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    Job opportunity

    I've found myself in a situation where I'm not sure which is the best route and after being a member of this forum for a while I'm hopefully going to get some decent advise. I've been property developing for several years and due to the current climate I've decided to walk away and choose a...
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    Photocell sensor

    Hey gents. I'm looking for a photocell sensor to run some led decking lights I'm fitting into my extension soffit. Any brand recommendations
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    Outside electric feed

    The electric mains comes into my semi detached house along the rear of the property from my neighbour house. Approx 2.4mt high from ground level.. I'm in the process of building a rear extension and was wondering what to do regards the cable. Should I just bury it in the plaster? Trunk it to...
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    Are these batten lights useless?

    There's a local eBay listing selling a wholesale lot of batten lights. 5ft and 6ft. 62 in total. Various brands. I was wondering if they are able to accept led tubes? List below Fitzgerald pdp158/hf/x 1x 58w non corro 5ft x16 Fitzgerald pdp270/hf/x 2x 70w non corro 6ft x2 Fitzgerald...
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    solis app readings

    since ive installed my batterys the solis app no longer shows self use (2nd image) i get the total yield in the first image top left. could it be i need a software update or is their a setting in the inverter that needs tweeking
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    Purchasing a house with solar

    Ive just been to view another property for my portfolio. When I got there the first thing I noticed was solar panels on the roof. I've never purchased a property with solar installed and have learned from this forum that it can be fitted on a lease. I've contacted the estate agent and asked...
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    Ideal temp for pylontech batterys

    I've just been reading a few threads and something I totally overlooked when installing my battery's was running temperature. I've installed my battery's in my garage at the side of the inverter. Whilst I don't have a temp guage near the battery's I have the internal temp guage in the inverter...
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    Solar panels Vs battery only

    I was wondering if anyone has done a cost comparison for battery only, solar only, and solar & battery. I'm not meaning short term but over a longer period. Eg 5- 10 years. I can only go from my setup and during the winter I'm leaning towards battery only setup using a cheap rate tariff And...
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    Sale offer on pylontech battery's

    I don't have any connection to the company though since I've just received an email I thoughts I would share incase anyone is contemplated purchasing one. ITS Technologies is offering 4% discount off the below products for orders paid for in full by 27th Dec for deliveries in January. Discount...
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    PIV units

    Since I've fitted solar panels and storage battery's I've been doing other things to my property to improve the efficiency I had the old wool type insulation removed from the cavity and installed the new bead system. I've fitted smart TRV to the rads and added an additional 150mm loft...
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    Y app readings compared with the smart meter

    I've never really noticed this and I'm a little confused. Plus I've just changed to octopus from EDF so I'm not sure if this is a new thing I've just looked at the readings from the solar app. It says I've used 7kwh of electricity. 3kw imported from grid and 4kw from the battery's. When...
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    Setting my Solis inverter to charge at certain time

    I'm in the process of switching to octopus go. My enquiry is regards setting the inverter to charge between the low rate hours 1230am-430am. Inverter is solis RHI-5g 3.6kw hybrid I've looked through the manual and the only page I can see is the one below. Is it just a case of setting the...
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    Anyone on octopus go

    I'm switching over to octopus tonight. I've noticed that they do a referral offer where if an existing customers has an account they can refer you and they get £50 and I would get £50. If anyone is interested please pm me with the referral link please.
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    Pylontech dod

    My Solis inverter have a factory set battery discharge down to 20%. The pylontech us2000 spec say they can go down to 10%. Is it possible to change the setting or is it factory set for a reason
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    Problem after connecting batterys. AC Overcurrent.

    Hi all. I've received the leads today to connect the pylontec battery's to my solis 5g hybrid inverter. Batters went in ok. When I fired them up the green lights came on slow flashing which the Manual said stand by mode. I went into the advanced setting and activated the battery's as it...
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    Using a EV to run your house

    Ive seen a few posts suggesting that a EV can be used to run the electricity in your home Can someone enlighten me how this could work and of any alterations need to be down to make this work
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    2 question regard DNO and inverter

    Question 1 is. Why does the DNO only allow 3.6kw feed back to the grid. Surely if folks fitted larger setups they would benefit from cheap leccy Question 2. Just looking at my Solis 3.6 hybrid inverter which is located in my garage. The internal temperature is 51.4 degree. Is this running...
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    Solar in power cut

    Is there a way to make my solar keep work in a power outage. New battery's arrive later this month We have had 5 power cuts this week though 3 were after dark
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    EV charger

    In the coming months/years I will be considering buying a electric van. My AVG milage over the past 5 years is around 10k. Do electric vans make sense or are they not advanced enough and my main question is are zappi chargers the ones to go for or is there a better alternative
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    Solis inverter readout

    I've never noticed before though this morning I clicked to see what we were generating It was cloudy and On the screen it said (approx) producing 1.1kw. back to grid was 0.6kw. House was using the test. Then the sun came out. The screen said producing 3.7kw. 2.2kw back to grid house was...
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