- How to calculate starting current in a motor
- DB just a box?
- DC changeover switch
- Working with Eskom ( nightmare )
- Solar systems and support
- Good news for lithium 7 amp/hr batteries
- Axpert
- Inverter Generators
- [Question] Linking multiple Sub DBs
- Small margins on solar products
- Earth leakage trip on switching over inverter to main supply
- V-O-V Generator - doing my head in!
- Linking batteries of different amp/hr ratings
- What makes a good lithium battery
- Bathroom extraction fan.
- Certificate of compliance requirements for tenants renting properties
- Where are the young tradesmen?
- Restoration of power during load shedding
- adding battery bank to existing battery bank to increase battery hours
- My Friday brainfreeze
- Installations only
- Electricity meter trips when i switch off load
- Lets do it right and register our solar installtion.
- A little free advice
- Single Phase Electrician
- Energy crisis or supply and demand crisis
- SANS 10142-1 - Notices and labeling
- Socket in bathroom
- outbuilding kiosk query for coc
- Council Oostersee box and SANS 10142(Compliance)
- [Question] Inverter fault levels
- Jump in or be patient and wait for the solar industry to settle
- Lithium battery test with a 6.4 amp power supply
- Solar PV training (green card)
- Stoves..
- Arrogant customers
- Data logging
- Isolation procedure for solar/inverter/batteries
- Application for connection of embedded generation
- How long before this is extended to the electrical industry? What is next, vehicle roadworthies?
- Socket safety
- The sad state of the electrical industry in SA
- Installing a Sunsynk inverter
- Portable Inverters used as permanant supply ??
- Another firm in the UK fined
- Inverter feed
- [Question] DB Box
- Wireless gate intercom
- Online service sheets
- Registered contractors and the green card
- [Question] Switch directly eskom vis DB
- [Question] Power relay used as changeover for invertor supply to db
- An association/platform/group for the little guys
- defy 424 Stove
- Slow payers and small business
- [Question] Garden ground lights tripping earth leakage
- 6 Amp socket outlet and plugtop.
- [Question] Do I have to issue a COC if I install 1 socket outlet
- Thinking a bit...
- Pump for a small irrigation system with speed control
- Prepaid meters for tenants
- Oven
- Help with new business opportunity
- AC protection box
- 4 pole Main Switch or even isolator
- Where does the responsibility end
- DOL Registration and Renewals
- Education needed.
- Intercom system
- Dahua support
- CoC for DC (PV) Installation
- Socket outlet on cabtyre flex.
- Double insulated wire
- Issuing a COC for a property with solar and an invalid COC
- Section 3 of the test report
- Lightning 6.7.7 and surge protection 6.7.6
- Why this forum is a step in the right direction for the electrical industry.
- Victron
- Installing solar on my property, what I would expect
- Surge protection
- Separating the DC in a solar system.
- Open wiring or exposed connections ?
- Stumble block and fixtures
- Essential and non essential separation in the DB
- The cable between a machine and the wall mounted isolator
- Solar installation designs
- Build it generator
- 6.16.7.3
- DB Monitoring, Mains sensing
- Trunking, Network and power cables?
- Thinking in traffic
- Loose terminal blocks inside Samite DB?
- DB Surge protector installation SASP-15KA
- Original and supplementary COC
- Buying solar products without technical support.
- Earthing of DC supplied LED aluminium profile
- Metal conduit requirement for DC PV Wires
- Convert domestic 3 Phase to single phase
- Quick question
- 2 separate UPS cables in 1 wireway?
- Good source for sprag / Sprague in Cape Town besides builders?
- Schuko
- Lithium batteries in residential properties
- mA clamp meter
- My take on solar course
- [Article] neutral loop test
- Property electrical safety
- Quick battery question
- A compliment from my mentor
- Alarms, gates and garage door remotes
- "Old" Samite mount options?
- 3 kva inverters and batteries
- Electrical CoC
- Steam punk style/ industrial.
- Garden lights
- Where can I install batteries on a property
- Geyser element blowing.
- Old Orange 4pin welding plug illegal or not
- Coc for 12v down lights
- Loadshedding question.
