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What is your backup plan for winter on the long dark days when there is next to no sunshine? Are you putting mains power to your out building as well, or small generator, or batteries on a trolley to transport to house for charging?

If you mounted the panels on the bottom row then the rain would run off them and go right over the top of your gutter, pretty certain there is a rule or guidance on top and bottom limits to panels, sure I read it but just can’t recall it, I am sure a clever person will be along just shortly to...

Yip as sharpie said less flex on longer spans also made frames out of it where we had panels on both side and so much easier to use the Zebadees.

Used miles of the 41mm stuff also the 41mm back to back stuff used a fair bit but not as much as just the standard 41mm. All other sizes very minimal usage.

I do like @kerching idea of getting in touch with Curry’s and asking them where you can get such a fuse, that appealed to me.

Do you mean 12? Which is your meter. 23 is a control transformer

3 thermal overload unit 6 is good as you have it: induction motor 7 is good as you have it: RCD residual current device 15 is good as you have it: electrical insulated gloves 19 is good as you have it: push button 23 mmmmm I would call it a control transformer but other correct answers would be...

I don’t have the ptz hikvision ones only the static ones but when I go into my hikvision remote access app I can see the wee icon I would use to ptz the cameras if I had them.

Well done John this is the type of mix of clever and practical stuff I like.

Me too ^^^

Very interesting John

Don’t believe he did the training course, it all certainly appeared to be fairly straightforward to me, he even fitted a system for me at mates rates, 4 camera POE system.

Cheers Binky Looks like I will be keeping an eye on my kinda near-by solar wholesaler in the New Year to see what they have going.

Think it might be starting to sink in so: Get 4 or 6 new panels, rails, clamps, and a grid tied inverter and a ct. Add my immersion into the diverter making the immersion the primary load? So this leads onto the next set of questions sorry binky. Do all inverters have this ct facility to add on...

Thanks binky but if my water immersion and room heater was up to temp, what is to stop my inverter exporting say 3kW and the new inverter exporting its 4 or 6 panel worth so maybe 1.5kW and so exceeding the limit, I am not seeing how one inverter knows what the other is doing.

My cctv friend tends to fit Hikvision which is Chinese but not cheap Chinese. Most electronic items come from China including IPhones.

@binky I’m getting confused so please bear with me. Are you saying my present 12 panel grid tied system just stays as is, which is good as that doesn’t interfere with my FIT payment. I then add my new 4 panels over the old thermal panels in the middle of roof or say 6 panels if I shift my...

Thanks gents for the replies. @bladerunnerpv If you look at the pic the two panels in the middle are the solar thermal panels that I am looking to replace with PV so the gap I have to play with will fit 4 standard panels. I do already use an Imerson solar diverter on my current PV system...

My turn to ask a solar question, more a question of is there such a product available. Background info. Rural property, current system is: solar thermal 2 panel drain back system which feeds one of the coils in my 200L hot water cylinder. Was a good system as it means that in the summer it gave...

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