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Coin cell recharger?
There's a decent amount of chargers and rechargeable batteries when it comes to AA and AAA batteries but I'm looking at rechargeable CR1632 batteries and a corresponding charger, I don't find much Does anyone know if such a thing even exists? Or are they kinda like those alkaline chargers where they technically exist but…
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Octopus Intelligent
Would you be able to charge say a compatible car? (Or charge using an Ohme charger), and charge up any solar batteries at the same time? Using the Octopus compare app, it's showing that I'd save money on intelligent vs flux. Granted, I don't actually have an EV just yet and granted it isn't showing how much I'd gain from…
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Faulty generation meter
I passed 30000 kwh last week and have noted on my geo several 10 plus kwh days since then so when I looked at my generation meter just after midday I was surprised to see it say 30007.8, since then we added another 4 kwh this afternoon but just checked and it says 30008.4. Something is clearly wrong, my panels are…
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Standard DNO timing?
Can anyone give an idea of how long the standard DNO form takes to come back for system 3.6kw?
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Anyone used the Solarman App? (BTW- it’s rubbish)
Has anyone used the solarman app? It seems terrible. Issues I have - altho the total generated is correct and matches my meter, when you look at the “statistics” history by day it has loads of 0 days (clearly nonsense), and the summarised total is just 20% of the total meter number. Again, clearly nonsense - it has total…
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Solar battery - are they worth it now?
Just have a quote £4k for 3.2kw battery. 10 year warranty with ese group. have 12 panels 3.9kw system with solar edge. annual consumption 7,300 units 5 bed house with hot tub I don’t think we can tell how much of the solar we’re using. I appreciate it’s impossible to be exact but anyone got a rough guide as to whether this…
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Forever Green Energy Quotation
I have had a number of quotes for solar panels. I am leaning towards the one from Forever Green Energy in Cheltenham basically because they were very thorough, informative, detailed and efficient with their quotation. Other firms promised to send me quotes and didn't bother or just gave me a verbal quote. They were a…
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Solar panel quote check + advice
Hi all Like many I'm considering solar panels and I was hoping some of the experts around here could help me move forwards with a reasonable course of action. I've been quoted £12.8k for the following: 1) 10 505w Trina black panels, six on S-facing roof, 4 on flat roof angled in solar bins 2) K2 solar mounting system + 4x…
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Advice needed for solar panel certification.
We have recently had a 7kw inverter installed (10.4kw on the roof) and 10kw of batteries.The installer stated that this would include : "Includes all material, labour, commissioning and certification" which I stupidly took to mean MCS and G99. The actual install took 6 months to complete but is at least working.. and now 6…
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Switching from deemed tariff to export tariff, and Octopus Flux with no battery?
Confused solar panel newbie here needing a bit of help, many many thanks in advance! We bought a house that already had solar panels installed, and moved in end of December last year. As much as I tried to do some research and reading, I still haven't fully understood some of the intricacies of FIT tariffs, export tariffs,…
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Does Solax inverters have a timed forced discharge?
I have a Solax inverter and battery, which I have set up to charge during a off-peak rate. I can see in the Work Mode list, you can choose "Manual" and then "Forced Discharge". In the settings menu that needs the PIN to access, there is a "Chrg&Dischrg Period", which i have used to set the time to Force charge the battery,…
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It's only a little niggle
Wouldn't it be nice if the Octopus app showed export as something other than 'used'? I'm sure the exported energy is used by my neighbours... :smiley:
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Luxpower monitoring why is this happening
I have just been looking at what my solar is up to on the luxpower monitor, and I see this. Why am I exporting at this point. Surely the battery should be providing any extra power required and that is all. Why am I exporting to the grid. Any ideas
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EV charging apps
I have genie point, pod point apps for EV charging and zapmap to help find chargers.Up until now we've had a PHEV so charged sometimes but if we've turned up and we don't have a particular app just decided to not charge. Picking up EV on Friday so will have no choice. gridserve? instavolt?
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Fit payments uniform everywhere...?
I've had solar panels for about 12 years and always been with Eon and everything has always run smoothly During that time we changed our gas/electric supplier several times to avoid being milked as a loyal customer... I had never considered changing FIT provider - is there a need to or do they all simply honour the…
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Recommended PV installers in London
Is anyone able to recommend solar PV installers who cover South East London (or suggestions of installers to avoid)?
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Adding extra Solar Panels
March 2022 we installed a 4.4 kWh solar array our system is registered with Western Power G98, our system is south south west, we are considering and additional 3 kWh solar array to our north north west elevation, our roof has a 30 degree slope, we are assuming the north north elevation to be at least 30% less efficient,…
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Solar Battery output/discharge rate
Can someone who is familiar with Givenergy answer this question please? If I understand correctly Givenergy Giv-Bat 5.2kwh has a discharge rate of 3kWh (51.2v x 60A = 3kWh) If I have 2 Givenergy Giv-Bat 5.2kwh paired, would the output/discharge rate be doubled to 6kWh, or it doesn't work like that? Reading the Givenergy…
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The investment benefits or not of solar
Interesting take on this on banking and Investment forum https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6441813/solar-panels-and-savings/p1
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2nd Solaredge battery cost
Does anybody have a rough idea of how much it would cost to have a 2nd Solaredge battery supplied and fitted to an existing Solaredge system? I guess question is to the installers here.
