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**********, avoid at all costs My solar installation was incorrectly installed These were the issues uncovered by a outside expert: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. There is no isolator in the DB board to the AC combiner box in the garage. o The feed to the AC combiner box is taken directly from the main Earth Leakage. o It is not safe to work on the AC combiner without this isolator. The DC PV cable and AC cable are together in the same trunking. o It is a legal requirement for AC and DC to be split into separate trunking. The positive and negative PV cabling is together in the same trunking. o It is a legal requirement for positive and negative to be split into separate trunking from the solar modules on the roof to the PV combiner box. There is a single isolator that feeds Eskom to both the Inverter supply and the changeover switch. o Both the inverter supply and changeover should be supp**** with independent isolators in order to work on the respective area of the system. o A bigger combiner box is required to facilitate this change. The isolator in the PV combiner box is wrong, it is 63amp and should be 32amp. The Fuse holder in the PV combiner box is rated at 30amp but fuses within the holder are 32amp. o It is a fire risk should the amperage be between 30amp and 32amp as the holders could melt. There is no earth spike from the PV panels to ground. The PV panels are only earthed to the AC combiner box and the inverter.
As a result of the above, my inverter incurred a power surge and stopped working
At first easy power showed no interest at even conducting a site visit
Only after legal threats from myself did they eventually send a team out
Initially they wanted to charge me for the repairs!!
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