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- Mon Jun 24, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Renovations
- Topic: Possibly a bonkers idea - cavity wall insulation
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1255
Re: Possibly a bonkers idea - cavity wall insulation
i would only put EWI on a solid wall. Otherwise you still have air movement within the wall negating the insulation effect. A rebuilt outer leaf with PIR would be ok as long as the PIR was very snug, foamed between each sheet etc. otherwise you still have the same problem - air movement around or up...
- Sun May 26, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Outgoing Octopus
- Replies: 142
- Views: 25122
Re: Outgoing Octopus
Hi nowty,
Very impressive.
I am interested to know how you are managing the export.
Are you exporting from the Sunny Island or the ME3000SP? Do you have to manually keep adjusting it through the day?
Very impressive.
I am interested to know how you are managing the export.
Are you exporting from the Sunny Island or the ME3000SP? Do you have to manually keep adjusting it through the day?
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: 3 Phase - various questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 929
Re: 3 Phase - various questions
Q1 - There are a number of 3-phase inverter/chargers around now - Sunsynk springs to mind. https://www.bimblesolar.com/sunsynk-three-phase It can also be done with 3x single phase units connected to one battery stack (but you will need 3x battery communication outputs - easy when you have loads of b...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
- Replies: 5
- Views: 647
Re: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
Thanks Kommando - very helpful. Lots of fun to be had playing with this.. I have turned on Modbus via the installer login on the SI. I don't think it can be done via the Sunny Portal. Modbus Mechanic is giving me results via slave node 3 - I could not find a parameter on the Installer login on the S...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
- Replies: 5
- Views: 647
Re: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
SI8.0H-13.
3 actually as a 3-phase group.
3 actually as a 3-phase group.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
- Replies: 5
- Views: 647
Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
Hi All, I have switched out my Sofar ME3000SP inverter-chargers for Sunny Island 8.0H. I am using the system for self-consumption without battery backup and fully charge the Pylontech batteries overnight in the cheapslot. However, now we are in February, the PV means the batteries are typically not ...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: 2nd hand EV as a company car?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1047
Re: 2nd hand EV as a company car?
Company accountant says: Vat is not reclaimable on any cars to be provided as company cars. It's also almost never charged on sale of 2nd hand cars, so there's no loss of vat. The capital allowance side is 18% per year reducing balance, so 18% of price paid in year one, then 18% of 82% year two. In ...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: 2nd hand EV as a company car?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1047
Re: 2nd hand EV as a company car?
Lower cost for you, but the BIK for the employee is based on the new price of the car plus accessories, all at new list price. I have always seen this as a lever the motor trade applied to business (via government legislation) to ensure company cars were bought new. There is also the Octopus leasing...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: Sunny Home Manager 3-phase with external CTs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2257
Re: Sunny Home Manager 3-phase with external CTs
Aagghh. RTFM.
Thanks Timbum.
Much higher secondary current than the CTs I have. 20:1 instead of 2500:1
Need to rethink some stuff as I can't run 5A down 50m of twisted pair. (Not that I was anyway with 3-phase potential on the wires
).
Thanks Timbum.
Much higher secondary current than the CTs I have. 20:1 instead of 2500:1
Need to rethink some stuff as I can't run 5A down 50m of twisted pair. (Not that I was anyway with 3-phase potential on the wires
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- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: Sunny Home Manager 3-phase with external CTs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2257
Sunny Home Manager 3-phase with external CTs
Hi All, I have decided to switch to an SMA based system. The first step is to install a Sunny Home Manager 2.0 which will monitor the grid import/export and deal with the export limitation of some new Sunny Boy inverters. I installed the Home Manager last week but have been having trouble with the e...