has carked it. I'm on the grandfathered 44c fit (until 1/7/28) which is very worthwhile keeping (so can't upsize) as I'm not home there much.

 

[DC3]

I saw them at Aldi this morning, can’t remember price @Denali

Will you be going back to check the price?

 

[Quickstatus]

Replaced my panels in Brisbane last year, and now looks like my inverter (SMA 2500) has carked it.

Usually when people have a busted inverter, the best thing to do would be to replace it with an inverter-battery combo.

But in your case due to the FiT sending excess solar to battery does not make sense

But if you have to get an inverter might as well get one that also operates a battery - a so called hybrid inverter but without the battery, in case the FiT ever gets taken away

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