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Yuff
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Looks like another free hour tomorrow
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Yuff wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:38 am Looks like another free hour tomorrow
Email just in to me, another 1pm to 2pm slot tomorrow Sunday 18th. :mrgreen:
Looks like you don't have to opt in for the session if you already were in the last one. :D

Its going to be a tough one though with full sun tomorrow down here, there will be 10kW+ coming in to fight against :? , but Nowty Towers likes a challenge :xx: .

Plenty of headroom in the EV though and I need 100% battery by Monday morning as I am off to London to see daughter and family off to start a new life in Switzerland.
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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nowty wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 11:02 am
Yuff wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:38 am Looks like another free hour tomorrow
Email just in to me, another 1pm to 2pm slot tomorrow Sunday 18th. :mrgreen:
Looks like you don't have to opt in for the session if you already were in the last one. :D

Its going to be a tough one though with full sun tomorrow down here, there will be 10kW+ coming in to fight against :? , but Nowty Towers likes a challenge :xx: .

Plenty of headroom in the EV though and I need 100% battery by Monday morning as I am off to London to see daughter and family off to start a new life in Switzerland.
Thanks Nowty, no email up here but when I logged into Octopus account it's looking good! :)

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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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No invite to the last one or this one
Very strange
Checked email spam folder and nothing sitting in that inbox either.
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AGT wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 11:56 am No invite to the last one or this one
Very strange
Checked email spam folder and nothing sitting in that inbox either.
If you are registered get intae it!
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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nowty wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2024 11:36 am Yesterdays free power hour here was 19.557 kWh.

My import baseline should be zero, so if export is not taken into account I should receive a credit of 19.557 x 23.71 = £4.63

If export is being included in the baseline, thus giving me a negative baseline then the credit is likely to be nearer £6

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Actually, it would be illogical for export to give a negative baseline, is usage itself gives a negative basline (ie we are told that we will pay for normal usage,we only get "free" energy above that). If anything, export should give a positive baseline and we get paid more (but I doubt that they want to give us free money).
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Krill wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:00 pm
nowty wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2024 11:36 am Yesterdays free power hour here was 19.557 kWh.

My import baseline should be zero, so if export is not taken into account I should receive a credit of 19.557 x 23.71 = £4.63

If export is being included in the baseline, thus giving me a negative baseline then the credit is likely to be nearer £6

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Actually, it would be illogical for export to give a negative baseline, is usage itself gives a negative basline (ie we are told that we will pay for normal usage,we only get "free" energy above that). If anything, export should give a positive baseline and we get paid more (but I doubt that they want to give us free money).
We are both correct just thinking about it in a different way.
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Just realised my supplementary battery charger is on the same DC cable as my DC Solar charge controllers and I never expected them to run simultaneously. :?

So its possible to approach 100A with both together, I could not remember the fuse rating, I thought it was 80A but luckily its 100A. There is a possibility of breaking my combined DC charge / discharge peak Amps record tomorrow once I've added on the Amps from the Sunny Island charger. :xx:

Peak DC Amps record at Nowty Towers Its currently 201A in discharge mode,
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Tomorrow may break that DC Amps record in charge mode if its full sun during the power hour. :shock:
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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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nowty wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:34 pm Just realised my supplementary battery charger is on the same DC cable as my DC Solar charge controllers and I never expected them to run simultaneously. :?

So its possible to approach 100A with both together, I could not remember the fuse rating, I thought it was 80A but luckily its 100A. There is a possibility of breaking my combined DC charge / discharge peak Amps record tomorrow once I've added on the Amps from the Sunny Island charger. :xx:

Peak DC Amps record at Nowty Towers Its currently 201A in discharge mode,
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Tomorrow may break that DC Amps record in charge mode if its full sun during the power hour. :shock:
:o
I am still getting my head around buying for X amount then selling back for 2xx amount plus a penny.

Got a good strong meter signal Nowty?

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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Joeboy wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 8:24 am I am still getting my head around buying for X amount then selling back for 2xx amount plus a penny.

Got a good strong meter signal Nowty?

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By the end of the month I think Nowty Towers will have exported more in 2024 than imported. With the current rates I only need to export half of my import for all of my energy to be free. :mrgreen:

And thats not counting FITs, Ripple projects, saving sessions or power hours. :D

Smart Meter has never lost any data yet. :xx:

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