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Joeboy
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Re: February

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openspaceman wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:27 pm It looks like my new panels will exceed 4.5kWh today, bettering the previous 4.09kWh 15days ago. The main array is at 6.2kWh with about 90 minutes of daylight to go.

This is when I regret only having 6.5kWh battery
7kWh PV in here today, mostly due to tree shading but thats ok. Nice to see these upward ticks, great to be on a rising trend again.
OSM, I feel for you, having limited battery storage is a pita and frustrating. Could do a lot worse than look into the LF280's as an expansion path?

Day 3 for no gch for Lower floor and HWT gas has been off for about 10 days I think.
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Re: February

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Joeboy wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:25 pm
Bugtownboy wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:18 pm Nowty will have memories of these cliffs :shock:


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Just watched a Monarch butterfly float past the terrace. Lovely.
Excellent, happy hols pal!
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Re: February

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Joeboy wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:55 pm
OSM, I feel for you, having limited battery storage is a pita and frustrating. Could do a lot worse than look into the LF280's as an expansion path?
I don't want to get too cocky, having just got the second string and charger working, but yes I do like the idea of assembling a 16 cell LF280 battery with cell protection but it will have to be at the other side of the house where I have a bit of utility space.

The only reason the current battery and inverter are not there is that the supplier insisted they were close to the consumer unit and the current transformer cables could not be lengthened (or cut).

As I now have permission from DNO for 5.6kW generation capacity I just need to know what my options are, without upsetting my FIT
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Re: February

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openspaceman wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:50 pm
Joeboy wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:55 pm
OSM, I feel for you, having limited battery storage is a pita and frustrating. Could do a lot worse than look into the LF280's as an expansion path?
I don't want to get too cocky, having just got the second string and charger working, but yes I do like the idea of assembling a 16 cell LF280 battery with cell protection but it will have to be at the other side of the house where I have a bit of utility space.

The only reason the current battery and inverter are not there is that the supplier insisted they were close to the consumer unit and the current transformer cables could not be lengthened (or cut).

As I now have permission from DNO for 5.6kW generation capacity I just need to know what my options are, without upsetting my FIT
Sticking to the DC side you won't touch or affect the fit. Reading the above your worst thing is voltage drop over distance, that might cost a few quid extra in cable diameter. You'll want to know the make up of the current battery packs (what cells/how many, their operating voltages). It was only when I went up from 14kWh battery storage to 28kWh that the mental of 'oh no, how much gave we got left' loosened.
19.7kW PV SE, VI, HM, EN & DW
Ripple 7kW WT & Gen to date 19MWh
42kWh LFPO4 storage
95kWh Heater storage
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Re: February

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Joeboy wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:55 pm
openspaceman wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:27 pm It looks like my new panels will exceed 4.5kWh today, bettering the previous 4.09kWh 15days ago. The main array is at 6.2kWh with about 90 minutes of daylight to go.

This is when I regret only having 6.5kWh battery
7kWh PV in here today, mostly due to tree shading but thats ok. Nice to see these upward ticks, great to be on a rising trend again.
OSM, I feel for you, having limited battery storage is a pita and frustrating. Could do a lot worse than look into the LF280's as an expansion path?

Day 3 for no gch for Lower floor and HWT gas has been off for about 10 days I think.
6.83 kWh here, best day of the year so far and a bit cloudy at peak generation, so hopefully tomorrow will be better
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Re: February

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A nice 11kWh today for us, and we don't start getting decent sun from the shading until well after 11am.


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I assume it's deliberate that embedded images now the same tiny unviewable size whatever setting chosen?

*Edit, hmm I tried the magic 800x600 and preview still showed the image as a thumbnail. :cry:
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Re: February

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AlBargey wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:49 pm A nice 11kWh today for us, and we don't start getting decent sun from the shading until well after 11am.


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I assume it's deliberate that embedded images now the same tiny unviewable size whatever setting chosen?
I set mine to 800x600 (15 inch-monitor) and get this with your image.
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Or max with 1600x1200 (21 inch-monitor)
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Re: February

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nowty wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:10 pm
I set mine to 800x600 (15 inch-monitor) and get this with your image.
Postimg doesn't like me anymore then? mine was also set to 800x600 and I tried above..
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Re: February

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25kwh from yesterday, even sent 2.4 to the grid! :evil:

Car will not play nicely with the zappi in eco+ at the moment, not sure why!
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Re: February

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Although the weather here has been generally brilliant, we did have an interesting Saturday.

Some images from YT

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