Done!
They arrived about 10am, and just left now about 6pm. Four guys doing the install. We have 10 panels, five on the front and five on the back of the roof so should get good coverage, and a 5.5kW lithium battery. Alas they finished as the sun was going down so there was barely time for it to charge, but the battery did charge to 20% while they were hooking things up to it. We also have an app to check everything.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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The battery charges with a trickle from the grid when there's nothing coming from the panels, if the battery isn't full -
WelshPixie, Cont Sgrechian
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The app isn't quite real time but refreshes every 10 minutes or so, which is near enough real time for us to get good metrics of use from it :) (Or we can just look directly at the screen on the inverter, which is real time.)
The battery is set to never go lower than 20%. It's currently 25% and we have loadshedding at 8pm so we'll see how it does with the lights :)
WelshPixie, Cont Sgrechian
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I'm excited!
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It started at 7:40am when it was barely light out, making 11 little watts, now it's picking up :D
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(sorry, not sorry)