Solax vs Libbi batteries

anon_ymous

The Solax batteries "work with Octopus" but so does their inverter

Surely if you have their inverter, it doesn't matter so much that their batteries work with Octopus?

Libbi afaik doesn't. Am I correct in thinking that it doesn't matter as long as you've got an inverter that "works with Octopus"? 

anon_ymous

I've been looking here 


https://octopus.energy/works-with-octopus/


And I really can't see why it would matter if I did get a Libbi battery vs a Solax one for instance. Unless the idea is that it automatically exports at the best rate and imports via the inverter, at the best rate too? 

Mikeyboy01443

As far as i can tell,  my solax has no intelligence to talk to octopus, i dont know what the works with octopus thing means,  perhaps that you can set it to charge at specific times

anon_ymous

Mikeyboy01443 said:

As far as i can tell,  my solax has no intelligence to talk to octopus, i dont know what the works with octopus thing means,  perhaps that you can set it to charge at specific times

I mean, you can surely do that with most of them? Even if they don't work with Octopus? 

I guess your inverter does have some intelligence? 

Mikeyboy01443

Not that i am aware of 

It just does as it is told i believe, have not seen any setting to make it work with octopus. Might need to speak to them to clarify what qualifies something to "work with octopus"

anon_ymous

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Not that i am aware of 

It just does as it is told i believe, have not seen any setting to make it work with octopus. Might need to speak to them to clarify what qualifies something to "work with octopus"

Lol. I thought it has some intelligence RE : agile pricing? 

Mikeyboy01443

I have just looked in my solax web interface thing and they seem to have updated it - perhaps it can now talk to Octopus? not that i know what to do with this...

cm4ever

(from the above screenshot) ..... is it not the case that you can configure it with your "Octopus account" API to gain personalised configuration options i.e the API used / supplied by Octopus is 'compatible'(?) with what Solax can work with. 

But, I would have thought that functionality was more relevant to the inverter.

Mikeyboy01443

I will have to email them, its strange when i click the API acquisition bit it doesnt give me any other choice to do anything...

anon_ymous

Mikeyboy01443 said:

I will have to email them, its strange when i click the API acquisition bit it doesnt give me any other choice to do anything...

Somewhat related but it'd be interesting to see if you can say "export between 4pm to 7pm" too

I say that as currently Octopus allow you to import at 20p/kWh between 2am and 5am, and then export for 33p/kWh between 4pm and 7pm

Which is kinda cool. I guess it's mostly for "" grid stabilisation "

I wouldn't however use that tariff for an EV unless perhaps you have a zappi and exclusively charge it on eco++

Mikeyboy01443

I'm not sure about automatically but you can definitely force it to drain the battery, manually...