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

Thank you for sharing. This communication from battery to inverter uses the pylontech protocol, that is seen as a reference in BMS to inverter comms. ...

3 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Worth adding that, for this tariff, the Octopus app has some decent UI and controls. In general, when taking up a device specific tariff, your supp...

4 days ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

ermm.. I do not have a monopoly on helping others to save money...  

4 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Insulating a pitched roof with kingspan, has anyone done it?

One thing to be aware is to ensure the eaves are not blocked, to avoid mould, etc. Better, check how your roof design ensures ventilation.

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

Good to know. In the Solis, the soc can be used to set reserve battery levels. Also when to charge and with what max rate, which I use to try to ha...

4 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

aliexpress seems to have even better options. Personally I only used it for lower value items and had no issues.

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

Please post new links, it will help others. The ones I posted are business sellers. Ebay keeps the links available until the stock sells. Sometimes...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

I had heard the same. Perhaps it was an initial requirement the DNOs insisted on (some apparently even claim that an earth connection is not part of t...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

Fogstar sell ready made kits for over £2k. The ebay links I shared are ready made batteries from the UK for £1k. They have been beaten already in th...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@swwils I agree, paying more for Frogstar does not guarantee the firmware on the BMS will work smoothly. Whenever I had issues, their answer was...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Recommended home battery inverters + regulatory matters - help requested

It makes sense to try to have a single consumer unit. One thing to consider you are looking to have circuits running during mains failure, is that tha...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

I am now considering adding a second battery to my setup. The Solis has a RS485 Port Connection. They say "if a 3rd party external device or contro...

5 days ago
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Energy Storage
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