bazcurtisOctopus Agile rates are not very good overnight. Better around lunchtime. I don’t think I will charge overnight tonight. Export will have to wait until it has topped up the battery.
Nick McGill@bazcurtis I'm looking at Octopus Flux as I have solar and decent battery storage. It looks like is *should* give better returns than Agile.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
@nickmcg Only recently has Agile been “expensive”, I mean 15p overnight. I also like the option of the plunge pricing. Flux isn’t cheaper than 15p and the export rate is the same except at peak times.
This is my Octopus Watch report for the past year. This excludes export.
If you look at my blog, each month I publish my solar stats and in those post is another Octopus Watch report which shows my average import unit cost used.
@bazcurtis I'm new to this, but I'm importing very little (approx 20W to keep the iBoost sensor happy) and have a decent amount of battery available to export at peak time.
It looks like your blog will be very helpful to me too 😀
It looks like your blog will be very helpful to me too 😀
@nickmcg My biggest issue with it was, it was set to boost at 200w being exported. To me that seemed too low. It won't heat the water very quickly at that amount. I also saw it drain my battery instead of cutting out. I have set it to 500w now.
Even when the export is high say 1000w, I still think it will take a long time to heat the water if it needs more than just a top up. I think it is better to let it export than heat the water.
This is just my thinking. Not scientific
@bazcurtis I'm also not sure about iBoost and it's settings. If I deliberately export at Glow peak times, I don't really want it to heat the water while that's happening. I'll be using a smart switch to disable it 😂
@nickmcg That is an interesting solution. I just let the gas make sure it is hot.
@bazcurtis If it's not a rude question, what inverter are you using?
@nickmcg I have one of these. It is 3.6 KwH.
@bazcurtis ok, I was wondering as I have a Sunsynk and (once Octopus get my meter sorted out so I can usFlux), I'm planning on implementing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktkBl3inTA
I'm already using his dongle to locally monitor my system.
@nickmcg I would look at Agile as well. That is what I use.
This is a bit out of date and it gets updates all the time.
https://www.bazmac.me/blog/sunsynk-power-flow-card-for-luxpowertek-inverter-update2
You can read about my Agile experience with my month reports. I am on Octopus Fixed Export. 15p kWh
@bazcurtis I'm still feeling my way at the moment and my imports are minimal - less than 1kWh/day so chasing price fluctuations may not be worthwhile.
Until next winter ...
I'm using the power flow card too, as well as the full desktop from https://github.com/tomatensaus/DeyeSolarDesktop, although it's all Sunsynk-based it could probably be translated...
