All this talk about C ratings and warranty claims etc, what about charging the batteries.

Suddenly an interesting question popped up while chatting to someone yesterday, what if I have 6 x 5 kwh batteries in parallel, a 5 kva inverter and 16 panels on the roof.

That means you have 600 amp/hr of battery power, how are you going to charge it after day 3 of stage 6 load shedding?

You down to 20% DOD, you have 6 x 1C batteries, 11amps per mppt (22 amps) and 125 amps max charging capacity on the inverter.

8 hours per day the power is off, leaving you with 8 hours to fully charge the batteries.

Imagine if you are off grid and dont have a generator and you load shedding between 10 and 2 pm.

Even worse you have lead/gel or AGM batteries, you down to 50%, were does that leave you.

Do you think this Eskom power problem is all part of a bigger scheme to bring this country to its knees. I am not into conspiracy theories and stuff I dont have the expertise in that field nor understand the politics of it. But you have to ask yourself, what happened to all the manufacturing in SA and why is all the land being taken up by massive storage facilities to a point that they are now spreading like a wild fire over the empty land and the sound of the trucks running 24/7 is getting so loud and roads are impossible to travel on due to trucks jams waiting to load/unload.

We all going to say we didn't see that coming, as it unfolds right in front of us.

I saw this same thing happen when load shedding started back in 2008, suddenly everyone went into panic mode and rushed out and purchased large generators, we climbed on the band wagon and just installed generators for months. Then suddenly the panic stopped and investors who got conned and invested, lost millions. Lots of the generators eventually got sold as the load shedding stopped and started.