Our brief for this project was clear: Give me enough power to run my house and outbuildings on the farm and I don't want to think about what I am using or not using too much. Make it work and make it work well. OK,...
We were called in to provide solar panels and install the solution for our client in Bergvliet. Our client was interested in thin film panels specifically. The panels are performing well and we will have the opportunity to compare them with poly crystalline panels soon...
This sytem runs a 5kW Microcare inverter, 100A Microcare MPPT controller and 21.6kWh of flooded lead acid batteries. The system was planned to offset approximately 25kWh of Eskom electricity per day. We are currently not harvesting all the electricity efficiently as the swimming pool pump...
Big and small we do them all. This is a tiny but state of the art little system that is designed to just run a small fridge and some lights in a weekend cottage in the mountain. This is the second we have done in...
This was a fantastic project to be involved in. A year before this site we did the game lodge on the same farm and based on the success that was the client asked us to get him totally off the grid. We settled on a...
Another happy client with his off grid house in Hermanus. This house is only occupied for short periods at a time as a holiday home but with 9kWh of Lithium battery power (the older batteries) and 10kW of inverter peak power, the client is not...
Unfortunately we come across the worst kind of installers. In this case, our client was done it by an installer who supplied cheap sealed lead acid batteries for a daily cycle solar application. The 32 batteries (at a cost of over R90k) were down to...