Sounds almost too good to be true… Whats the catch? 
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Cancellation fee is pretty steep… it’s month-to-month but you don’t really want to cancel and have to pay all that money. It makes sense though since they can’t just go and put a used system on someone else’s house then.
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Which system did you go for? The medium?
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Yes I’m taking the medium installation as well. For now it should be good, but would be interested in upgrading to the large package some time next year.
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That is the nice thing, you can easily upgrade the system.
Do you know how much power you use a day on average?
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Like you very close to about 20kWh, with most days averaging slightly higher. Which according to the guy at Gosolr is on the gap between the large and the medium. But hopefully will see some savings in not having to buy so many units from Eskom a month, plus keeping the lights on during load shedding.
Do your PC stay on during load shedding on the solar?
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Here’s our usage over the last 2 months. Blue is generation from the panels, red is total consumption and orange is power purchased from the grid
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I can happily game during load shedding. With the PC running full tilt, a few lights, a TV, routers, fridge all on we’ll use up about 12-13% of the battery per hour. Less demanding games, or if I’ve capped the FPS, like in ACC, it’ll use up less.
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My installation has finally begun for the new house. The panels have been up for a while now (but not connected) and the solar geyser has been providing hot water since last week, even though there is no electricity yet (which feels weird).
Tomorrow we’re moving the batteries from the old house to the new house so then we should at least have solar power there (no idea when municipality will eventually connect power). I’m just curious to see how well (or poorly) the system performs while it is raining because that will provide the biggest indication of how feasible it is to actually go off-grid.
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Don’t you just need more battery storage, for low light and night time? 
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With the heavy clouds and rain over the last two days our panels generated at most a third of their sunny weather capacity.
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I have 5 at the old house which we’ll be moving over today. They’ll come underneath the inverters.
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We have also added solar to our house - during the rainiest week this year! I haven’t monitored how well it works yet.
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So my solar installation is scheduled. Only going to happen in 5 December which sucks that its so far out, but at least its scheduled. And now we wait!
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Preliminary congratulations, I’m sure it will be life changing
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Tell them to handle their shizness and come to Witbank, already.
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I just wanna know who will pay for ours? We have City of Cpt approval just cannot afford it anymore.
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And finally done… now to just move in to take advantage of it. Found a small issue with the configuration and the non-essential loads that the installer must just come fix, but other than that, seems to be running well.
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Man that’s a drool worthy setup. Very nice
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Today is installation day! The team has been trying their best to install in between the rain here in Centurion. At least the panels are on the roof and the battery and inverter are on the wall. Now to do all the cabling and hook everything up. I am not expecting to have enough battery power for our load-shedding schedule tonight, and hopefully, there is some sunshine tomorrow to charge the system. Would love to test it all and get going.
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