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In case @editor is worried about there being a surge of queries to this Forum once Amazon, Lidl, Ikea and others start shipping plug-in solar and plug...
Aaagh! You shouldn't have your inverters wired so as to allow that to occur. The very fact that you're even considering it tells us the sort of 'm...
An earth bond to the aluminium frame is required if the solar panels can be touched. So that would apply if they were on a main house roof, for exam...
Oh woe! 1: I've just read the Solis Inverter specs and Installation Manual for a S6-GR1P3K. I think you have a typo because I can't find a ...
Well those are "MC4" plugs and sockets. Yes the ones on the left do indeed look different to those on the right. But one's the male half and the oth...
Hah! Well I guess we're all in the realm of conjecture. Perhaps "Consumption Mode" is a mechanism which requires input from another device, such ...
There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on panel positioning. You refer to the roof having a low point, which suggests it's sloping.We al...
We just posted simultaneously. If the boxes are to be bolted down, then they're going to need 100kg of ballast in addition. Simply put large washe...
Since you're positioning the boxes directly above joists, and then screwing them down, I can't see any reason why you'd need to position them further ...
Wonderful! And have the authors of the Warm Home Plan found a way for those in energy poverty to fit a heat pump do we think?Where do they get the r...
That's useful. Thanks @jamespa Can I use that quotation when I next hold an energy seminar in the fuel-poverty areas of North Cornwall and Devon? &...
Government has just published its Final Report on a Review of Ofgem from a public consultation launched in Dec'24. The original Call for Evidence is...
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