Best Invertor and Panels

Also wouldn't go near Huawei for the above reason but after having solis hybrid also wouldn't go that route due to the throttling of charging power after 15 mins.

Would recommend either the sofar hyd-EP models or sunsynk/deye. All of which have good ownership here and with positive feedback. Have the sofar hyd-ep 6kw myself and couldn't recommend it enough

It drops from 100 amps charging batteries after about 15 minutes but has been shown by a boardsie who ran tests on it that it can do around a stable 85ish amps after that.

Edit.

Search here is useless but eventually came across the post! It's Post #360 here https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058211660/solis-inverter-settings/p12

Doing well then even if only 85 amps as mine would throttle to 68 amps straight after 15 minutes before I sold it

You cannot rate any inverter by the number of units sold. Units sold doesn't make them good.

They are likely the most popular with installers because of their profit margins..

A good inverter should potentially have flexibility of setups, and be quick to react to changes in load demand.

A good inverter should be able to track a zero watts import / export. A better inverter will allow you to offset the CT clamp reading to ensure you constantly import or export a specific amount.

A good inverter should supply data at 1 sec internals (or whatever) over a local RS485 connection and publicly publish the spec of that data stream format.

@HotSwap if around can fill you in on the Huawei inverters and as far as panels go there's not a lot between them apart from price so get the best price you can AFAIK.

Sorry for slow reply. Been busy. Did you have any specific questions about huawei?

I have one, got it installed in November with 8.4Kw's of panels. In the early days before I started charging my battery overnight, it was charging the battery rapidly, sometimes managing over 7Kw's of power from the panels on the sunny days of mid November. Its rated to handle up to 12kw's of DC but I've just 20 panels on it at the moment as I'm waiting on Sungrows Smart Optimisers which are coming within the next few months. they're needed to control the voltage if your wanting to go large with the array. When DC coupled EV chargers come on stream I'll be adding 8 more panels and adding the Optimisers.

Everything is controlled through a desktop interface or App, with the display on the inverter only displaying production information. I always use the desktop interface for changing settings as I prefer working with a large screen. The interface is very easy to navigate, and changing settings is very simple as you can look at the settings and intuitively know what to do without having to revert to the manual.

All kit is IP65 rated. But just ensure the location is shaded. You don't want the sun shining down on it

No. I have one and no better or different. You're locked into very expensive Huawei batteries of you get one. Major downside.

Nah, my inverter is outside and it's fine. They have an outdoor rating of IP65.

They are not more expensive.

if you can afford to do all three aspects then do it, if not then maximise south facing and then pick either east or west or just south if funds don't stretch. having the three aspects covered will ensure an increased level of production throughout the day with east producing power from early morning to noon-ish, south panels producing power from morning to evening and west facing panels from noon-ish to the late evening.

as noted by champ solar has nothing to do with heat, its all about light. at 25 degrees celsius and above panels start to lose efficiency which makes ireland actually quite a good place for pv.

To be honest, if you want a system which will set there and do what it says on the tin, then take your pick.

Many of us here have got sucked into this addictive hobby, producing our own monitoring dashboard, getting live data into home-made data manipulators, adding extra sensors, obsessed with using zero daytime units, and constantly looking at the next upgrade.

Well that's me anyway 😎

There will always be sweet spots with voltage for the efficiency of inverters. In my very first setup, my panels were in 3s3p and coupled with the charge controller I used at that time, I feel that the output was better than my current 9s configuration.

Any opinion on the following advice I received please?

There is absolutely no comparison between Sofar equipment and Sygenergy. They are streets apart in terms of reliability, functionality and capability. As a strong piece of advice, whomever you go with, I would steer well clear of Sofar technology.  This is widely regarded in the industry as " cheap as chips" and for good reason. The hierarchy of equipment would generally be 1. Sigenergy 2. Huawei 3. Solis, and after these there is a huge difference in quality.

The only reason everyone is installing sigenergy is that they are a piece of piss to install.

And there is loads of stock in Ireland/Uk.

Get in get out as fast as possible.