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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Erm... that CT clamp is an input to the MP 3000-SE (Sofar's battery storage controller) rather than the pre-existing PV inverter.According to the manu...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

At a nominal 50v battery voltage, you would expect a 5kW inverter to draw 100A max.But that assumes the current is steady. In reality, most loads will...

2 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

I too don't like the look of that breaker on the Battery wires. We discussed adequately-sized DC breakers earlier on this topic. You can buy them on e...

2 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Having seen the photos, I too have a plethora of questions! Why is the red/yellow "emergency breaker" placed so high up and to the right?This is w...

2 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

I agree with @chickenbig that we need more information on what's connected to the underside of the 3000-SE unit. Another photo perhaps? There also a...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Simply swapping around CT clamps doesn't appeal to me as a logical approach! Assuming that your solar installation and its grid-tied inverter preced...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Those last three photos don't show an 8kW shower in use. They show 1.6kW being used within the home, which is coincidentally matched by the electric...

2 years ago
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RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables

There's got to be a joke in there somewhere @morgan, but I can't work out if Givenergy is the punchline 🤨 ... alternatively, start a new topic with...

2 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Thanks @misterb. I usually reduce the resolution of a photo to about 800 pixels horizontally before uploading to this forum.Do you have an image edito...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Hi @misterb - we're going to need a bit more than that to help us understand the issue. Firstly, a set of 280Ah cells should be capable of 'feeding'...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

I don't understand how Octopus could not have checked your area first. It's that check which allows DCC to specify the Communications Hub which is sup...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables

And do we remember the inventor, Harold Bate? In the late 1960's he developed a system to create methane from chicken poop, on which he ran his ca...

2 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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