Spring has sprung?

[Richard77]

Similar here low sun but easily catching 745Watts off the small panels on the south of the cottage.

It’s quiet now as the dogs are sleeping off the walk, kids are on their way to school and the rug rat has gone around to the annex to see nanny

Lovely

Moxi

Looks great where you are Moxi.... I feel the need to go on a mountain hike now!

I was going to wait a while before filling the roof with panels (££££) but I feel I could reduce electricity bill to £0 at worst and make a slight profit at best.

Will have to have a think about it... I wanted to try sort insulating the house first before getting anymore solar. But it is tempting!

Shame the DNO stopped me getting the 12KW inverter. It has 3 trackers on it, so that would have been enough to get all the arrays I planned to put on the roof(s). Would have to buy another inverter now as the two trackers on this 8.8kw would not be enough. Unsure whether DNO would allow me to add another inverter though seen as they stopped me getting the 12kw in the first place.

Add a solar charge controller to the dc side of things where your battery will sit. No need for an extra inverter.

Thanks NoraBatty... I think that has been mentioned before to me, for some reason (probably wrongly hehe) I want to try keep it all linked in together with one brand. All talking to each other in the same language, if that makes sense. I assumed it would just be easier to parallel 2x sunsynks up and they will all be one happy family in unison?

[NoraBatty]

Looks great where you are Moxi.... I feel the need to go on a mountain hike now!

I was going to wait a while before filling the roof with panels (££££) but I feel I could reduce electricity bill to £0 at worst and make a slight profit at best.

Will have to have a think about it... I wanted to try sort insulating the house first before getting anymore solar. But it is tempting!

Shame the DNO stopped me getting the 12KW inverter. It has 3 trackers on it, so that would have been enough to get all the arrays I planned to put on the roof(s). Would have to buy another inverter now as the two trackers on this 8.8kw would not be enough. Unsure whether DNO would allow me to add another inverter though seen as they stopped me getting the 12kw in the first place.

Add a solar charge controller to the dc side of things where your battery will sit. No need for an extra inverter.

Thanks NoraBatty... I think that has been mentioned before to me, for some reason (probably wrongly hehe) I want to try keep it all linked in together with one brand. All talking to each other in the same language, if that makes sense. I assumed it would just be easier to parallel 2x sunsynks up and they will all be one happy family in unison?

It apparently is easy to parallel 2 sunsynks up, and i suppose in theory the DNO cant complain if you apply, then deny but you have an active G100 limiting export anyway. Its just alot of money to achieve a similar thing.
You could use a combiner box to combine 2 strings before they enter the sunsynk mppt if keeping track on the 1 system is what you want.
Or you could also use home assistant to monitor everything from one place, pulled acrossfrom multiple different systems too.

The sunsynk app has its limitations, and is not great. It works, but seems to be kind of complicates for no real point from what ive seen in the last week. i will be moving to a HA monitored system at some point soon.

[Richard77]

Yeah...

I'm looking at getting hold of a raspberry pi or equivalent to try setup home assistant or solar assistant. Looking into it at the moment in what I need to set it all up.

Sunsynk app isn't the best and only refreshes data every 10 mins. It's doing my head in.

Do we have a home assistant thread here?

[NoraBatty]

Not to my knowledge.
Stinsy started discussing it a few months ago iirc.
I am a newbie to it all too but i understand there are some fairly well versed members here, so a dedicated thread might be in order.

[Stinsy]

Yeah...

I'm looking at getting hold of a raspberry pi or equivalent to try setup home assistant or solar assistant. Looking into it at the moment in what I need to set it all up.

Sunsynk app isn't the best and only refreshes data every 10 mins. It's doing my head in.

Do we have a home assistant thread here?

I've messed around with it a bit.

Thread is here:

https://camelot-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... f=9&t=3535

I've gotten it to do cool stuff such as charge the SH in the garden office according to weather forecast, control the resistive heaters based on shelly thermostats, and control how the iD4 charges based on its SoC.

I've also made a few dashboards.

It really is a powerful tool and you can clearly doo a lot of really cool stuff. My time just comes in chunks that are too small to make the most of it.

[Richard77]

Nice one Stinsy....

Will have a look at the thread.

[nowty]

75+ kWh today and still 1kW coming in at Nowty Towers with high 60's exported.

Everyday for the foreseeable looks the same.

Even you far north folk look like getting some excellent days in the coming week.

[Richard77]

Broke the 8kWh barrier for the first time today... Was throttled during the day too!

[Moxi]

Sure do, been a great day here and house battery sat at 89% and car has had 8% of the free range electric too !

As you say rest of the week is looking good so I’m hopeful of getting off the grid for a few or more consecutive days

Moxi

[Yuff]

Looking like it will be my first daily credit for 2025