So now I have a solar PV system how do I make the most of it???

gefnew

Here are the three bad boys all free from energy companies over the years .

QrizB

Very nice.

My minim is kept usefully employed monitoring my solar generation. I had a CC128 measuring import & export but it's mostly been supplanted by my IHD (the CC128 still measures export).

gefnew

Thank you for your input that makes MSE  all about use what we have.

john999boy

Slightly OT but SSE have emailed today that their FIT payments are moving to OVO shortly and it seems their payment times are a lot longer than the ones for SSE.

My question is from the companies available, who manages to pay in a prompt manner and ideally at dates in line (or ability to send additional readings) with the FIT increases in April?

FYI I also have a metered (and not deemed) export meter.

mickyduck55

john999boy said:

Slightly OT but SSE have emailed today that their FIT payments are moving to OVO shortly and it seems their payment times are a lot longer than the ones for SSE.

My question is from the companies available, who manages to pay in a prompt manner and ideally at dates in line (or ability to send additional readings) with the FIT increases in April?

FYI I also have a metered (and not deemed) export meter.

Eon pay very promptly and asked me for a meter reading in April to be added to my June submission... been with them since 2011 NEVER an issue ... yes I know tempting fate here...

QrizB

john999boy said:

My question is from the companies available, who manages to pay in a prompt manner and ideally at dates in line (or ability to send additional readings) with the FIT increases in April?

My first payment from E.ON Next took a few weeks but since then it's been within a week of submitting a meter reading.

They run a fixed schedule, with meter readings every March / June / September / December.

Doc_N

One more vote for e.on.  Been with them since 2010 and they’ve been faultless for at least 10 years.

paul991

octopus acknowledge  and calculate within hours   , pay within  2  days

orrery

gefnew said:

I use this and is very good on the supply side so would do on the solar side.
Onzo Wireless Smart Energy Monitor Brand new surplus stock | eBay

Does anyone have a link to a manual for the Onzo device? Pretty please?

70sbudgie

Reed_Richards said:

70sbudgie said:

Has anyone else looked into FIR (far infrared) heating? It can also be referred to as high efficiency electric heating.... 

But only by marketing types who don't care about telling porkies.  All direct radiant heating is bound by the laws of physics to an inverse square law of efficiency.  If you are one metre away you get X amount of heat, 2 metres away you get X/4, 3 metres away it's X/9 etc.  So anything claiming to heat the person not the room only works if the person remains very close to the heat source. 

I suppose you could focus the FIR and move the lens around to track the position of the person in the room, that would give you better than inverse square drop-off.  But they don't work that way and if they did it would still only work for one person at a time.      

I'd not thought of it, but this is why it works so well in my home office - I sit about half a metre from the panel. Hmm, perhaps that makes my "trial" a bit misleading and the context is even more important than I'd considered. It works well if you are heating a stationary individual who is near to the panel. 

It is still only 300W though, which is far better than most small heaters which are typically 1.2kW or more.