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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

  This is why I gave up on the idea of islanding quite quickly. The final straw was potentially having to install an 8ft earth rod in my drivew...

4 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred In all fairness you haven't provided any help at all, just links to some unknown and untested batteries from a random eBay account. It w...

4 months ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures

@transparent Although we don't export, we were offered 6kw (around 25A) export on our application with UKPN. I suspect there may be some "local" ...

4 months ago
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

It's not actually essential that your inverter and batteries have communication. Ours will run happily with the communication cables removed. The BM...

4 months ago
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

  The earthing requirement (to protect the engineers who may need to work on the supply when there is a power cut) is not provided by the inver...

4 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred It's a shame you haven't bought any of these cheap batteries so that we could find out some more information about them. Hopefully you w...

4 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@swwils Definitely for the money I think Fogstar are almost impossible to beat in the UK, certainly without taking an unnecessary risks for a (pote...

4 months ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures

@transparent Thanks. A double pole RCBO was installed in readiness for our installation. Thankfully we had an excellent electrician who installed...

4 months ago
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

@jamespa If you get your CU upgraded perhaps ask the electrician to run an appropriate isolator on its own circuit to where your batteries will be ...

4 months ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures

@transparent Thanks. It's definitely safe, all according to 18th edition regulations.

4 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@swwils I'd absolutely use Fogstar again, their service for me was exemplary. I did the numbers and there is very little in it financially to try...

4 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

This is very true and a slight annoyance that I have found, although removing one of the data cables resolves this issue temporarily. Once I had "ti...

4 months ago
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