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@majordennisbloodnok If you have a HP for me you should have battery storage if you can, so it's not necessarily one or the other, you really shoul...
In the summer months looking at our data our batteries are discharging about 11kwh a day. In the winter they are discharging about 25kwh a day and w...
@scalextrix I'm not convinced that solar panels in the UK are a "guaranteed payback", especially with a Heat Pump. How much electricity will you ...
@vanq If you have an EV and battery storage why would you not use an EV tariff? Surely its way cheaper and more convenient?
@editor More kWh for my hard earned cash was the priority. Our 45kwh of storage should meet our HP needs and the rest of the house load, other t...
@transparent I picked up a Shelly Pro EM-50. A bit more expensive than these (which I was also looking at), but decided at £20 more was a much be...
@batpred Thanks. My firmware is the same as yours. I too have no idea why the Wifi connection won't work with the password. I wonder if I need ...
@batpred Thanks. That now makes sense. Connecting to the datalogger via Bluetooth was very straightforward and does indeed refresh more regularly. I...
@batpred Thanks. I have raised a ticket to get it changed to the lowest possible, so lets see what happens. It isn't a huge issue, but it would b...
@batpred Thanks. When connecting to the data logger via the Solis Cloud app there is very little information to see. There is just an RSSI graph ...
@johnnyb That's good to hear. I am very interested in how you have connected to the data logger direct via WiFi to get the polling data every 5 s...
@johnnyb This is ours and is very similar for most days. Ours imports only around 20w and hour maximum when running off the battery. Our invert...
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