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I like this idea. Although, I'm on a fixed 21.5p tariff until end Dec 2023. Which I understand is pretty darned good and will be even more so after an October price hike?

Interesting, many thanks. Worth looking into. On a purely cost saving basis it would take a long time to pay for it's self. But it does appear to do what I'm asking. Hopefully I'd be able to have a priority list. Solar generated power to house first, house battery next, then EV and lastly...

Absolutely it is but at the moment that's a manual process that most often empties the house battery. I'd swap the water diverter for an EV equivalent. I guess if they're available then they're not going to be cheap?

Could you expand on the free EV charging please? (Does this need its own thread?) I have Solar PV with 4.8kWh Li-Po batteries and a hot water diverter. My EV charging is only via 13A socket at present. 2015 Nissan Leaf 30kWh battery. EV takes a steady 2.6kW for hours on end, (12 if it's...

This sort of button would allow users to turn on some or all the heating and ensure it went off again. After a time set by you. https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SMDS3HD.html

I'm not a Yorkshire man but I still hate giving money away. 🤔 With being home all the time we seem to be able to use almost anything we generate. That's yet another consideration. It is what it is though, now. I certainly couldn't have done any work on the roof. I'm projecting a 7 year...

Andy, mine was just over £7K so that's a massive saving if you can do it yourself. Having said that, prices of equipment seems to be going up by the minute. (I also had quotes from large national companies for a similar price but without batteries). I will be looking at suppliers like...

My installer only charged 5% VAT.

I'm very very pleased with a Solis RHI-3.6K-48ES-5G 3.6kW Hybrid inverter fed by 4.55kWp of panels and 4.8kWh of Pylontech US2000C batteries. Because mine was installed by a MSC installer I can get payment for any power that goes back to the grid. But the best rate I could find is 5.5p/kWh...

I'd like to know why we even need one if we have a smart meter that reads export? One seems to make sense for the no longer available FIT payments where I believe there was a generation element to the payment. But new installs haven't been able to get that for ages. My installer put mine...

You may have to find a way to extend it. One thing to try, turn something on in the garage, maybe take the kettle in there. See if drawing power from somewhere after the CT works as you expect.

I'd suggest that your CT needs to be before the Henley block. So it can see everything that the smart meter is.

Andy don't forget that the Solis app shows no change at all for 5 minutes. You can refresh it all you like but there's no change to the numbers. It's possible that the panels were producing 1kw at the instant that the snapshot was taken, then maybe production was far lower for the rest of the...

You're quids in then, no need to worry about feed in at all. From late Feb to now, multiplied up to 12 months, mines looking like just over £1K a year. But that's without factoring in winter months.

That's impossible to answer as it's so very different every day. They're always empty by morning. Self use gets first dibs on generated power. If a cloud comes across and generation goes below consumption, the battery starts discharging, assuming it has some. So it's up and down all the...

I don't think you can sell it back to grid if it's self installed. But you've saved a ton of cash doing it yourself, already. One option might be a diverter to feed an immersion heater. Although that becomes less useful once you have batteries.

This has been mine today, very similar peak. Clouds are a damn nuisance in between peaks.

Haha, that'll last for months. I still do but it's getting less frequent. Shame it only takes a snapshot every 5 mins.

Looking great. Be better when that spare is going into batteries.

One other thing that can help is to turn off the phone's mobile data. Because - when the "no internet" notification comes up, some phones can drop the WiFi connection and switch to mobile data. This disconnects you from the dongle before you can set it up.