Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Green Renewable Energy Forum
Solar PV Forum
DIY solar battery storage help
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support Talk Electrician Forum:
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 527900" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>Currently it's more a case of buying what you can find, demand has outsripped many supplies, and China is currently locking down for Covid, so that should firk things up! </p><p></p><p>Legally you can install the solar yourself and all the DC side, you will need a new AC circuit, so that's notifiable work under Part P of building regs, for which it's easier to get an electrician who can sign off the work.</p><p></p><p>There's also a legal requirement to notify your DNO, if you want to go over 16A or 3.6 Kw, then I would notify in advance of installing. You can install inverters with export limitation to meet 16A requirement, but often they will aloow more anyway. You can do this yourself as well. Fit a hybrid inverter, they treat that as a single issue, if you install separate solar and battery systems (known as AC batteries) they can get very shirty about having 2 potential backfeeds to the grid, even if they are export limited.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 527900, member: 490"] Currently it's more a case of buying what you can find, demand has outsripped many supplies, and China is currently locking down for Covid, so that should firk things up! Legally you can install the solar yourself and all the DC side, you will need a new AC circuit, so that's notifiable work under Part P of building regs, for which it's easier to get an electrician who can sign off the work. There's also a legal requirement to notify your DNO, if you want to go over 16A or 3.6 Kw, then I would notify in advance of installing. You can install inverters with export limitation to meet 16A requirement, but often they will aloow more anyway. You can do this yourself as well. Fit a hybrid inverter, they treat that as a single issue, if you install separate solar and battery systems (known as AC batteries) they can get very shirty about having 2 potential backfeeds to the grid, even if they are export limited. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Green Renewable Energy Forum
Solar PV Forum
DIY solar battery storage help
Top