Starting out on my heat pump journey

[Ronski]

Its not been too bad, it got down to 4c last night, forecast is for a minimum 3c tonight, I have covered it over with some boards.

Although Sunday's minimum is 1c, will see if I can find something else to put over it, better safe than sorry.

[Stinsy]

ASHP base is poured, hopefully the shuttering comes off once set.

Did you oil it?

[Ronski]

No, forgot that bit

Being furniture board I think it will be OK, and the long sides slope so they should release easily.

[Ronski]

Base is done, apart from some stone to go in the middle.

The formwork was a bit tight coming off, but I loosened off the screws and it came off.



That's probably the worse job out the way now, next jobs a bit closer to the time will be to get the fridge freezer out the utility room, and then move the kitchen cupboards that will need to come out, so the plumbing can go in.

PS. Just passed 40 kWh of solar today,will likely end up with 46 exported

[Joeboy]

Brilliant, that's quite a landmark. Congratulations!

[AGT]

Looks good Ronski!

[Ronski]

Thanks both, eventually that area will be replaced with stone, probably panda gravel, as the grass doesn't grow very well in that area.

[Ronski]

It won't be that today as batteries are down at 46% now thanks to this mornings discharge

I'll have to look into node red and be picking your brain for guidance!

I have 3 Victron Multiplus II 5000/48 running in parallel.

Nice, I had heard three parallel inverters could be a bit finicky, do they behave?

I'll help where I can, although I'm no coding guru, just post a link to your thread in this thread, otherwise I likely won't see it.

Here's my dashboard, or the part I use for schedules anyway. There is some background stuff that charges the batteries if there is an IOG session outside the off peak hours, thats automatic.

[Fintray]

It won't be that today as batteries are down at 46% now thanks to this mornings discharge

I'll have to look into node red and be picking your brain for guidance!

I have 3 Victron Multiplus II 5000/48 running in parallel.

Nice, I had heard three parallel inverters could be a bit finicky, do they behave?

I'll help where I can, although I'm no coding guru, just post a link to your thread in this thread, otherwise I likely won't see it.

The inverters were set-up by following guidance on the Victron site, one is the master and the other 2 act as slaves, I've not had any problems with them.

That dashboard looks very informative and something to aim for.