Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

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Just looked on city plumbing again - longi 535W panels are now just £88 each!
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nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 3:45 pm Damn those cheap panels at City Plumbing with free delivery, I don't want any more honest. ;)

But they could replace 4 on my front porch sitting on prime SSW facing real estate. Then those existing 4 could replace the non matching silver frame ones on my decking area which were originally on the front porch to start off with. :lol:

These are the last ones, honest. :xx:

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Looks good Nowty, can I ask the panel price? Mind and update the list. :D
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Joeboy wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 6:57 pm
nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 3:45 pm
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Looks good Nowty, can I ask the panel price? Mind and update the list. :D
I'm guessing £63.17 each or four for £252.68. :whistle:
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Fintray wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 8:36 pm
Joeboy wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 6:57 pm
nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 3:45 pm
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Looks good Nowty, can I ask the panel price? Mind and update the list. :D
I'm guessing £63.17 each or four for £252.68. :whistle:
Now look here, my scrolling thumb needed recharged! :oops: :lol:
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:D
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They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance.
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nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:17 pm They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance.
I don't actually know how they do it. My single panel was strapped to a long pallet. Very much.on.its own and the guys at the depot behaved as if it was the first they'd seen? I'm surmising it's a loss leader. I don't know any other mobs that are doing it at this price point?
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Joeboy wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:21 pm
nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:17 pm They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance.
I don't actually know how they do it. My single panel was strapped to a long pallet. Very much.on.its own and the guys at the depot behaved as if it was the first they'd seen? I'm surmising it's a loss leader. I don't know any other mobs that are doing it at this price point?
I don't know either now, they were collected from Warrington yesterday and arrived here on the south coast 9am this morning, next day delivery from a national pallet delivery company.

They are the blackest ones In have ever seen, cannot even see any cell interconnect wires at all.

Datasheet,
https://dam.cityplumbing.co.uk/private/ ... ECH_00.pdf

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Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 25MWh generated
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GSHP + A2A HP's
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nowty wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 9:45 am
Joeboy wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:21 pm
nowty wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 10:17 pm They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance.
I don't actually know how they do it. My single panel was strapped to a long pallet. Very much.on.its own and the guys at the depot behaved as if it was the first they'd seen? I'm surmising it's a loss leader. I don't know any other mobs that are doing it at this price point?
I don't know either now, they were collected from Warrington yesterday and arrived here on the south coast 9am this morning, next day delivery from a national pallet delivery company.

They are the blackest ones In have ever seen, cannot even see any cell interconnect wires at all.

Datasheet,
https://dam.cityplumbing.co.uk/private/ ... ECH_00.pdf

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Congratulations, enjoy the fitting. I always do!
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We are due a downstairs bathroom rip out and refit as walk in shower. I quite liked city plumbing wee showroom so will give them the business. Would never have known about them but for the solar connection.
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Ripple 7kW WT & Gen to date 19MWh
42kWh LFPO4 storage
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Deep insulation, air leak ct'd home
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I was about to go out to get some 18mm thick plywood as a working board on the car port roof as my previous crawling boards were rotting through. Then I realised the pallet the panels came on was 18mm plywood with steel reinforcing strips, just what I needed. :xx:

Last time I replaced the panels I used a mini tower at the front of the house which was hard work, but I reckon its going to be an easier job working from my car port.

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16.9kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 25MWh generated
5 Other RE Coop's
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60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 510 m3
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