Mountain cabin in Romania

3 x Quattro 15KVA
1 x Tauro ECO 50kw (limited to 1:1 ratio)
50KW - Canadian Solar 440W N-type panels
30kw LiFePO4 storage (Pytes V5 heated units, capacity will be doubled soon)
1 x 48v DC Generator for worse-case when really bad weather to power lights

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Very impressive system, such a neat installation, how long did it take to get the system installed? Now the system is up and running are you pleased with the overall performance and is there anything you would have done differently?

Hi Tony.

A little more than a week because we had to build even the little hut and its foundation from scratch.

Not to mention we got snowed it and had to wait for emergency services at the very end. But lool at the bright side. We had full bank of batteries :laughing:

If I would do anything different, hell yeah. On such jobs, like this end of line customer, it is mandatory to fit a smartmeter for a few weeks to measure voltages, consumption and patterns. Here customers electrician claimed grid was ‘sometimes’ and issue. Turned out one phase never goes above 180V, so we ended up hooking a Multiplus as charger only. To charge banks and get out of deadlock of one of the good phases. Leason learned for sure.

To be able to charge with such a poor mains voltage of 180V or even less, take a look at the Eltek FlatPack2 chargers. These have a very wide input voltage range and can be installed in 19’ cabinets … you can regulate the charging voltages with the Smartpack and, and, and …

These Eltek chargers can then also be operated perfectly with a normal AVR generator

https://www.eltek.com/products/flatpack2-483000-he/

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Sounds like you had a bit of an adventure. I’m very impressed with what you have accomplished despite the issues you encountered.

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I just ordered 4 pcs there. If you are right you have a whiskey on me :wink:

Super … on holiday then :slight_smile: :+1:
But you need a Smartpack to get a Modbus/Ethernet connection to make all the settings via the browser. There is also a workaround to integrate without Smartpack but I’m out of that :wink:

Have ordered the whole shabang :slight_smile:

5 x 2KW units and the Module/Controller. Will arrive in two days.

Will post some pictures when in place. If it doesn’t work send me an address for you :joy:

If nothing else … throw the money in the air :moneybag: :moneybag: :moneybag:

The technical possibilities will literally overwhelm you. :open_mouth:

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The unavoidable question: how’s the WiFi in the metal box doing ? :laughing:

:smile::smile: One too many times that happened. 4G this time in a router.