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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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What does the BUS involve?
Looking online, I see that you get a grant of up to 7.5K for a heat pump, yet I'm not sure if that's just for a heat pump itself, or also say if it covers any piping, tank or radiator upgrades too? My initial plan was: - Super insulate where possible - To have larger pipes given they're microbore - To replace my radiators…
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Should I charge my battery today?
Solis inverter and 9.6kw Pylon batteries. Our Octopus Tracker tariff for tomorrow is 13.2% higher than today. Is it worth topping up our battery today, or will the loss not be worth it? TIA
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Solis force discharge?
asking for a friend - is there a way to set the solis inverter, to force discharge to grid ie. it is currently paying a good export rate, i want to dump my battery to grid… is this possible? anyone know how if so? there are plenty of solis owners on here i think!
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Going green(er) with a Viessmann 200W (& heating efficiency home improvements)
Following the success of our heating gas saving measures, we've decided to install polypipe underfloor heating on the ground floor of our semi-detached, paired with a new 19kW Viessman 100-W compact heat only boiler. Reasons for going with Viessman boiler are: 1) Ability of the boiler to modulate down to < 3 kW (1:10…
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Lux 3600 ACS Inverter and 4 Greenlynx Batteries Settings for force discharge
Looking for some advise on the best settings for force discharge And was told the batteries could be set the cut off (SOC) to 0 but when it gets down to 15% it starts charging and showing in Yellow as the attached photo.
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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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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 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, 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 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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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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Scottish Power SEG
Is anyone here with Scottish Power SEG? I'm currently with Octopus SEG paying 4.1p and that is the best I can get since I am on an EV tariff and not keen on their flux tariff, next best paying SEG is Scottish Power SEG which pays 12p which is 3 times more than Octopus. Only things I don't like about it is they pay once…
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How we reduced our heating gas consumption by 25%
2021 vs. 2022 comparison of actual kWh winter heating consumption (will update this thread in March to account for temperature variance). The reduction in consumption is measurable, so wanted to share how we were able to substantially reduce our property's heating gas consumption. Appreciate that not everything will be…
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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…
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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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ESE Solar Panel Free Health Check
Received a letter today marked "Important" from a company called ESE. "Our records indicate you haven't received your free health check and service on your system and your warranty may be due to expire. Please contact our team to validate your warranty and book your health check" The company is nothing to do with the…
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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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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…
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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…
