It’ll soon be 24 hours since the battery and solar went live here and today’s been a nice sunny day to give it a good test. Already the battery is full for later, the house doesn’t want much power and the panels, whilst not at their 4.050kW peak are already producing a nice 3.61kW which (with nowhere else to go) is gett8ng sent out to the grid. That’s actually frustrating because the facility to be paid for that export hasn’t been set up yet by the delivery network operator. Still, a good start.
@christineburns time to run the dishwasher, washing machine and dryer!
@christineburns or bake, ovens take up a surprising amount of energy
@Nicovel0 It would be tempting to plug the car in if I could persuade it to throttle down to 3.2kW charge rate.
@christineburns @Nicovel0 we were in this position for months - basically an entire summer (slow DNO approval for a larger system). If you've got a "granny box" (3-pin car charger) it only uses 2-3kW, and can help absorb some of the excess. You have to manually plug it in though...
@Loungeiguana @Nicovel0 Crikey! I never thought of using the granny charger! You’re right, it would pull only 2.2kW and that would be met from the solar alone. I’ll do that next time if need be. I could grab the same 6.6kWh in three hours.
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖
Nicovel0 🍉
Loungeiguana