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by FlyingScot
Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: App for Smart Meter
Replies: 12
Views: 2462

Re: App for Smart Meter

nowty wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:41 pm In case you don't know where to look for the Octopus Mini.
https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-home-mini/
thanks - applied as my home display is lovely but fairly useless

be nice if it works with Alexa

David
by FlyingScot
Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: HELP PLEASE
Replies: 16
Views: 1387

Re: HELP PLEASE

Dug up some of the e-mail correspondence from March this year. My questions/approach were carefully worded to ensure that a positive reply from them would cover my back, especially if I got a nice yes, but it was in any way ambiguous: Hi, I wanted to check some info about a change to my PV setup. I...
by FlyingScot
Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: App for Smart Meter
Replies: 12
Views: 2462

App for Smart Meter

I have a new style Octopus smart meter and rather than getting down on my knees and playing with the buttons on the smart meter I am wondering is there an app for connecting to my smart meter to see energy used AND energy being exported It is the exported energy that I am more interested in observin...
by FlyingScot
Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: HELP PLEASE
Replies: 16
Views: 1387

Re: HELP PLEASE

SNIP The rules on FiT “generation” equipment swap-out mellowed about 18 months ago. If you leave as is you cant be criticised in any way even though they are really only interested in a FiT capacity increase. A year ago I replaced 16 x 250W panels with 10 x 400W panels on my FiT system. You may ask...
by FlyingScot
Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: HELP PLEASE
Replies: 16
Views: 1387

Re: HELP PLEASE

SNIP. My battery storage is AC coupled, I use Lux units with Pylontechs supplemented by Chinese stacks inspired from here. SNIP Hope these comments help. Rob Do please tell me more - AC coupled is that what I was thinking of doing by hanging on a Victron Multiplus II to both charge and export the e...
by FlyingScot
Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: HELP PLEASE
Replies: 16
Views: 1387

Re: HELP PLEASE

SNIP The rules on FiT “generation” equipment swap-out mellowed about 18 months ago. If you leave as is you cant be criticised in any way even though they are really only interested in a FiT capacity increase. A year ago I replaced 16 x 250W panels with 10 x 400W panels on my FiT system. You may ask...
by FlyingScot
Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: HELP PLEASE
Replies: 16
Views: 1387

HELP PLEASE

I have a FIT system that is a 3.68kw Solar Edge Inverter with 15 250W panels, and Power Optimisers this was a TFU and a serious mis-selling by the cowboys who installed the system (Solis inverter that exploded after a year so was replaced with the Solar edge system {I have NO Shading issues})) as I ...