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    Solar sensor placement

    Can you do “Soft Reboot” on inverter Hold down one of the buttons and lnverter screen wii ask if you want to reboot select yes and the inverter will turn to “Standby Mode” Do the same procedure to Start the inverter (This is the same if you turn off the isolator but the Soft Reboot is kinder to...
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    Solar sensor placement

    Your Load is 1095w, your solar is 547w and importing 557w and battery 57w near its 10% SOC level soon to cut out. What was the house load at the time? Seems working fine My solax does the same with my Solax batteries importing when house load is more than solar, very rarely my two Solax...
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    New Octopus Tariff for Solar and Batteries- Octopus Flux

    Just read more info on T&C’s for Octopus Flux on variable tariff subject to whole sale prices not fixed for 12 months. Going to give this a miss.
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    New Octopus Tariff for Solar and Batteries- Octopus Flux

    Agree totally with you to use every kw produced by your Generation and Storage Plant. 👌 Yes Octopus Intelligent does look the Best at the moment if your Tariff is about to expire.
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    New Octopus Tariff for Solar and Batteries- Octopus Flux

    John would the Octopus Flux not work for you then? Or do you do many miles in your EV’s to be counter productive to the Export which looks enticing . At the moment with 10kw of battery storage to use covers a lot of home usage only imported 15 kw last month rest off peak So a big saving on at...
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    New Octopus Tariff for Solar and Batteries- Octopus Flux

    Only for certain Charger and cars Go is good up to Sept before price rise
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    New Octopus Tariff for Solar and Batteries- Octopus Flux

    Just seen Octopus have released this new tariff. https://octopus.energy/smart/flux/ Looks very flexible and high Export rates But not so I think when you have EV on Octopus Go at the rates.
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    Which hybrid inverter for 3.6kw

    The new Sunsynk 3.6 kW inverter for UK G98. MTTP 7200 watts for solar PV and 3600watts for battery check out UTube for more information
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    Solar PV vs Grid usage

    Needs to point to Grid, reposition check values on app do a kettle test. Battery should supply up to 3000w for standard kettle if no readings from battery it is incorrect reposition as before wait for installer.
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    Solax Inverter Hanging onto grid: Query

    Hybrid G4 model Check Settings>Advanced>PGrid BIAS Inverter set as Default Change to Disable to reduce Grid import You might need a Firmware update from Solax if PGrid BIAS is not there in Advanced settings Hope this helps
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    Discrepancy on solar app Vs smart meter readings for power consumption from grid.

    That’s to check the system as you’ve found out
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    Discrepancy on solar app Vs smart meter readings for power consumption from grid.

    There is no harm in changing location and direction of CT clamp just look at the apps and inverter to check if it was put on back to front.
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    Discrepancy on solar app Vs smart meter readings for power consumption from grid.

    My Hypervolt 2.0 CT clamp is after the meter and solax battery system 11.6kW connected to solax X1 AC 3.6 inverter and iBoost+ CT clamp for info. Plus I have solar PV array 5.2kW solax string Boost (does not take batteries) All working today in a bit of sunny skies Charging battery system from...
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    Discrepancy on solar app Vs smart meter readings for power consumption from grid.

    Is that a CT Clamp (left of picture) before your meter? If so what is the CT clamp for? All CT clamps need to be after the DNO meter on the Live cable
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    Discrepancy on solar app Vs smart meter readings for power consumption from grid.

    Check the location of the inverter CT Clamp Most read import located at the incoming Live cable (Not Neutral) from DNO Meter to 100A Isolator then maybe to Black Henley Block for incoming Live and Neutral Tails Then split depending on whether their is Main CU and Mini CU’s for ie EV Charger...
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    FIT 3Kwp System from 2014. Should I be adding batteries?

    To keep your Fit, you are looking for AC coupled battery system great in the summer but for winter if not on TOU Tariff ie Octopus Go tariff 4 hours off peak to charge batteries will be hard to use effectively if at all, only at a standard tariff at peak price not cost effective. Depends also...
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    New PV install question, Solax inverter setup

    I also have Solax X1 Boost 3.6kW inverter for PV 5.2kW array split south east/ south west, no CT or Meter just Solax WiFi dongle Solax WiFi dongle for the cloud and iPhone gives you details Then got Solax X1 AC 3.6kW inverter and Solax Master and slave batteries 11.6kW connected by CT pins 1...
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    New PV install question, Solax inverter setup

    Do you have the model info You can do CT to the incoming Live after DNO meter then to the Meter/CT Connector in The inverter to monitor via Solax Cloud or Solax mobile app. Different Solax models have different CT pinouts Pins for RG45 but most us Pin 1 white/orange Pin 4 Blue X1 AC power...
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    New PV install question, Solax inverter setup

    You state your model is non hybrid. Solax X1 Boost only work with solar and not batteries. Looks like installer put in energy meter could be Eastron 230 or Chinnt DSU666 wired but not connected to inverter Inverter will work but with little info In inverter settings if Meter or CT is...
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    Optimal distance between batteries

    Like I Said The Boost will charge batteries from PV Solar. You can not (no connectors) connect batteries on X1 Boost models What Solax inverter are you going to use for Solax Batteries?
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