16.03.16: Start of photovoltaic assembly

  • Erstellt am 2016-03-16 10:51:22

T21150

2016-03-21 20:23:03
  • #1
Today, 21.03.16, it continued.

The day began with the question: Where is the inverter? Supposedly, it should have been with me since Thursday. A misunderstanding, as it turned out. The device was and still is initially not available. The shipping company failed to communicate this fact.

Well – strength lies in calmness, I am still far too sick to get upset about something like that. There are more important things. The metal box will come eventually, I actually have really other problems.

The string and AC-UV were done, the main distribution box prepared so far.

The installers were still young men, less experienced. They messed up the first drilling for the strings from the bathroom (behind the knee wall) down into the utility room. The hole is somewhere (in the wall insulation, was sealed again afterward, good that I am sick, otherwise I would have sealed it myself (meaning tantrums), so I was simply quite calm).

Despite all explanations, it went wrong, I can hardly walk, one could have gotten angry. Well – until January I would always have stood beside it, but that was and is not possible now and trust on construction sites always fails. You always have to be there yourself for important trades.

Drilling #2 also seemed not to work. But I specified drilling #2. It had to work and be correct. I know my house, all the measurements, every square millimeter of the building, I helped build it.

I then asked the young guys to get a flexible probe from the car and found out: You really have to drill through the screed in the upper floor so that a hole for the strings is created – drilling even more holes, like the two planned (string cables next to boiler-solar cables, screech), would have gotten me out of my calmness after all.

Now I am waiting to see when the rest will be installed. I don’t really care about the topic right now – it is more important to me that I function again in the foreseeable time (months), the solar/photovoltaic system can wait.

Thorsten
 

T21150

2016-04-07 11:56:30
  • #2
Now, 07.04.2016. Inverter and battery have just been installed. Around 1:00 pm the city utilities will come and replace the meter. The system goes into operation today. Notification to the [BundesNetzAgentur] is sent. Unfortunately, an internal electricity meter is missing; it was not available. So today the system goes into operation without battery support, the missing part needs to be retrofitted. Apparently, the [Home Manager] is also still missing...... Well..... progress in tiny steps.
 

Sebastian79

2016-04-07 12:09:34
  • #3
But that doesn't seem to have been the best company after all...
 

T21150

2016-04-07 12:21:20
  • #4


They are okay. Very reputable and good. The installer also does absolutely spotless work.

The intelligent electricity meter is missing, but the inverter / battery arrived.
And they came immediately for further installation.

I don’t want to hold the installation company responsible for missing deliveries / delivery difficulties. They will deliver later and that’s fine with me.
Even if they need another 10 days for that, I won’t lose more than 25-30 kWh of missed energy from the battery, so I’m completely relaxed because here we are talking about Mickey Mouse amounts.

My utility room is very small. Enormously small. 4.96 sqm.
Now everything is in there, I’m amazed how much you can fit in this small room and the room still works.

- Heating
- Ventilation (Pluggit 310 is definitely not tiny)
- 300 l water
- Thermal solar
- Distribution cabinet
- Washing machine
- Telecom and networking
- Dryer
- “182” garden tools + 2 grills
- Pressure washer
- Fax
- Now the inverter and battery – also not tiny.
- and much more.

The joke is, you can still enter the room without hitting your head.
That is efficiency in space utilization…
 

Sebastian79

2016-04-07 12:30:37
  • #5
I find it rather an imposition for the trades and for oneself, but oh well.

I would definitely be angry if such parts were missing, because that speaks to poor planning by the company. At least the execution is good, but I found the waiting the worst part of the construction...
 

T21150

2016-04-07 12:40:13
  • #6


More likely poor planning by the freight forwarder who was supposed to deliver the items and simply doesn’t communicate.

Whatever. At 50, I’m simply too old to get even remotely upset about something like this. This is about 10 or 20 euros. These are just small things; with the house construction itself, I had much bigger challenges than something like this.

Another person will just come by again and install something.
If I were in their position, I would be annoyed: Over 100 km one way from the quasi Münsterland here for a small part....

Most of the photovoltaic trade work will be done by around 3:00 pm, I’ve taken another step forward with my house, and I’m really happy about that. I’ve made progress again, and that’s simply nice.
 

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