Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
@transparent umm, basically, yes. I’ll do a drawing. A few shunts in there and a common dc bus, and the ac side is a bit different. no fuses, no lig...
For A2W, I'd always recommend DIY installers go for a monobloc unit. Couple of lengths of 28mm, mains power, job done. In fact, with the move to flamm...
Sure... Let me explain. I have 60a breakers on the in and out from my MPPT controller, I have a 175a breaker on my 3kW inverter/charger and I have a c...
Perhaps using my area of software development was a bad example, we’re a tiny, engineer led team of 4 so it’s very much a ‘figure it out and teach you...
There isn’t any in the embedded software industry either - doesn’t stop me learning new stuff and expanding my knowledge base so I can deliver better ...
I'm late to this thread, but for what it's worth: I run Batrium on a 16S string of 210aH LiFePo4 cells. Balancing is set to 3.45v/cell, absorption v...
A2W is still cheap, if you don't claim a stupid grant and DIY it yourself.
I'm going to blame installers... All they do is blame the manufacturers for not training them properly. Whatever happened to continuous professional d...
Found the quotes we were given, pretty sure my Boss said these were inc vat but we get the vat back obvs... This was through a broker, EC Business Ene...
At work, we're currently on 15p till March '23 - we've just signed on for a 3yr to run till march '26 @ 27p (both ex vat)
I'm tempted, but at the moment I don't have the spare capital to invest in a DIY battery storage setup at this property. I'm probably going to get the...
@kev-m mains gas. Non condensing boiler (73% efficient according to the documentation). Rads and a 120ltr cylinder.
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