Solar panels….?

[jowwy]

I'm trying to work out if it would now be cost effective to get a 2nd battery, I can see a single battery being fine during the summer months, but going forward now the battery is getting 100% charged during the day but being drained quite a bit whilst the evening meal is being cooked, which then does not have time to recover as the sun has already gone down.

im hoping the selling back of KW's to the grid via octopus outging at 15p will cancel out energy used in the evenings, without paying huge amounts for battery storage

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Do you have the Octopus smart meter, do you know the number they show for the cost of energy that day includes the daily charge, or is it just the actual usage? Ours is below £2 most days so I can live with £60-70 a month, but suspect they'll be another £30 on top for sanding charges

 

[Milkfloat]

My smart meter does not even show two different tariffs on Octopus. Regarding batteries, I have 6.2 kWh in batteries and was thinking about another, but so far seem to be able to last easily until my cheap rate kicks in at 12.30am. However, I do wonder if that will still be the case if they are not full at 4pm when it gets dark.

 

[jowwy]

Not bad for a 3.2kw system on a damp, cloudy day in october

 

[jowwy]

Do you have the Octopus smart meter, do you know the number they show for the cost of energy that day includes the daily charge, or is it just the actual usage? Ours is below £2 most days so I can live with £60-70 a month, but suspect they'll be another £30 on top for sanding charges

it includes the daily charge......as midnight strikes the daily usage resets to 47p and then starts to accrue on top of that as you use electric

caveat - the 47p daily charge is my charge, others maybe more or less

 

[Milkfloat]

This is me on a split array.

 

[jowwy]

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This is me on a split array.

so around 2.7kw on what size system??

 

[Milkfloat]

so around 2.7kw on what size system??

6.4, but I have not seen anything above 3.4kW which is understandable as I am split East and West and the inverter is only rated to 3.6kW. Th system was installed about 5 weeks ago, so I have not seen a really sunny day.

 

[jowwy]

6.4, but I have not seen anything above 3.4kW which is understandable as I am split East and West and the inverter is only rated to 3.6kW. Th system was installed about 5 weeks ago, so I have not seen a really sunny day.

makes sense......still good figures tho

 

[jowwy]

6.4, but I have not seen anything above 3.4kW which is understandable as I am split East and West and the inverter is only rated to 3.6kW. Th system was installed about 5 weeks ago, so I have not seen a really sunny day.

how is the octopus outgoing tarif going milky???

 

[Milkfloat]

how is the octopus outgoing tarif going milky???

Unknown - I don't even know if it is setup fully as my account is not showing me a huge amount. I am reluctant to query it until I get my first bill as I am not supposed to have Octopus Outgoing in conjunction is Octopus Go. At least they are taking meter readings for the outgoing.

 

[jowwy]

The data only updates every 5 minutes so I find it's not all that helpful for what's happening realtime

are growatts servers always down……not got any data since half 2

 

[kipster]

They are usually ok. It will all catchup.

I couldn't get data from 2:30 for a little while but it's all ok now.

 

[jowwy]

They are usually ok. It will all catchup.

I couldn't get data from 2:30 for a little while but it's all ok now.

Im not getting any at all since 2:30 and now says im disconnected

 

[kipster]

Try on their web site

https://server.growatt.com/