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guess you just came on board, i stated it in my previous posts.
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Can you please share the Thundervolt's data sheet and manufacturer website? Thanks, Boss.

NiyiOmoIyunade:
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Victron 5kw x 3 to make 3 Phase Power + Additional Fronius 6kw in 3 Phase e.t c

What shall one say to these things? You are afterall both master and enthusiast all rolled into one

When are we going to get a review of your new system? (this one don pass upgrade o). It has to be done with full aplomb and fan fare.

And also are you planning to sell off the Axperts and DC generator you already have?

For your diesel gen, I thought you already had a small solar panel connected to top off the starter battery? I see no reason why you do not simply 'strike' the Gen - either leave it idle or just drain fuel out and set it up for long term storage! I do not see how you can have a blackout with all the PV capacity and multiple inverters and multiple redundant battery banks you have built up and it does seem running the Gen occasionally is more trouble for you than it is worth (surely the houseowner would have no objection to prepping the Gen up for long term storage?)

The DC generator will stay - I have converted the GEN to run on LPG using a converter KIT for those days when the tanker operators go on strike

Axperts already spoken for . one will be dashed to the installer whoi is helping me reconfigure panels into higher voltage strings and the other to office engineer who will start his first solar system

I am discarding the lead ACID to more softer duty ( BQ and tooffice engineer)-
Since I will be running whole house ( 15 KW steady state or 30 KW peak) the reasonable lead acid quantity required is 3000 AH ( at C10 for 300 amps . Anytging smaller the battries will die soon.

with Lithium coming down in price the upgrade from existing 10 KWH BYD to additional 20 KWH BYD is cheaper than trying to get even 2000 AH AGM

The victrons allow me to use ESS meanwhile fully maximing my 9.8 KW PV during the day while keeping battries small till the time I can upgrade
Duing night time when the NEPA fails the grid will be replaced by GEN till the loads drop to resonable level.( say 11 PM) then the house runs on battries alone .

I expect may be 1 or 2 hours of GEN in a day if the current stable NEPA continues

Update on the works

I spent last 3 weeks getting the loads in order

1. Added a a new DB to organize loads into critical and non cirtical - The VICTRON allows to drop non critical loads like AC , heating based on Grid condition or battery SOC
Also had to shift loads to match 3 phases equal which were unbalanced after my last 5 years of inverter configurations ( mostly critical on single phase) and non critical wired to seprate DB

2. Fronius is installed and waiting for the solar panel cables to swing into action
3. The gen room was partitioned and cleaned up of all old installation to start fresh - atleast 300 new components arriving from all over the world to make it happen ( right from switchgear to wiring accessories to control cables , inverters etc. )

will take at least 2 weeks to install and commission as I am travelling at the moment and will find time only during weekends

4. The Heaters of the house were replaced with a single new Ariston EVO Plus ECO - This heater will be getting it's feed water from my solar heater ( 120 L) and will heat to required temperature as necessary feeding the whole house making existing 4 heaters redundant

The interesting thing about the heater is it has two elements 1.5 KW and1 KW and switch on as required. Also the onboard computer uses fuzzy logic to decide when to heat water anticipating the needs based on history instead of keeping the water hot all the time.

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pranil:
Update on the works

I spent last 3 weeks getting the loads in order

1. Added a a new DB to organize loads into critical and non cirtical - The VICTRON allows to drop non critical loads like AC , heating based on Grid condition or battery SOC
Also had to shift loads to match 3 phases equal which were unbalanced after my last 5 years of inverter configurations ( mostly critical on single phase) and non critical wired to seprate DB

2. Fronius is installed and waiting for the solar panel cables to swing into action
3. The gen room was partitioned and cleaned up of all old installation to start fresh - atleast 300 new components arriving from all over the world to make it happen ( right from switchgear to wiring accessories to control cables , inverters etc. )

will take at least 2 weeks to install and commission as I am travelling at the moment and will find time only during weekends

4. The Heaters of the house were replaced with a single new Ariston EVO Plus ECO - This heater will be getting it's feed water from my solar heater ( 120 L) and will heat to required temperature as necessary feeding the whole house making existing 4 heaters redundant

The interesting thing about the heater is it has two elements 1.5 KW and1 KW and switch on as required. Also the onboard computer uses fuzzy logic to decide when to heat water anticipating the needs based on history instead of keeping the water hot all the time.

Good stuff ! Always on point .. Keep us posted as usual Sir !

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Images are below, and kindly point out if I’ve done something wrong.

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Ativ:


Can you please share the Thundervolt's data sheet and manufacturer website? Thanks, Boss.

Kindly follow this link, to view the datasheet

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Mrpm:
This thread has been quite inspiring. I’ve been on solar energy in the past 4 weeks until recently when grid was installed. My experience so far has been great. Except I’m having problems installing Venus OS on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

Images are below, and kindly point out if I’ve done something wrong.

