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@sheriff-fatman Good luck with the heat pump installation. That's exciting! What heat pump have you gone for? Please keep us posted on your heat pump ...
@sheriff-fatman Have you gone any further with your journey to add more storage? Is it possible to keep your existing battery setup and then add a new...
@sheriff-fatman We recently added a second Growatt 6.5 kWh battery to our bank. The installer was able to take the VAT from the battery price when the...
@allyfish That's impressive. We are on a similar journey, we are almost all electric with heat pump and an EV. We still have the gas hob that needs re...
@allyfish Thanks, that's good to hear from other Growatt owners that this behaviour is expected. On adding the second battery, yes absolutely no brain...
@judith I assume Growatt is doing the soft finish as well. Just that the effects can be seen more clearly with a bigger battery capacity. The app sh...
The second 6.5 kWh Growatt battery was installed today. The process was straightforward. The GBLI6532 model has been discontinued by Growatt, but the ...
@bontwoody Hope this is legible
@bontwoody I watched a video on Tim & Kat's Green Walk's YouTube channel yesterday on this same topic. Tim has a detailed spreadsheet to help calc...
@bontwoody I am just looking into adding another 6.5 kWh battery to our system. We were on Octopus Cosy after we installed the heat pump towards end o...
@toodles That's my idea as well. We don't have a compatible EV charger or the battery, so Go is the main option. But, from my analysis of last year us...
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