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Old_Scientist
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?

I think there may be a little confusion in the wording here. When applying for a G99 to connect equipment to the grid for export, the grid is imp...

1 year ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Good argument. I have long been of the view that some of the policy costs should be shifted away from electricity and onto gas under the polluter pays...

1 year ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not local (you are not logging into a web interface on the hardware itself). It is still cloud based...

1 year ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

I have/had a basic non-hybrid FoxESS inverter. The software/App is nice enough, but the main downside for me was it's not real time - it uploads data ...

1 year ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House

We got lucky and hit gold with our installer. Rather than size radiators to a design temp, we came at it from the opposite direction of lets measure t...

1 year ago
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RE: The Battery Battle

I agree. I think a lot of it comes down to people's resistance to change, and an expectation of an experience similar to what they had before with an ...

1 year ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Where did you see that? My understanding is simply that Octopus Outgoing is no longer a fixed tariff, but is now more like a standard variable rate ...

1 year ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.

There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ridge of a roof panels can go, and if they are MCS accredited then they will have to stick to tho...

1 year ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff

I estimated our usage on the following basis. The most challenging 6h window for us is 4-10pm as it coincides with cooking/meal time (electric oven,...

1 year ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff

Agreed that Cosy works best for battery owners, and the savings do not always stack up well versus the battery costs over the 10 year warranty period ...

1 year ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.

OK, so if it were a Tesla Powerwall I'd be presenting arguments to the DNO for the full 11.04kWh inverter rating for the battery, keeping the solar on...

1 year ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff

We ran on Cosy last winter and we switched off during the peak (4-7pm) and set back over night as the house gets too hot if running constantly, even o...

1 year ago
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