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@tim441 Working with Agile slots can be a fun game! The actual times do vary but there tends to be core times when the cheapest rates apply. The core ...
@david999 I can’t help feeling the sun has developed a shyness to my panels lately.😒
@david999 I’m attaching a screen shot of last year’s production and a detailed shot for December 23. Regards, Toodles.
@david999 I have an 8.1 kWp system consisting of 4 arrays variously orientated on house roof, a flat roof, workshop roof and ground mounted in garden....
@johnmo Yes, the Eddi powers the Sunamp starting at 04:00 and by 05:15 or so, it has ‘reached maximum temperature’ and then holds sufficient energy to...
@tim441 I follow your thinking and regard the solar energy as a negative cost of 15 pence if exported but any of that that I use is a positive cost of...
@johnmo That is a bummer.😒 We have a SMETS1 meter that was apparently ‘updated’ on-line by either EonNext or Octopus (we weren’t able to esta...
@tim441 As you say, ‘highly variable’, daily solar production for me can be 35kWh or so but…. the last week or two has seen daily production as low as...
@david999 I thought the idea was to ‘spread’ the three phases across houses in a road so that the chances are your next door neighbour is on one of th...
@transparent Groan.
I might also add that my brother was called out to farms occasionally after a grain dryer fire; as you might imagine, dust from the grain drying proce...
@derek-m Ah now… I can assist here! In the 1960’s, my brother was an apprentice electrician; we lived in Yeovil, Somerset and most of the work my brot...
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