You did not say what kind of problems?

Are you running the Venus image or separate packages?

is the multi /bluesolar updated to latest firmware? if not you will need a windows computer to do so

A great resource for raspberry pi troubleshooting is the developer moderated googlegroup of venus

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/victron-dev-venus

Mrpm:
This thread has been quite inspiring. I’ve been on solar energy in the past 4 weeks until recently when grid was installed. My experience so far has been great. Except I’m having problems installing Venus OS on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

Images are below, and kindly point out if I’ve done something wrong.

Don’t think Venus OS works on Pi 3 B+ yet. Read through this post
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/victron-dev-venus/nZuRN96PJHQ/netetOnJCAAJ

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You did not say what kind of problems?

Main Problems: No internet network connection and can not login via a browser. Also, I can not get past the terminal screen with Victron Energy logo.

Are you running the Venus image or separate packages?

I’m running the Venus OS image, and the Multi /Bluesolar was updated to latest firmware. I have both VEConfig and VictronConnect installed on my Microsoft Windows.

A great resource for raspberry pi troubleshooting is the developer moderated googlegroup of venu...

Thanks for the link... However, I’ve previously stumbled on the Google group but haven’t been able to solve my problems.

hancock:


Don’t think Venus OS works on Pi 3 B+ yet. Read through this post
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/victron-dev-venus/nZuRN96PJHQ/netetOnJCAAJ

Thank you

[quote author=Mrpm post=69864940][/quote]

If you see the logo that is the correct screen. The network issues may be due to raspberry Pi b3 +

see another user who was able to solve it by twisting arm and leg
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/victron-dev-venus/nZuRN96PJHQ/zSSpMrPCBAAJ;context-place=topic/victron-dev-venus/YAu2dENQ-wg

To acess venus you have to be another computer and point your browser to the Ip address of the venus. The VRM screen is available on remote PC and not the pi

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/venus-gx:start

see 2.2 onwards

pranil:


If you see the logo that is the correct screen. The network issues may be due to raspberry Pi b3 +

see another user who was able to solve it by twisting arm and leg
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/victron-dev-venus/nZuRN96PJHQ/zSSpMrPCBAAJ;context-place=topic/victron-dev-venus/YAu2dENQ-wg

To acess venus you have to be another computer and point your browser to the Ip address of the venus. The VRM screen is available on remote PC and not the pi

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/venus-gx:start

see 2.2 onwards

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olopan:

please i will lile to get in touch with you ....please give me a link to do that and i sent you a message PM. THANKS

Try what oga pranil posted or wait for a new venus image that supports the Rpi+. The issue is the venus uses an old boot loader which is not compatible with new hardware included in the new Pi particularly network drivers. Pranil linked post gives a work around the problem but might be better to wait. The venus community are very active and a new image should be released very very soon.

I was tempted to use VRM too for remote logging and monitoring what held be back was the proprietariness of the VRM service (not venus) in the end I settled for emonpi with emoncms. That gave me greater control over every aspect of logging and monitoring. You can see my dashboard in my signature.

Please how long can a 200ah battery carry a load of 200watts?

Disco01:
Please how long can a 200ah battery carry a load of 200watts?

Theoretically about 12 hours.. In reality about 10 11 hours. It all depends on the state of battery (is it new or old) and hours rating (20 hours or 10 hours)

On top of what Oga BigRovar has said, may I also add that if you use the battery in this way, discharging it all the way to the end, it will surely die a early death.

A 12v 200Ah battery at the top of it's game has about 2.4kWH of energy stored in it - a 200watts discharge is effectively C12 and you want a C20 discharge rate so as not to stress your average battery - by C20, I mean a discharge rate or load that will need to run for at least 20hours before your battery is fully spent.

So for this scenario, ideally you want to either drop your load to 100w and run this for 12 hours to get your battery to 50% DoD or add one more battery to make 2 units of 12v 200Ah then you can safely run your 200watt load for 12hours and comply with both the max load and depth of discharge rules and thereby secure best service life for your battery bank.

bigrovar:
Theoretically about 12 hours.. In reality about 10 11 hours. It all depends on the state of battery (is it new or old) and hours rating (20 hours or 10 hours)

bigrovar:
Theoretically about 12 hours.. In reality about 10 11 hours. It all depends on the state of battery (is it new or old) and hours rating (20 hours or 10 hours)

What of inverter wattage? Like 1.5kw inverter

Hmmm Disco

Disco01:
Please how long can a 200ah battery carry a load of 200watts?

what voltage 6V 12V 24 or 48 V? 200AH at 12 V is 2400 Watt hours. Usable is half of that which is 1200 watts hours. Divide you 200 into 1200 and you have your answer.