We have been very happy with it and are more than pleased to give Leon, of Energy Efficient Options, in Cape Town a free plug.
www.energyoptions.co.za
Leon took all of our specs, came up with a suggested system, and made everything reasonably easy to install without any special electrical or solar knowledge.
We have three 80 watt panels, three 12 volt 100 amp hour batteries, an inverter and a digital charge regulator. (The digital regulator has been very helpful as it gives you quite a bit of information about the system)
The system has been working really well and is quite adequate for all of our needs.
We comfortably run both our laptops off of it,
as well as charging phones and torch batteries.Dave came up to help me set the system up, which was a great help. Here we
are connecting each of the panels.Once they were connected we assembled the frame and bolted all three panels into their frame.
We haven't mounted this on the roof yet, as it will move to whatever the site of my new office will be. It is simply on the ground facing North, with about a dozem concrete building blocks holding it down against the wind.
It was a simple job to then connect the battery bank, charge regulator, and inverter.
Not the sexiest looking finish, but a couple of grey building blocks and a nicked shelf and the inside part of the unit is complete. We have a piece of shutterply on top of the battery connections to ensure that there is no accidental shorting (conductive objects that get placed there) accross the points.
On a sunny day we will get about 1200 Watts from the system. A really cloudy day like today only gave us around 360 watts
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