Plug in solar

[ericmark]

Then get it hard wired and professionally installed. This was always an option before now anyway.

Yes exactly, the battery pack method has been available for years, I had considered DIY solar, but to fit on the roof, forget it. And on the wall, simply not big enough to be worthwhile.

To my mind it needs to be large enough to work as a package, off-peak, battery and solar.

The plug and play solar is OK as an addition to existing, but as a stand alone, with no battery, and 800 watt limit, and no export, it is next to useless. At £300 for the kit, maybe, but at £700, simply not worth it. A battery pack would give a far better return.

 

[denso13]

The plug and play solar is OK as an addition to existing, but as a stand alone, with no battery, and 800 watt limit, and no export, it is next to useless. At £300 for the kit, maybe, but at £700, simply not worth it. A battery pack would give a far better return.

Then just avoid it if it isn't for you. If someone wants one with a battery then they should get it professionally installed. The regs will develop and batteries will, I think, be introduced to the plug in kit in time. But for now, they aren't.

 

[ericmark]

If someone wants one with a battery then they should get it professionally installed.

Only required for grid tied battery.

 

[morqthana]

it`s up to the individual to calculate before buying,

Some might still rush in without calculating though and look at the adverts thru rose tinted glasses.

You think?

 

[ebee]

Certainly some folk do that, you can trick some of the people some of the time and that amounts to loadsa money so the ad industry has loadsa money.

If you look back at some things sold as the best 20,30,40 or more years ago and that every so often the made a new improved one then that must prove that a lot of the previos ones were absolute carp so surely we should all get some refunds?