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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

@batalto - I have no objections to Luyuan or Basen. You can find Xuba here on Alibaba. Brian Chen sends me details for the ship in addition to the f...

3 years ago
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RE: Energy poverty, climate change and sustainable lifestyles

Grid export should still be considered by home-owners, especially if they operate as a community group, called an Aggregator. There are areas of the...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

A couple of other thoughts following some time to rest my brain... @batalto I've looked a bit deeper at the idea which Seplos are pursuing. I like i...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

Thanks for posting the link to the video @batalto I'm still assembling the first of my initial four LiFePO4 batteries. I did a fair amount of resear...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

I hadn't previously heard of that strategy @batalto So what you're planning is effectively a halfway point between a full DIY build and a ready-to-i...

3 years ago
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RE: Energy poverty, climate change and sustainable lifestyles

I agree. The crunch point is that it must impossible for the inverter to export to the grid. Simply installing an inverter and configuring it not to e...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

If others are considering building a battery out of the raw LiFePO4 cells, then there will need to be a lot more technical discussion here on this top...

3 years ago
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RE: Energy poverty, climate change and sustainable lifestyles

Sure. And I'm aware that those terms are used in different ways by equipment manufacturers. In this context I'm referring to the heat-pump being pow...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Energy poverty, climate change and sustainable lifestyles

And Transparent has to report that the creation of this list got sidelined. I've been distracted by the rapidly rising cost of energy and the urgent...

3 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

I've discussed this situation with the Western Power Distribution engineers who assess the grid-connection applications made by us consumers. They d...

3 years ago
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RE: Battle of the charging technologies

Thanks @Jeff and yes I do have a VW ID3. But earlier you wrote: My ID3 predates that capability. Perhaps I need to trade-up because I like the ide...

3 years ago
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RE: Anyone want to share costs on batteries?

Heat pumps take a lot of current when starting. I checked the spec of a mid-range 9kW GSHP a couple of weeks ago and it draws 29A when starting (using...

3 years ago
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