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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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  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,001 Forumite
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    The screen only updates every 5 minutes. At the second of update it was likely something had just changed, maybe the sun going behind a cloud or your freezer clicked off. It takes a second or two for the inverter to switch to battery and a bit of electricity "leaks" to the grid.

    If you click on the little icon to the right of "normal" a few times, you can make the screen update manually.
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  • propnut
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    Watch this and then you will understand why.

    https://youtu.be/vX7HqQY1xj8
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