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@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...
Now that the heating season is almost over, have any of you switched from Octopus Cosy tariff to Octopus Go yet? We are using less than 5 kWh for th...
We tested the away mode for the first time as we were away for five days for a holiday. Interestingly, the temperature dropped to about 18 degrees and...
Looks like this issue is now resolved. Aira installed a K3 radiator, with 20% more output, and now the temperature is holding steady around 19.5 degre...
I would look at it as £9.5K vs £11.5K or £15.5K instead of £2K vs £4K or £8K after excluding the BUS grant. Psychologically, that feels easier to comp...
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