Plug in solar

QrizB

may be I could instal a 800w or even 2 800w systems

I suspect the rules will state that you can only have one system, and can't add these to an existing system.

I also suspect that no-one will notice if you do add them.

Baldytyke88

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927446#Comment_81927446

Could these systems be plugged(2?) into any plug? I don't know anything about ring circuits.

QrizB

Could these systems be plugged(2?) into any plug?

I am not an electrical engineer so please don't take my thoughts as being any sort of authority on this.

In Germany, where most domestic wiring uses 16A radial circuits, they're allowed one 800W system on a circuit.

I would imagine that you'd also be OK with one 800W system on a UK 32A ring main.

If I was having my house repaired or other major electrical work done, I might choose to have a dedicated circuit installed serving a single outdoor socket so I have somewhere to plug in a system in the future.

QrizB

Silly question how do these system connect up to the home electrics, it state no electrical expertise ?

Here's a guy - I think he's an electrician - who talks through the subject.He has a storage battery too. (I think he might be sponsored by some of the products he mentions, but it's not a hard sell.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na4LTD1M6nw

Oscarmax

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927446#Comment_81927446

Ecoflow have emailed me yes just plug into to your domestic wall socket, and as you say no one will notice they are portable.

Reed_Richards

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927785#Comment_81927785

And hopefully no one will notice that you are using something that does not have UK approval.

Martyn1981

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927785#Comment_81927785

Unless this has just been approved, then you can't just plug them into a socket yet. Also, the UK models (unlike the approved plug-n-play countries) come with a power lead that doesn't have a plug on it. It's ready to be hardwired in, not plugged in. Though the cable ends are pretrimmed and sealed to the correct lengths for a plug …. apparently.

Edit - Sorry, this is how the power stations are supplied, it may be different for the micro-inverters.

tfhnota

It is not approved but kinda works for some people, insurance companies will not be impressed if it goes wrong, the alternative is going the off-grid route for a separate wired circuit (this inverter will not work as it needs mains power), which will need a battery as well - if you manage to get on something like Octopus Cosy, the april rates for the three cheap periods are around 10p, call it 12p to take into account inefficiencies, so there is nothing to stop you charging the battery off the mains when there is insufficient solar, especially if you have a hybrid inverter. So you run one circuit off-grid and the rest is run on the mains, but it will mean arranging things so that the off-grid circuit can serve most of the things used in the house, powered by a combination of solar and "cheap" mains battery charging when necessary.

Oscarmax

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927927#Comment_81927927

No problem I will give a miss

Martyn1981

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81928322#Comment_81928322

But this is the news we are expecting any day now, so maybe worth keeping on eye on the thread(s).