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Usage Tips
Utilise the mid-day production in order to maximize your system usage. You could charge your batteries with the sun’s energy but what happens if your batteries are full? Thankfully, there are many ways that you could utilise this energy other than charging your batteries.
Solar panel output - Time of Day
Maximising system production
Running high consumption devices during the day
- Switch on pool pumps between 10am and 3pm
- Geyser controllers can switch on/off or a specific amount of time and keep them at a specified temperature. You can program the geyser switch on between 10am and 3pm, set your desired temperature so that when you are back home in the evening you have hot water ready. Great examples of this product would be “ASTUTE smart controller”.
- Smart Wi-Fi switches can be installed so that you can remotely control appliances to switch during the day. There are many products on the market, however due to our vast experience with these products we would recommend the b”CBI Wi-Fi Timers” switches as they are high quality and great value for money.
- Communicate with the person at home to switch on your high demand appliances between 10am and 3pm