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Thanks Johnb2713. I'll have a look at that.

The only downside I've found so far is that when Octopus choose to charge your car outside of the 23.30 to 05.30 cheap period, it quickly draws down from my Growatt solar batteries. This results in me having no solar battery power to run my house if the sun is not shining during the day. I've...

You are not obliged to claim your Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) payments from your electricity supplier. You can go with any company for this. I too have Octopus Go, but I export through British Gas as they give a slightly larger SEG payment of 6.4p/kwh. You can also change SEG buyer at anytime...

Below is my SPH5000 set up from the Shinephone internet version, not the phone app. The only thing I have changed from how it was set up by my installer is the 'Battery First' section. Let me know if need to know how to access these settings in the internet version and send you instructions...

I also wanted to charge my batteries from cheap overnight electricity and followed John's advice from many weeks ago on setting this up. It worked and I've selectively charged my batteries overnight to 90%, 70% and 50% depending on what I thought the weather the next day would be. So in my case...

I think you'll find that you'll have to pay more for your cheap electricity than you can sell it back for. Or at least there will be such a small margin in it that it would take decades to recoup your outlay cost. In the last year we averaged 13 kwh/day usage in our house, but I do have an...

Hi John, I've followed your instructions as shown, put in the password as described at the end. When I go out and come back to check, I see that the radio button 'Power Harvester' is selected (in blue), although the off-peak information I put in is still there. My questions are: 1. Does it...

Hi, I've recently had a solar system installed that has a Growatt SPH 5000 Inverter and 2 x 3.3 kwh batteries and look forward to finding some interesting tips. I hope in time, to be able to contribute with some useful information.