Going from the odd small inverter installations with lead acid batteries here and there ... to full blown solar and everthying from 1 KVA - 3 x 5 kva connected in parallel and AGM and lithium.
Time to put on the big boy pants ... reading glasses ... dust off the metrel PQA ... make an enclosure for the meter with 2 clips to hang on the wall ... and get familiar with how all this stuff works ... Literally every site I work on now has either inverters and batteries as a backup ... some installed by me ... and some now also have solar panels and the works ... installed by others.
The first and most important thing I noticed ... the customers lack of understanding of how the system and apps work ... its called a "bad customer experience" ... its the same with alarms and CCTV ... customer are not DIY enthusiasts ... they have no interest in all the numbers and pretty screens with graphs and shyte ... they want to know the simple stuff ... when the power goes off will my TV still work ... yes or no ... I spent until 8.45 pm last night trying to figue out what works on the customers inverter ... no lableing on the outlets ... no indicator light to show power was on/off ... no sketch next to the inverter indicating circuits etc ... sub DB's mounted next to exisitng DB's wiringing chopped into the wall ... bundles of skewits connections ... that you cant close the panel without using the screws to secure it ... what a mess... but it look pretty from the outside.
As an electricain I was confused ... imagine what it must be like as a customer with no electrical experience ... by the way the installer came highly recommended ... from the outside it looks pretty and there is lots of electrical tape wrapped around the skrewits
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