Recent content by Stew

I don't know what I bought. Not today for the purchasing but I've had a notification today of a delivery due by DHL. Can I remember what it's for? Nope. Yes it'll be legit but it really annoys me that all the delivery notifications don't give you an indication of who/where it's from!

I dot think anyone these days thinks there’s a good income from solar. I could be wrong. The payback rate is likely half what you would buy at, if that. Ball park idea of payback being 6 - 10 years if you’re using all the electric. If you’re generating half the value by exporting it out then...

There is no real big set up plan with the plug-ins. It's simple and low level stuff not an export plan. A plug in is 800W so unless you're going to get a number of plug-ins then your generation will be quite low. Realistically if export to make money is your driver, I wouldn't recommend it...

Yes. I would expect any solar set-up to cost to then pay back over time. My electricity supply is fine but I still want to move away / reduce what I'm paying to an electricity company.

Can you essentially go off grid but just leave the poor grid connection in place?

I’m not sure the benefit of going totally off grid is there. Ok so you’ll be stuck with a standing charge but that would be minor versus the pain and cost of ever having to reconnect.

I’m coping with the heat by saving money on showering - solar shower every day!!

Woody G has a jackery - unfortunately the solar isn’t waterproof for that. Odd design! As to a utility company flagging you for potentially producing 800w of electricity - no chance. I know of an electric meter that was seized for six months. A smart meter appointment was booked. The engineer...

It does depend. Mesh is great to air hop when it’s more convenient than running a cable. For mine although it’s not a long run, meshing wasn’t reliable enough due to a few walls. Running a cable through teo narrow loft spaces was a pain but doing it once was better than the repeated pain of...

I think that even if you understand this system, you shouldn’t be adding it to a rental without getting approval first.

My house is not modern but RCDs can be switched out by a friendly electrician....

If you have a wheel type meter that has the ability to run backwards then that is what lots of solar folk want! As to the RCD, you can just get a module switched out for a bidirectional one.

What would you like to know? The production is what I would anticipate. Not optimum as these are old panels so less efficient than new panels but they were free! Mine is (currently) two strings of 3 panels. If you use new panels you would just buy two panels around the 400W output and...

Finally got round to plugging a number of panels in and connecting this up. Cor blimey it’s easy!!