Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

legoman62

shafeeq wrote: »

How long did it take them to change meter?

I think it took the Eon guy less than an hour.
I had mine changed 1 year to the day of yours.
He came in the morning (9 ish) so I lost very little generation.

shafeeq

legoman62 wrote: »

I think it took the Eon guy less than an hour.
I had mine changed almost 1 year to the day of yours.
He came in the morning (9 ish) so I lost very little generation.

Im at work tomorrow. Unless the guy who changes the meter goes up the loft to turn it on it has to wait until offset back from work. so will lose full days generation. The weather forecast is not that good so don't thing or would generate more then 1kwh anyway.

Oscargrouch

shafeeq wrote: »

Im at work tomorrow. Unless the guy who changes the meter goes up the loft to turn it on it has to wait until offset back from work. so will lose full days generation. The weather forecast is not that good so don't thing or would generate more then 1kwh anyway.

Tell em you want a qualified sparky to do the job. Surely there is a main fuse in your meter box, and if he turns the main switch off on your consumer unit, your SP's are not going to push anything into the grid/meter until all is put back and switched back on...'Jobs Good'...:mad: Bye the way, 7 hrs constant clear sky for Sheffield the morrow...:rotfl:

shafeeq

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Tell em you want a qualified sparky to do the job. Surely there is a main fuse in your meter box, and if he turns the main switch off on your consumer unit, your SP's are not going to push anything into the grid/meter until all is put back and switched back on...'Jobs Good'...:mad: Bye the way, 7 hrs constant clear sky for Sheffield the morrow...:rotfl:

Yes that's what I assumed, I thought switch it off from the fuse box, I asked the guys who installed the solar panels and I was told

"Ideally you'd start in the loft and turn the DC (grey and black isolator) off first then the AC (grey and red) in the loft then then the AC downstairs"

He said if he pass by my house and check if the work is done and they havn't turn the solar panels ON then he will do it for me.

EricMears

I can't see why anything in the house needs to be switched off when a meter is changed.

I'd expect them to remove the main fuse (i.e. the one that's in the meter cupboard & wired up so that you can't interfere with it) before changing meter which will of course cut off all power to the house. Replacing it after the meter change would restore things to normal and the inverter ought to fire itself up automatically just as it would after any normal power cut.

John_Pierpoint

Oscargrouch wrote: »

2.7kWh today, better than yesterday.




Above is a 'screen snapshot' taken today 11:12 - 12:15. Shows boiling a kettle at 11:37 - 11:38 for a coffee. Blue below the line is great, even above the line is good as long as it is less than the red....:rotfl: (Kettle BTW is a 2.5kW) :mad:

What fun I think my wife might just about manage to understand this.
The purple bit of the boiling of the kettle represents the 2/3rds you paid for. The red bit that mirrors the green generation below the import export line represents the 1/3rd of the pot of tea you "mashed" for free.:T
Do I get a gold star?

How much is a "Holmes"?

If you post your day time unit price and preferably the temperature of your mains (?) water - "z" could come along and tell you how many cups of water were in the pot and what you saved. Did you wait for the kettle to turn itself off?

John_Pierpoint

I have had my meter replaced, took about 20 minutes.
I explained to the subcontract installer from Norwich, working for nPower, about the inverter, so we turned that off too. Main exercise was pulling the "company fuse".

As I remember turning back on was the reverse of turning off - though I have seen some debate (Australian?) about the order of doing so. The Aurora inverter has helpful information about installations (Third world countries ?????) without proper switching using black polythene to cover the panels:eek: [Could they "fry" themselves in the tropical sun?]

Then nPower decided to send in another man some weeks later to double check the job (perhaps the computer had flagged the change in my usage?) He complained that the brown terminal block that now connects the new PV to the old 1970s simplistic wiring, had not been sealed. He could not explain why it should have been, when it is on my side of their meter ?!?

EricMears

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

How much is a "Holmes"?

'Holmes' is free actually - although you can only use it if you first buy a 'Wattson' meter (around £140 new or rather less for a secondhand unit).

I have tried - several times - to download Holmes but have never managed to make it work properly. But I'm reasonably happy with just the Wattson unit indicating whether we're exporting or importing and can get any extra info I want from the inverter software or the conventional meter.

Maidenover

My head hurts and my eyes are bleeding :eek:
What language are you people talking and what planet do you hail from :huh:
Seriously.....I don't think I understood a word (admittedly I have skipped about 99 pages) B U T .....how do you know so much stuff??
I'm guessing it's all about generating electricity from Solar Panels but sounds to me like you need a degree in astrophysics and chemistry and meteorology and lots of other ologies to get sorted with those ugly great panels stuck on your roof - very attractive not.

So how do I get started

shafeeq

Very bad day.. the sun was out... but had panels switched off. . They guy came around 11.20 and left about 11.35. didn't turn the solar panels on.

He only changed the Meter and didn't install the import metre as I was told.
I came home around 5 and switch panels on.

There is tomorrow. ..