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Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread

Mars · 2026-04-04T15:01:25Z

There's some big news for UK solar and home-energy enthusiasts... we’ve just taken delivery of the very first Indevolt Powerflex 2000 Hybrid complete with the PFA 2000 battery expansion pack right here in Britain, ahead of the official summer rollout. This is a true plug-and-play system. It simply plugs into a standard UK 13A wall socket, no complicated wiring, no electrician required. You can even add a cheap smart meter clamp to automatically charge it from excess PV production. The modular expandable design looks like it could finally make home battery storage simple, scalable and genuinely accessible for normal UK homes. I’m gearing up to run full real-world testing and a detailed review over the next few weeks: performance numbers, actual bill savings, backup capability and a complete step-by-step guide on how to install it safely and fully in line with current (and updated) UK regulations. In the meantime, this thread is now open as the dedicated UK support & information hub for the Indevolt battery range. Got questions about: Compatibility with your existing solar setup? UK regs and G99/DNO notifications? Expansion options? Smart integration, app features or anything else? Fire away below! I’ll be sharing my hands-on insights, takeaways and any early findings as I go. Looking forward to your questions so drop them here and let’s get the conversation started! Full video review coming before the end of April 2026. Wow, that is a big YouTube embed!

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04/06/2026 7:07 pm

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what if I configured it to charge as much as it could during the cheap tariff period (00:30 to 05:30) in winter and switch to charging by day in summer.?

That tells me your highest priority is cost per kWh, rather than "being green" for example.

Charging a storage battery in the small hours of the morning means that you'll predominately be using electricity generated by a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant.

When a CCGT starts up, it's basically a jet-engine with an exhaust running at over 1000°C.
It takes a few hours before that exhaust heat has raised the temperature in a boiler to a sufficiently high temperature and pressure to rotate the turbine in the 2nd stage of generation.

Once the plant moves from Open-cycle to Combined-cycle the efficiency will increase to about 50%. That's not great, but it's cheaper than throwing wasted heat into the atmosphere.

CCGT managers therefore wish to keep operating in Combined Cycle mode throughout the night. To do so they lower the price to something very small, possibly even operating at a loss. But at least they're supplying electricity which might otherwise have been generated by an offshore wind farm.

As you can imagine, the Cheap-Rate overnight period isn't going to be with us for much longer.

It's not going to pass anyone's idea of Net Zero.

Do you have an inherent objection to installing a hybrid inverter and storage battery on L2 in addition to the Powerwall on L1?

That could use a CT clamp to provide Zero Export to grid, whilst still allowing the battery to be charged using what's being generated from your solar panels.

Whats the model of 3ph inverter which you already have?

Save energy... recycle electrons!

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