I love the Axpert/Mecer/Kodak inverters. First off, they aren’t complete crap (it’s a good design somewhat cheaply executed), but mostly, they often turn into future business for the more upmarket makers (when they fail, which they do). At that point the customer has become used to the luxury of having backup and he is willing to spend to keep it, while he also doesn’t want it to blow up again. The investment is also lower this time round, since he’s got a lot of the other stuff already. It is not unlike people who eventually sell the Ford Ranger and get a Hilux
Welcome Jakes!
Coming from the Northern Cape (where is that??) I’m sure you have your feet on the ground!
Our regular members are way too busy trying to improve beta releases of Internet of Things gizmos…
Where are the Plug & Play manne
Toyota = tata = Land Rover → you quite possibly just started the forum equivalent of thermal runaway on 4x4community
BTW, @Jakes, welcome. Ignore the hazing from the victron okes…many of them are in the western cape and just jealous of your likely winter PV generation compared to what they are likely to get
Again, another reason I like our current membership so much. We have a sense of humour. I can make dumb jokes about cars and people take it with a smile.
My brother in law bought a Ranger. The entire family’s been taking every opportunity to mess with him about that… the fact of the matter is they are good vehicles, if you treat them right. Not to sound preachy, but that really is a fact of life, is it not? If you treat your stuff with care, they last. Every December I discover that when my family comes to visit. I can run a dish washer for years with everything staying pristine, my extended family arrives, jam a knife sideways into the cutlery rack, and breaks it. That was the previous year. This year a block of cheese dropped of a shelf in the refrigerator and broke one of the racks in the door… they are R1k a pop (thanks Bosch!).
900g block of cheese. Fell down onto the top of a milk bottle in the door, chipping out a small corner of the plastic where it latches onto the indents in the door, rendering the shelf useless.
I stuck a piece of PVC over it with PVC weld, but the wife has indicated that since we have now lost two shelves, it is time to replace them.
Strange, my Bosch fridge came with some plastic parts cracked. I saw the pricing on the system and was utterly surprised at how cheap the parts were. (Was at Hirschs)
Yeah. I swear I could have gotten another 2 years out of our aging Samsung dishwasher - and taking it in for a service once every three months wasn’t that bad but the wife said it was time to get a Bosch??!!
