 Our Photovoltaic Expansion 3
For now, we just have to wait for the sun collectors, which, by the way, end up costing not just 200 €, but 260 € including shipping. Solakon attributes the high price to the fact that the storage units may only be transported
as hazardous materials. In that case, however, it would have to be cheaper for just two collectors.
I guess there's nothing we can do about it. By the way, we still have no promotional ties to Solakon. So, let's continue. Our streak of bad luck just won't end. In the workshop, the large fluorescent tube burns out, and the
multimeter, which has always served me so well, no longer measures 230V AC correctly.
Of course I checked the battery, but it's too hot for me to drive to the hardware store just to get a multimeter and a fluorescent tube. But let's move on. The circuit board arrived today. Another blunder like that. The item that
was sent bears no resemblance whatsoever to the one shown in the ad.s
Only now are we discovering that there were more pictures, and they are indeed identical to the one that was sent. But as far as we know, it doesn't have any ENS functions. I immediately complained to the seller, albeit very
politely. He wants pictures that he actually already has. It smells like a delaying tactic.
Shall we summarize once more everything we don't have? No, we don't, but there's one thing we haven't mentioned yet. We still can't monitor the new system. We are currently running them blindly and somehow drawing
additional power from it.
Why? Because it was so easy. Just grab your laptop, go to 'app.solakon.de', open an account, it's all a breeze. Then comes the kicker: You're supposed to walk up to the device with your smartphone and
then switch it from Bluetooth to Wi-Fi. Fortunately, after some incredible experiences, we asked our son for his old phone.
Now you have to repeat the whole process again on your smartphone. And then comes the point where I couldn't go any further with this Samsung Galaxy phone. Because, for some inexplicable reason, the location query
had been blocked. And that's exactly what the app wants to use to access weather data.
It took a very long time just to figure out the cause of the stoppage, but even longer to realize that we couldn't fix it on the device itself. Help like that always tells you what you need to do, but unfortunately doesn't provide a link
so you can do it right away.
Are you still there? And all of that cost me credits on ChatGPT, too. In the end, they told me I wouldn't receive any response at all for the next ten hours. That's
what happens when you only have the 'Go' plan for eight euros a month.
No, the software problem still hasn't been resolved. My son couldn't remember, so I had the brilliant idea to reset the smartphone to its factory settings. We actually managed to do that, but when we relaunched, we
somehow ended up under Google's wing.
This 'octopus is even more prevalent on Android than on Windows PCs. We had already reported that we haven't been able to access our Google account for months. If we say we've forgotten our
password, they won't accept our phone number, no matter how we enter it.
We were also unable to set up a new account using either our existing email address or a new one. Our old Sony Xperia made it as far as the location question, but
then it got too hot. I've been working with computers for 45 years, but I've never seen such a circus.
And when I tell my piano teacher, a die-hard Apple fan, about it, he just says, 'See#?' and that makes me even more annoyed. Let's end on a positive note: The new installation charged our Hyundai Kona for 12 hours at 1.2
kW today for the first time.
No, you don't need a special wallbox, you don't need one at all. You don't need an extra cable either, since nearly every electric car comes with one as standard. Perhaps, as in our case, you need a
extension cord. But that's really all there is to it, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
| A 12-hour charge is currently enough for about 100 km. |
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