The Milk Float Thread

Cars
2930

When are you getting yours mate?

2931

ETA is end Feb.

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2932

What charger did you go for in the end?

I just ordered a wallbox pulsar pro for the new place, because small

2933

I haven’t decided which charger. Although it’s ugly probably a Zappi as they seem to have the best support for solar divert and battery. The Andersen looks nicest and says it supports solar but there’s not as much info available.

2934

If you have a battery backup what’s the need to worry?

2935

Basically you want your charger talking properly with your solar and battery so that you can feed your car with excess solar first, then divert to battery etc

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2936

And not confuse battery pull down with solar generation if nothing is coming from the grid.

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2937

I would only charge when dark, think it will be ok?

Probably going down the eon panels and battery too, got a call with them Monday

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2938

Don’t see why not. Depends on what type of tariff you go for. If I can get it working properly with the battery software, I like the Idea of Octopus Agile, but Octopus Go looks more straightforward for night time charging.

2939

I might be being naive here, but if you can get enough panels on and a big enough battery do you pretty much end up being ‘off grid’ and just feeding in during the summer?

2940

Yep, we did pretty much that.

2941

I won’t because I consume too much electricity for the array size and battery I can afford to cope, but we are at home all day so I’m a good profile for solar PV anyway. If you’re an average electricity user or battery billy big balls like @MrKettle with a Powerwall :smiley: definitely.

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2942

One tip I would give with Eon is go for the biggest battery you can afford. They asked me some questions and built me a quote based based the 5.2kW battery, but I went for the 8.2kW anyway. With inverter losses, depth of discharge limits and temperature efficiency losses, you won’t get full capacity.

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2943

Bigger is always better :+1:

Plus I’m trying to convince the mrs to go ev too

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2944

You give her the Zoe and get a Model S Raven?

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2945

I like big batts and I cannot lie.

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2946

Was thinking more about some crazy ev conversion :laughing:

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2947

Get that Hardly Ableson converted - a PP9 and a Tamiya RC car motor will double the performance. :rofl:

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2948

Could go two wheel drive :rofl:

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2949

Interesting that BP are a major investor in this company

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