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Also if the install was done right I believe there should be breakers to catch this as well. I know my 5Kw system has two 40A breaker (AC In and AC Out) and if I understand the placement of it this should catch anything that the inverter might miss to safeguard it as well. Can correct me if I'm wrong but that is how it looks to me.

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Yes a 8kW would have been nice and give some margin to play with but if you know the limitations of the 5.5kW and work just a little bit smart it can do the job. One thing I just did is I just dropped the element in my geyser down to 2000w (was 3000w) runs just a little longer but it is now within the spec of my current 2.7kw panels setup. So unless it is cloudy outside I use no battery or grid for it anymore and it gives me an additional 1kW to play with once my extra panels will get added so then I can actually have the geyser on with something else as well.

There is a 4 way crossing on that back road (about 15km from Vredenburg) the one splits to a farm the other side splits of to Paternoster and then joins the main road to Paternoster just before you enter the town.

https://www.strava.com/athletes/19856195/posts/23202475 Saldanha airfield (looks like it was around 05:30) from the feedback in the comments.

Just saw a post on my strava feed about a bikejacking that took place this morning close to the airfield. From what I can gather bakkie pushed rider off the road then grabbed the bike and sped off. 🤬

Also they are tarring the back road between Vredenburg and St Helenabay and I believe St Helenabay and Paternoster. It is taking away some MTB route options but opening it to road bikes on the flip side.

Hence why I do not frequent that road, the other no shoulder road is the old link road between the Langebaanweg and the Engin 1 stop on the West Coast road, there is at least now that new link to the flyover that gives you and alternative route and a couple more km to do depending on your route layout

Only do the into oncoming traffic on the double lane road between Vredenburg & Saldanha and only on the one side (the shoulder of the lanes from Saldanha to Vredenburg is just none existing while on the Vredenburg to Saldanha side you have like half a lane width 🤷‍♂️)

Or an ostrich looking to sprint race you 😁

It's pretty safe but we have had our share of attempts over the past couple of years but can count them on my fingers more or less. Road rides for the most part if your route is so to avoid close proximity to the informal sectors should be smooth sailing. We have a couple of roads linking the towns that should make for good route options you can mix and match to keep the routes fun and different.

Well if it is the same fibre provider and they are online while you are down then it is most likely your ISP that is going down due to lack of backup power or some other technical issue. If so going to a different ISP might solve the problem but I'd first confirm that by checking line status on the router during a loadshedding period.

Is the friends down the road on the same fibre provider as you? My ONT box has a LOS indicator to show if the fibre line is down or not making it easier to pin point problem otherwise can't you log into the router and check status of line. There is usually and status indicator to show is the line is down or whether the ISP is down.

I think the ups he is referring to is an ultralan micro UPS and those don't have a 240 out just in and then DC outs. Unless the monitor support operating in that lower spec voltage I can't see it working without tinkering a bit to make up some sort of voltage converter but by that calculation the monitor will use about 21w and the ups is a 65w unit so add in the router you are already at about 50% capacity on that UPS so 2 hours runtime or less by my rough calculations. Also the POE is for power over Ethernet not sure what the amps is on that port might be the easiest way if you could wire up a rj45 to a dc barrel then the source would be 15v xAmps but that might blow up the screen because of over volting. One would also need to figure out what wire is what that is coming out the RJ45 first. Bottom line once going over the volt spec I would be hesitant to experiment.

and isn't there a pump involved that needs to run for it to work so it needs to be on a backup power solution for in case of loadshedding. 🤷‍♂️ "Evacuated Tube Collectors are a very efficient way of heating much of your hot water use just using the power of the sun. They can achieve high very temperatures but are more fragile than other types of solar collectors and are much more expensive to install. They can be used in either an active open-loop (without heat exchanger) or an active closed-loop (with heat exchanger) solar hot water system but a pump is required to circulate the heat transfer fluid from collector to storage in order to stop it from overheating."

Yea saw that can't wait to get my upgrade now to try and lower that last bit of Eskom dependency, also gonna swap out my geyser element from 3kW to 2kW this weekend. Considering my setup capacity and bad weather scenarios I would rather have the geyser run longer but just off PV and never have to use grid then have hot water a little bit faster but have to use Eskom power for an hour or more to achieve that.

Just a quick note to add after a quick read from the home assistant link. It looks like you need to replace the wifi chip if you want an open API to use home assistant with it otherwise if you are happy to go via the cloud platform of Tuya it won't be needed. Obliviously this applies to the compatible head units.

Have a look here, just skimped through it but kinda confirms my suspicion they are now using Tuya and what is needed to integrate it into Home-Assistant it seems. Will have a proper look at it when at home https://community.home-assistant.io/t/geyserwise-wifi-module-integration-request/305103/29

https://www.geyserwiseonline.com/RemoteManager/Login.aspx Frosty is this what you found and referring to because the one I found a while back was was an actual demo of the online interface. Can't seem to find that anymore Edit: Found the demo login details here for above site and some discussion about that and Home Assistant integration. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/geyserwise-wifi-module-integration-request/305103

Product no longer listed on that link I had and found this just now. https://www.livestainable.co.za/product/geyserwise-tuya-module-max-solar-geyser-controller-complete-kit/ (Just for reference I do not know the legitimacy of this site as an online shop by any means) Think they might have just opted to integrate there product with Tuya instead of doing their own app and support of it.🤷‍♂️ Making some assumption right now because the app linked is Tuya Smart not that demo one I think you referring to Frosty.

That is the WiFi controllable unit I believe you are referring to that can use that app of them. Could also not find much info on it for availability in SA think I found a link to it once will go look for it.

More research for me to do then 😅.

Haven't come across that one yet in my research, am leaning more towards the Tuya based stuff. Will need to go look it up but if you want temps it will in all likelihood mean fiddling with the geyser itself. I'm less interested in the temps and more just the ability to override the on/off time remotely to override the timer if Eskom decides to change stages and schedules on nr 99 while at work that messes with my time slots.

If it is just a matter of it sitting on the whole day maybe look into a simple time you can add on the DB to set it for fixed times to go on and off or if you want a smart timer you can then remotely operate as well and monitor usage etc. Those might be a bit cheaper if it fits your needs. Currently going down the rabbit whole of smart switches etc to replace my broken timer on the geyser.

Yes but the setup the people usually do and some are referring to here is a geyserwise with an control unit to link 2 or 3 solar panel to the geyser which runs you about 18-20k for a solar geyser setup (was one of the options I discussed with the solar guys here) vs just the geyserwise unit, was quoted about R 2500 for that a while back for the temp and timer options only etc.