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Storage battery capacity and size of inverter(s). Apart from cost, the factor most likely to dictate the battery capacity required by a home is suff...
Battery enclosures: The majority of storage batteries installed in UK are LiFePO4, operate at 52v nominal and have a capacity of 4-5kWh.Each box has...
Wow! Please slow down @jamespa and @bontwoody - You're opening far too many issues at once! I can provide the technical background, together with ty...
News Flash. On another topic a few months ago, I was asked why I use such a mix of MCB trips from different manufacturers: And here's the answer...
I need a few hours to consider what you've just posted @korwraithand what EDF mean when they write "the change has only just been made" I should let...
The anti-vibration mounts being referred to on a checklist could be heavy rubber 'feet' beneath the outside unit.Building Regs Part-L puts the onus on...
By all means, keep musing away!Adding a second Huawei Luna is more expensive in terms of £s per kWh. I was never able to provide an adequate ans...
Hmm; well that's a fairly consistent approach. The installers seem to have screwed both the lockshieldsand their customer ...
Yes. But when using batteries in parallel, you usually try to have them of the same capacity.The Huawei Luna battery is much smaller than any which yo...
The SunSynk 5kW unit gives you more kW per £ than the 3.6kW you linked to. I was suggesting a DIY wind-turbine rather than off-the-shelf.If you have...
No. You need two inverters to incorporate the 2.66kW array.Each inverter will have two MPPT inputs. That still gives you one 'spare' input for renew...
Ah yes. I'd forgotten the East/West split.So you will require two MPPT inputs for that arrangement. The Huawei Luna 2000 has a particularly low mini...
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