- Radiant lighting
- Fixed industrial equipment and RCD
- Lightening CoC?
- Deye 5K Inverter error
- [Question] Replacing old wiring
- Meter restarting ?
- Neutral earth bonding on backup systems.
- [Question] Pre paid CIU-PH04 PLC codes.
- An earth spike and standby systems
- [Question] Flexible PVC VS conduit new trend
- Meter
- Coc question
- Tankless/ instant water heater
- Finally, solar panels
- [Question] Leakage on earth wire
- Cable
- WENDY HOUSE WIRING
- Lugs specific to a type of cable
- IP Rated necessary?
- 32V AC N - E. Any suggestions?
- CB for indicator light
- [Question] Overheating Wire from City Meter back to Eskom power supply
- Solar/inverter/batteries installation challenges
- Floating neutral
- New CBI meter
- Junction box
- The AC board
- Cable, wire separation
- Electrical Installation Regulations
- Growatt Inverter Repairs
- GoSolr
- Inverter Installation
- V0V Generator
- DC gate motor, elec fence and garage door solution?
- Earthing and swa cable
- Installing solar panels
- Inverter trips when power fails
- Year end
- [Question] Lithium batteries, how safe are they?
- Another dodgy COC
- silicon sealer reacts with copper
- Competent Person
- SCRAP YARDS NOT ALLOWED TO BUY COPPER WIRE
- Inverter battery installations
- Earth leakage trips
- Grounded PV systems
- Expecting a few changes
- Electrical pricing for doing a cable joint
- [Article] Golf cart charging
- battery cable selection
- [Question] MR Mnisi
- Sunsynk for dummies
- Safe zone for a fish pond
- Clarity on who is responsible to testing of earth leakage unit
- [Question] Sales or support
- Seeking advice on the use of contactors as transfer/ change over switch
- Question. Sub station switches.
- Question about unit standards
- Selecting a generator
- A few COC notes
- Question on solar system
- [Question] MIE required to sign off battery bank?
- Ceiling fans, isolators and earth leakage units
- Using a changeover switch as an isolator
- Safety gear and working in extreme heat
- Small business and admin
- Split conduit for the solar wires
- SSEG registration with the council
- Stove Circuit / Circuits on new build ( Question )
- Sizing a backup system
- Solar panel safety rating
- Grounding, earthing and lightning protection for solar panels
- Essential and non essential circuits for backup systems.
- Defy Hybrid fridge and freezer
- Electrical Fridges and freezers
- Why a valid initial COC is so important
- [Question] Skyking Inverter setup
- Installing an earth spike with a TN-S earth system
- Oven and lights not on earth leakage
- Check my maths please?
- What do you call this mc4
- [Question] Electrical COC
- Registering your SSEG with the municipality
- Sunsynk no earth, no dedicated neutral bar
- IE position R18-20 k
- Electrical contractor
- DOL registered person woes
- Polarity change with inverter
- DOL school audits
- Selecting panels best suited for your MPPT
- Do monkeys damage solar panels
- Lithium battery quality
- Go big or go home
- Math help please
- Non Registered solar installer, provides legit COC
- Just when you thought it couldnt get any worse
- [Question] COC requirement for a complete electrical installation including solar
- Splitting the domestic DB
- DB full
- Useful information
- Backup/solar challenges
- Insurance cover
- wireless smart kwh meter
- Customers buys the equipment
- Signing off solar installations.
- Inverter
- Adblocker
- Relays and LED lights
- Neutral Earth - more info
- Stock shortages
- Sunsynk system mode
- ECB va ECSA
- [Question] Compliance to Bathroom Zones
- Help! 11 Pin contoler wiring
- [Question] Where to from here
- Solar installation requirements - simplified
- Solar system sizing and calculator
- How do you size a solar system with the electricity account
- New PV installation questions
- Earth/neutral bond relay size
- Sunsynk VS Hubble batteries
- [Question] Safe installation location
- Battery disconnector
- Micro inverters.
- [Question] Taps in shower shock
- Sunsynk warranty claims
- Firmware upgrades for Sunsynk products
- Inverters, open and exposed wiring in roof
- Lithium batteries and the SOC
- Growing your small electrical business