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Inverter issue - Serious?
Was surprised to see no generation this morning when it was a lovely sunny morning here.Checked my solaredge panel and it's got this error - Is this a big issue? Just waiting for the wife to get home before I contact the solar company.
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Good Energy deal?
Sign up to Solar Savings to earn 15p per kWh for the electricity you export. For the average home that exports 50% of the power it generates, that amounts to £213. That's over £100 more than the same home would get on the best-paying FIT export rate*. I am skeptical of any offer that implies a win-win situation. For some…
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Tesla launches Powershare - Bi Directional Charging
Early days but very exciting to see Tesla get behind V2H. https://electrek.co/2023/11/30/tesla-releases-powershare-bidirectional-charging-on-cybertruck-only-so-far/
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Uhome LFP 2400 Battery
Good Morning, I had a Solar system installed this year comprising Luxpower Hybrid Inverter LXP-3.6K, and 2 x Uhome LFP 2400 batteries. All working well. I obtained 2 new Uhome 2400 batteries and with the help of the technical support, and the manual for settings they were installed. Unfortunately the 2 new batteries never…
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Solar and battery system – battery nowhere near stated capacity and installer does not want to know
Looking for some advice on what to do here. We had a solar and battery system installed in February: Afore Inverter, 10 panels, 2 x 5.1kWh Pytes 48R100
batteries. There were a number of issues* (I’ll put some of those in post
#2 with a spoiler), but by far the worst is that the battery system holds
nowhere near the…
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Solar: DNO confirmation?
I had my solar panels hurriedly installed in March 2019, just before the end of the FIT scheme. Recently I looked back at the paperwork: MCS certificate, yes, DNO confirmation No. What I do have is a copy of a form G83/2 SSEG INSTALLATION COMMISSIONING CONFIRMATION. This tells the DNO that my installation complies with the…
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Solar & battery quote
Hi, Looking for some input on cost of our intended PV system... South coast,18 panels on south facing (165dg) roof, no shading. All electric, annual usage 6000kWh (when being very, very tight with electric heating and DHW!), new smart meter, currently Octopus flexible. No EV. We have been looking at various PV systems over…
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Solar PV and Octopus- DNO, MCS, MPAN (etc) Formalities
We're not there yet but I want to understand in advance as much as possible about the formalities around getting set up for an export tariff. We're an existing Octopus customer and will be going initially with their fixed export. The installation has a G99 application approved. At what stage do we get the "DNO Letter" that…
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Solar Edge Grid Monitoring Connection (or lack of)
Hi, With a Solaredge system, optimisers, inverter, battery, what if any is the impact if the monitoring connection to the incoming supply is not in place? The installer says the only effect will be that the Solaredge dashboard won't show import/export, but there will be no loss of function. Does that sound correct? This…
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Opting out of FIT exports to get Octopus Outgoing
I was going to ask for advice on here but I've bitten the bullet and gone for it. Today I requested to opt out of the FIT export payments with Ecotricity and signed up for Outgoing Octopus. I'll post back here with any developments and how things unfold. My 3.42kWp array was installed in 2017 and I've been receiving deemed…
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British Gas - Your FIT payments are being suspended
Just received this in an email from British Gas today with no previous contact despite submitting FIT readings and receiving payment in Oct. Seems absolutely crazy that they immediately go to suspend FIT payments if they can't access on a single visit and make no further attempt at contact or visiting to verify. Photos now…
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Solar plus Battery Quotes
Good Morning All I've recently received quotes from three installers and wondered if you good people could comment as to the costs and equipment quoted for. For context we are a four person household, using 5500kWh per year. Kids are early twenties so we'll have them at home for a few more years. Wife and myself expect to…
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Solar & Battery Quote
Hi, new member but decades user of the website. We have recently moved into a new place and needed to get a new central heating system, as the quotes for new gas boiler, cylinder and new radiators was almost the same as a heat pump system, I decided to go with the heat pump. We have installed a Samsung 12kW HT Monobloc &…
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Luxpower 3.6k Discharge Limit
I have 5kW PV 6.4kW batteries and Luxpower 3.6 inverter.Since the Luxpower server debacle of a week or two ago, my inverter is now limited to 3kw discharge from the batteries. Even on forced discharge.I used to get 3.6kW.I suspect in my efforts to communicate with the inverter I have reset something? Discharge limit is set…
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Solar Battery Fault, BuyBack ?
Collective folks, I wonder if I can get some advice please .. I have a 4KW Solar solution on our house, and an 6.4Kw/hr LG Battery. The system is 8 years old, so I have 2 years of warranty left on the syste, but in August, the BMS (Battery Management System) Developed a fault. This is where things became complicated, as my…
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Expanding an existing PV System with more panels
Greetings! I was fortunate to be able to help a forum member with their system last year and then expand their system substantially this year, in a manner not too dissimilar to my own PV system expansion. I wondered if: 1) The DNO needs to be notified of the additional panels if the inverter has not changed? He's on a G99.…
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Octopus Eco 7
I have battery storage and now that winter is here my solar panels are somewhat lacklustre. As such I was considering moving to Octopus Eco 7 to take advantage of the nighttime rates to charge the batteries. I am currently on their Flexible Tariff and it has taken them almost 8 months to get my billing with my export…
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Switch Energy
Not a government company. A separate company that claim back their subbed out work to the energy companies. Very suspicious. They even offered me £1k on completion of ASHP!
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A Year with V2H
Not sure if folks on here will find this interesting but hopefully this tech will be coming to general availability rather than just trials sooner rather than later so here is a post I put on the V2X facebook group Just completed 12 full months of V2H (started with V2H and TOU tariff mid September 22). First month we had 2…
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WANTED: Men’s Skin Care & Hygiene brands for Teenager
:) Please suggest any male brands skin care and hygiene range with highly reduce chemicals. Looking to reduce my teenagers son exposure to ingredients like aluminium, parabens etc in his deodorant and skin care range. My son would only use male branded products and not the general family range as ‘they are for females’. I…
