Octopus Saving sessions 2023

silverwhistle

I switched off at the fuse box and read a book in front of the wood burner by the light of an led lamp. Very restful, I have to say, but no idea how many micro pence I made.

mickyduck55

silverwhistle said:

I switched off at the fuse box and read a book in front of the wood burner by the light of an led lamp. Very restful, I have to say, but no idea how many micro pence I made.

I made no changes as I would also have made nothing, I guess the saving we make are 99% of the time I'm saving because I generate my own power or charge batteries at a cheaper rate with a good export tariff which in summer offsets my winter bill.  Octo Aid is saying Im still -£126 over the last 6 months for my combined Gas and electricity usage.

ABrass

My results are in. I pre-charged my battery and then let it use that as normal during the session. I hadn't thought of exporting deliberately so it was just offsetting my use, which is low at that time as the battery often still has charge from the PV.

I saved 96% of my power and a whopping 0.74kWh over my normal usage.

gradgrind

I set the batteries to force discharge for the hour, and got 4400 Octopoints = £5.50. Will definitely be doing that again.

Slinky

I've posted this elsewhere, but think this thread may bring me a better response. 

We are on Tracker with Octopus, only had the panels and batteries a few months, I've never done any import/export other than what ordinarily happens. The sun's out here today, similar to yesterday where we got up from 20% to 81% of our 9.6kw battery by 3pm. I hope I've set the Solis inverter to top up between 3-5pm-ish, then discharge between 5-6.3pm. Does this look right?

powerful_Rogue

Slinky said:

I've posted this elsewhere, but think this thread may bring me a better response. 

We are on Tracker with Octopus, only had the panels and batteries a few months, I've never done any import/export other than what ordinarily happens. The sun's out here today, similar to yesterday where we got up from 20% to 81% of our 9.6kw battery by 3pm. I hope I've set the Solis inverter to top up between 3-5pm-ish, then discharge between 5-6.3pm. Does this look right?

Looks pretty spot on to me!

Slinky

Well it got to 3pm and nothing happened, so I went through all the instructions again, and found I hadn't done the bit to enable charging from the grid which is on a separate submenu. Fiddled about with it to start from 3.15pm and away it went.  I'm assuming that it will now switch to discharging at 5pm.  I did a quick bit of ironing, to save the 2p increase on rate for if I'd been doing it tomorrow, and have pre-boiled a kettle and stuck the contents in a flask for a quick re-boil during the saving session.  OH plans on grilling for about 10 minutes during the saving session but hopefully we will make some money this time. Last time we only got points worth 15p, as we're low users with the battery and didn't have much scope to reduce it further just by cutting back.

cm4ever

Well at least this time around I'd prepared and configured my export correctly and it's working as it should - unlike last time...

Just 1hr left to go.

mickyduck55

cm4ever said:

Well at least this time around I'd prepared and configured my export correctly and it's working as it should - unlike last time...

Just 1hr left to go.

I had to get support from China to configure my Lux inverter, the system settings I needed tweaking are not accessible to a home user.

QrizB

I thought I'd set my Sofar to top up my battery from 1500-1600, but it didn't

Fortunately we had enough sunshine today (almost an O) that we made it through the session without the battery going flat.

I'm still on deemed export so there wasn't anything to gain from a battery dump.