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Peter S
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2 reviews14 months ago
Incredible Expensive / Improper Installation
I used Macro Clear (Jacques Walters) for my installation and paid the ridiculous amount of R148 000 for 6 panels; 5.5KW Inverter; 2 Batteries in 2022. This was a bundled price - no individual item prices at all. Last price from him was R7 800 per panel installed back in 2023 because the job was obviously too small for him. I also have screenshots of a R4000 price difference for a battery that he charged (installed on the same day). Recently I got an electrician to evaluate and correct my installation. Macro Clear (together with his so called engineer Marius) DID NOT install the following: a Surge protector on my DB Board. a Surge protector between my Inverter and panels. No disconnects in front of the string panels. No battery disconnects installed, so no way at all to switch off the batteries. The cables from the panels to the inverter was just laying loose in my roof without any protection. The only cover over the cables was (to BS me) about 30cm worth of trunking in my garage where the cables can be seen. I had to spent an additional couple of thousand rand to let to had this all corrected for my own safety. Jacques is now involved in some SA EV Charge . . . this is also the email address if you put it together. Snake oils salesman, some people will call them
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19 months ago
Stay away - extremely expensive
a Month after my system was installed by Macro Clear, I asked Jacques Walters for a quote on extra panels. He rep**** I do not need more panels, although I have a small system. Eventually he said R3 800 per panel installed but that he is going on holiday soon and I must wait for a month. So after his holiday I asked again and all of a sudden it was now R4 800 per panel installed. I told him he is ripping me off and after a month decided I might as well just go for it. I asked again and again it went up another R1 000 per panel, and I clicked and tested him and within one year of asking him a couple of times, the panels jumped to R8 000 per panel installed. This guy is enormously expensive and only wants to do big jobs, one of my friends paid almost half the price Jacques quoted and got double the system. He also does not supply a detailed quote, so you have no idea what the inverter, battery or panels cost for you initial installation. I recommended him to about 15 friends and colleagues, which all told me this guy is on his own planet and they will never use him as he is too expensive. And then he requires, at the time, about R90 000 deposit which you must pay to book your slot and then wait about 2/3 months. My COC also was done afterwards (after I asked about 10 times) by him while he was not even at my home. My last 2 enquiries were just blatantly ignored, I can see he saw my messages, but he does not bother to reply.
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