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@jamespa Mine is outside at the moment but I will be moving it indoors. The sea air is hard on it :-). I believe the LiFePO4 are much less likely to c...
@jamespa You are in a similar situation to me James, although I am a little further down the line having installed a small 5 kWh battery. What I ...
@transparent A new luna battery would be more expensive (£s/kWh) but if I could pick up a second hand one at a good price, it would mean I wouldnt nee...
@transparent I was musing that if I managed to get a cheap used Luna module I could just change the inverters to get both arrays charging the batte...
@transparent So my thinking was that the new inverter needed to be 3.68 kW to satisfy the DNO, but I guess if the SunSynk can be limited to whatever t...
@transparent so two of these might do :-)/p> Actually I was looking at a wind turbine before an extra battery but discounted it after looking at the...
@transparent OK, so am I actually going to need 3 inverters to achieve the charging of the battery from both arrays? Do you have any suggestions about...
@bretiix Some heatpumps (eg Samsung) can control the pump speed automatically via something called pulse width modulation. Im not sure if any other ma...
@transparent Yet another thing I forgot to mention 😁. The new panels are split 50:50 on East and West roofs Im away from home at the mome...
@transparent So doing a bit of further research, Ive come up with these options: 1. Add extra module to Huawei system, cost £2200, result 10 kWh 2...
@transparent LOL kV...Sorry Im reverting back to radiography mode! I do know the difference ...honest 🙂 No one has ever suggested that possibili...
@transparent OK, thats clear. I didnt pay a lot of attention to the details but I knew it was to prevent export from both the panels and the battery a...
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