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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@transparent My conclusion is as you have noted, that the connection(s) to the cells need checking. There are a few, so one may not be seated cor...

11 months ago
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RE: My Powerwall 3 Consumes 3-4 kWh/Day in Self-Consumption: Is This Normal?

I suspect a good chunk of the "losses" are power consumption of the inverter itself. Our Solis inverter consumes somewhere between 50-100w depending...

11 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@transparent   I have 3 of these units and extensive knowledge of building them (and liaising with Fogstar), particularly around the JK Acti...

11 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred Did you build your pack, or buy it pre built?

11 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred That's right the Seplos BMS manages the pack and communicates with the Inverter. The JK active balancer I think you are referring to is ...

11 months ago
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred   Which BMS do you mean? You say you've upgraded the Seplos BMS firmware, but then go on to say JK BMS? It can't be both?

11 months ago
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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt

@jwhite   The design temp of Heat Geeks doesn't stack up to me. How can it be at 40c with no radiator changes, especially when BG are requiri...

11 months ago
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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt

@jwhite You could ask British Gas to price match Octopus, they did for me. They might quibble at the additional cost of the Vaillant unit, but ma...

11 months ago
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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

  I'll be interested to see how you get on. Are Octopus still charging for this route, or is it free now? I also don't have an MCS certificat...

11 months ago
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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@majordennisbloodnok Thanks. Yes, no problem. Where is the best place to get an image and what image would be recommended as I'd imagine there ar...

11 months ago
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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred I have a couple of old Ish small desktop Dells that won't run windows 11. I think their power draw shouldn't be too much as it'd need to...

11 months ago
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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred Thanks. What do you run your HA server on? I'd hoped I could use the Samsung tablet for this, but it seems I can only use it as a client. ...

12 months ago
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