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Doesnt sound right to me.. I have ~3kw of panels, 2 strings, east and west facing, sunny all day yesterday, see the picture below for solar output during the day. Notice the drop in production after about 11:30am, this was the inverter limiting the solar output as the battery banks were getting...

Im also now starting to look into automating charging overnight based on the weather forecast. Currently i use a smart plug and sheduling app that goes with it to shedule the charging as my inverter does not have sheduling. I will use home assistant to operate this smart plug depending on the...

I havent checked that make, but usually when claiming 100% dod, the batteries are actually a larger capacity than stated, usually 10-20%, so they can then get away with the 100% advertising, not technically true though.

I have an epever 3kw hybrid inverter charger hm10022 (24v) About £550, so cheap price. They are known to produce reliable hardware, but you dont get all the bells and whistles that you will get with a victron. But, you can add the bells and whistles yourself if you have the time at a later stage.

3kw from 14.4kw of lifepo4 storage is not straining the batteries in the slightest, i could pull 14.4kw+ and drain them down in an hour no probs. - (edit, nearly forgot about the bms's - which would limit the power being drawn to 9.6kw continuous, but the batteries themselves are more than...

Thank you, means alot 👍 i guess i am proud yes, but im really not clever at all, and this time last year i knew absolutely nothing about solar, but i decided just go all in and learn, taking it one step at a time, and if your a nerd too 🤓,, i have no doubts that you could do something similar...

(moderators - feel free to paste my post somewhere else if this is seen as hijacking the thread!) Ahh ok, didnt realise you couldnt see the photos properly.. The banks total 14.4kw, i use about 8kw a day in winter and about 5 in the summer, so plenty for me, but obviously its all relative...

Hi, no probs, its pretty much all done now, just finishing off a few minor bits n pieces, but here is my build thread from a couple months back on another forum (not finished at the time of making the thread below, and bearing in mind that its not for everyone!, but its ok for me as i live in a...

If your using about 10kw a day, with a 48kw bank, that equates to about 20% usage of the capacity of the battery each day, hence why they lasted 12 years, although i suspect they would not have much capacity left after this time, wheres a lifep04 would still be going strong for probably another...

I looked into the lead acid stuff before going for lifepo4 (lithium iron phosphate), and your experience seems to be quite unique. "Lead acid is much less fussy then LiPo and can handle over discharge and over charge with out suffering damage unlike LiPo. So the inverter doesn't turn it self...

Dont even bother with lead acid, they would last you about 2 years discharging to 50%, you can only really discharge them 20% meaning you loose 80% of thieir capacity, then they MAY last you 6-10 years if your Very lucky. Then you have to charge them all up to the max each time. Not practical...

Hi, sorry, bit late, didnt realise you had posted this.. My setup is unique as i did the lot myself (diy), which is very unusual. Atm its producing about 3/4 of my daily usage, and the rest i pull from the grid at cheap rate and store in my battery banks to use in the day, so never have to...

Its just their standard economy 7 tariff, paying by direct debit. About 54p peak rate though, but i dont use any peak rate power myself due to having plenty of diy battery storage. Dont think its for exporting, but you can use another company to export to if you need to do that..

Whats the reason rcds are not usually placed on the grid supply to the inverter binky (im talking about non grid tie, ive never had experience with grid tie)? Mine is not on a shared circuit, but i put one there anyway just incase i cut through the cable or something silly lol. Its only ever...

I should imagine a 4mm armoured cable would be ok to power the inverter, (4mm should be good for 6kw) but depends on how many kw your inverter is.. Mines a 3kw and has a 4mm armoured supplying it which is plenty big enough. You may find that the inv draws a constant draw from the grid when its...

Edf is 7p off peak. 39p standing charge.

I think my inverter has temporary earth/nuetral bonding when grid power is supplied, but i forget now tbh, the post you are referring to will tell you all i know about that! These all in one inverters (non grid tie) supposedly should not have an rcd on the incoming grid supply. I have one, and...

I used these to bolt the panels to the shed roof: (cheapest way i could find) works well: https://amzn.eu/d/3rh3xTy Then used a ground wire from the metal shed to an earth rod that goes about 1 meter deep. I then used another earth rod about 3m away from the other earth rod to ground the ac...

I wouldnt trust live chat, they told me the wrong thing after them telling me to talk to the sales team. Dont think they have a clue. Sales team direct number: 0345 206 8777 They answered straight away

I have a gen2 smart meter installed october, not sure if thats a smets2 or not? My old meter was economy 7. The woman on the phone said something about if the meter has 02 on the end then you cant have the tariff. She checked my address and confirmed that i do unfortunately.