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Hi @adamm and welcome. Just to add my experience.... We live in the Cairngorms, approx 170m2 old 4 bed detached with solid stone walls, suspended ti...
Yes, definitely planning to use it, particularly on very cold Highland evenings (which we have quite a few of). I've bought a box of long burn briquet...
Hi I had similar, until I realised I needed to set a specific 'off' schedule outside the hours I want, in your case 1600 to 1300. If you don't do th...
That's a good shout @derek-m, trouble is they are fixed on a timber frame and changing it now would be a helluva task. It never occurred to me to do t...
@dougmlancs Thanks, that's really helpful. I did have a diicussion with the supplier early doors about inverter capacity. In the end, whilst I agree...
3.6kW. I've 10kWh worth of batteries in the system as well, although they are currently not working (hardly accepting any charge) and are due to be re...
Thanks all. This is useful insight and, yes, I am in discussion with the installer about this. He in turn is chasing Solis and Puredrive. I'll post an...
Thanks for comments both. I did wonder about temperature being a cause but it's not been below zero when it's happening. Today is a good example, i...
The Solis inverter separately records whole house consumption, PV yield, imports, exports and battery storage. The 'monthly' imports figure aligns ver...
Thanks @transparent, that's helpful. I'll pursue Solis for a fix. When Puredrive came to fix the initial problem with batteries not accepting charge...
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