This is our problem.
South facing
North facing
Any ideas if we could add them to the conservatory?
Doubt if the conservatory would stand the load of the panels. The question would be whether the protuding windows are big enough to mount a panel on and whether they are strong enough.
Oh, and I recognise that abacus as one of KettleJnr2ās toys.
Best day record broken today 
Also just noticed, if I take the screenshot with my phone open on the inside screen (itās a foldable) the pic looks a bit like our bungo 
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needs some big, f*** off horns inside the window 
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And a giant cat at the door.
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Starting to get annoyed by the fascist fifth column infiltrator in my garagePowerwallās lack of direct control. Today is a day of wall to wall sunshine near the solstice and it decided it needed to fill itself up overnight.
Iām thinking about covering my rear roof (near 45 degree pitch, facing less than 10 degrees east of due south, compromised only by two largeish Velux windows) with up to 8-9kW of panels. Iād like a battery too.
But itās this kind of idiocy which worries me. Iāve been grumbling for 30 years or more about stuff which comes with onboard computer control which is so very badly implemented but which canāt be bypassed. Is Powerwall particularly bad in this respect (its basic battery technology looks like good value) or do the alternatives have equally clueless dumbfucks driving them ?
Powerwall is bad for āMusk wanting to control all of lifeā reasons. When we got it 6 years ago it was the best option for capacity and the ability to island itself in power cuts, but now stuff like GivEnergy can do all of that and actually take direct instruction. When the Powerwall gets to end of life that is probably the way we will go.
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Ta.
For historical reasons I have long tails between my electricity meter and my consumer unit so I put a 2-pole isolator close to the meter in case I should ever need to work on them. I donāt know if Powerwall warns you in advance that itās going to do some dumb charging. If it does then all Iād have to do would be to open the isolator and force it not to. Itās disappointing (understatement) though that such crude hardware kluges might be needed to keep a supposedly āintelligentā* system working as it should.
*Thatāll be intelligent in the same sense that Trump is a stable genius.
As we discussed over Lopwell Graeme, Iāve been impressed with our SolarEdge Home Battery
The Backup function is great, charging schedules are a breeze to set via the App.
Only (slight) niggle we have had is very ocasionally it will discharge when charging our EV as the Zappi charger canāt tell the difference between the DC from the Solar and DC from the battery. Itās only happened once or twice so Iāve not investigated further. Of course we are charging via OctopusGo overnight anyway so its not really actually an issue.
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Yeah, our Huawei system is very configurable via the app on my phone.
I reckon most current ones are - Tesla is the exception rather than the rule Graeme.
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Have you shown Ed the graphs?
Part of me wonders if you could effectively synthesize the product of a CT clamp as if it was showing the output of the solar or battery if they were AC coupled.
Oh, and I think we need to see your generation stats for today.
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Yeah I chatted with both the Zappi and Solar suppliers but Iāll be honest its really not been an actual issue so Iāve just left it!
I think we are getting quite a bit of thermal loss/throttling with the heat as it is, as we are still not hitting 10kW peaks.
We were hitting 9kW and 82kWh days in Mid-May.
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Weāre holding off for sodium batteries. Coming soon (years) they say..
āWeā would never buy a Musk thing now..
Not even if he confessed his sins, begged for forgiveness and actually made amends (no chance of any of that happening anyway).
Still not even if he beat himself with heavy birch branches until he bled, every night before bed.
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