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I deal with excess solar by, 1) Home battery becomes near full and the DC coupled charge controllers will simply throttle off and shut down. 2) First 4kW excess gets exported, any more excess gets diverted to pump power into storage heaters and/or hot water tank. 3) If I’m out, any further excess ge...

AGT wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 8:05 pm

Those old transformer based Sunny Boys may not be the most efficient these days but they are near bomb proof. They will likely see us all out.

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:46 pm Do i spot a dovetail joint on the bottom ?

I have a feeling this was not supposed to be a dovetail joint but a square joint. But I miscut the first piece and somehow managed to cut the second piece to match the first irregular cut.

I’m cooking dinner for my mum and what did I find in her cupboard in full operating service ?

A spice rack I made in school woodwork class.

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 8:41 pm

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:25 pm Balls in their court -annoyed by the triviallity of it all. All its achived is bad publicity and a bad taste in my mouth. No more Ripple projects for me.

Update to say Ripple have decided they do not require evidence for my consumption.
Common sense prevails........ thank you Ripple.

And for KH, I note latest news from Ripple,

Turbines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 now up and spinning
13/05/2024

We've had confirmation today from site that turbines 6 and 7 are now spinning. This means that just turbines 1 and 8 left to go.

I’m ut’ north at my mum’s and helped her buy into the Whitelaw Brae wind project. :mrgreen: She’s a very low leccy user so she managed to buy about 5 times her usage and yet stay comfortably under the 7000 kWh no evidence limit. :whistle: So although I could not buy any personally, we have combinati...

I missed them, but its an excuse to re-publish my pics from Iceland from a few years ago.

Mostly sunny, warm but quite hazy here at Nowty Towers today. Looking likely to finish the day at 76kWh, only 2 kWh away from my all time PB. More importantly, PB's were achieved by mid afternoon on both SMA Sunny Boy No3 inverter and Victron No1 charge controller confirming my Solar panel upgrades ...

I was getting about 9kW on the SMA Sunny Boys (AC coupled) and about 1.5kW on the Victron's (DC coupled). It does depend on the time of day as I have some early panels which shade off in the afternoon and afternoon panels which are slow in the morning. But with the temps increasing this week the pea...