Recent content by aesmith

By the way what size of battery do you intend? At first glance having a system without export capability would be a massive waste, for example over 12 months we exported over 60% of our generation. In Summer if prioritising battery charge over export (system default) the battery would be fully...

My understanding is the limit, which our DNO referred to as "total installed capacity" is because export regulation is imperfect. From memory the G100 only requires response with seconds. So they need to take into account the effect of that total power, should it be briefly exporting or should...

No, mine just started off with everything zero. I just recorded a closing reading from the old meter.

I had a few glitches but nothing like that! I already had a smart meter. Solar was commissioned 31st May 2024, I believe the export tariff was in place by 14th June, but Octopus messed around and I made enough a fuss that they credited me for export right from the very start. Then I had smart...

I'm on Go as well. For me green is night rate. You may not have had a bill yet, but when you do it should give a breakdown of each day ..

Going back to the original question, what is a suitable meter if a smart meter can't be fitted? The answer's going to depend on why not. If there are physical reasons, not enough space for example, it's going to be the property owner's responsibility to resolve these. If the reason is that...

"Intelligent Octopus Go" requires an EV or charger that they can control. "Octopus Go" doesn’t. Reason for asking about how you control the system is that I what you were referring to, charge the battery only to a given percentage. That's needed in our case as the system is well oversized, so...

If you're on Octopus Go for import, you still get the standard Outgoing Fixed export @15p. The "gotcha" with Go is that the terms and conditions state you're only eligible if you own an EV. Although they don't actually check, nor do you actually tick a box saying that you do. As an...

I fitted the replacement on Monday afternoon. As well as now giving me a proper Net reading it also shows how wildly optimistic the figures from the inverter are, even without charging from the grid. App give production from yesterday plus today up to 12:00 as 7.95kWh. Actual metered export 5.9...

Without seeing wiring diagram, normally Switched Live would come from the stat, switching the fan on/off as appropriate. The fan will always run when this is On. Permanent Live would support run on, allowing the fan to choose to run even when Switched Live is Off.

Thanks, the answer from Emlite is that it's not possible for me to change the configuration. They've recommended replaceme to with the Import/Export/Net variant. (In fact they said that it's mandatory and the installer should have fitted that model, but I think that really refers to batteries...

Back to meters this is what the data sheet for our existing meter says .. "The meter provides measurement of active (kWh) energy in both import and export directions with registers shown on the large easy to read LCD display. The display features 8×3.5mm characters and can be configured to auto...

I'm not sure why it's hard to believe when I say the Solaredge app doesn't give accurate figures but here's an example. On that day we actually imported near to 19kW as I charged the battery overnight to ride out the price spike the following day. You can see it's registered only the import...

Most of my "knowledge" of data cabling came from working for a Systimax installer, so I may well be remembering things that were a requirement for a certified and thus warranted installation but not necessarily legal requirements. With that qualification the reason was that data cable insulation...

Thanks. It's Solaredge and unfortunately it gets it's figures hopelessly confused by the battery, particularly if the battery is ever charged from the grid when both the meter and Solaredge count battery discharge as if it was solar production. If I don’t do so then the meter gives a correct...