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Indeed, it's no wonder we are in this situation in the first place when so many people seem to be unable to see past the end of the month, never mind several years into the future!
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Indeed, it's no wonder we are in this situation in the first place when so many people seem to be unable to see past the end of the month, never mind several years into the future!
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Polestar is Volvo, one of the cheapest ones listed here. 0-60 in 5 seconds
https://octopusev.com/cars
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Thats not much worse than the GO tariff, where are you seeing this?
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Yeah was some crazy prices going on back then, I think I was quoted about £12,000 or something for the actual panels and then I can't remember the pay back on them... Wasn't long to be honest after I bought the house... Think they should bring something like that back in really, from what everone is saying, SEG is the thing now, but how good is it??....
Soldato
Terrible for the most part.
SEG should track retail price cap rates, at the moment SEG may as well not really exist, it barely pays anything to export.
Only Agile Outgoing seems any good, and reasonably tracks prices, but can't use in combination with Octopus Go.
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Seems like people with solar get screwed over for trying to help themselves and possibly other when they export but get sod all in return.... I do try to use all of my generated power... I think I might consider a battery if they are thinking about charging £1+/kW... Soon make that back!!
Soldato
That is why I have a battery indeed, seemed a no brainer to add it with the install.
Also gives a bit more flex in usage, instead of having to zoom to turn stuff on when the sun comes out for an hour
Soldato
Ok, noob at this Solar stuff. I have a quote.
14 x 375w JA solar Panel
5kw solis inverter
Switch gear, cabling, meteri
Pan tile roof mounting kit
Installation
Scaffolding
HIES, MCS, NICEIC package
£5960 (0% vat)
Any good? What should I ask?
14 x 375w JA solar Panel
5kw solis inverter
Switch gear, cabling, meteri
Pan tile roof mounting kit
Installation
Scaffolding
HIES, MCS, NICEIC package
£5960 (0% vat)
Any good? What should I ask?
Soldato
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similar to my system about what I paid.
does it come with bird proofing?
are you considering a battery?
(I don't know if possible) but if there is a remote control unit for the solis inverter you may want to get it. I love my system but it's a pita having to go in the attic just to swap to BST or GMT and it would be nice to be about to charge or discharge.my battery on a whim. (also feed back here if such a control module exists...... mine as is only goes one way reading from the inverter but can't control it with the app
I have zero knowledge of solar, but that seems like max of 5.25kw of energy production. Which is probably enough to run the average household most of the time (not when doing the washing, boiling a kettle, oven on etc. at the same time).
Does it have a storage system?
Given the energy costs right now that seems reasonable. Could probably save you 2-3k a year.
Some 24" LED monitors could run at 20W, larger high end ones are probably around 40-50W
Don't trust them.
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more likely closer to £1k per year electricity price depending
Soldato
Not just the monitor though. My Ryzen 1700 system with RX470 graphics uses 260W* on Civ6 gaming. I would allow up to a pound a day for modest gaming. All those with more grunt, allow more.
*Closer to 80W for browsing, general office stuff.
Soldato
Hi, there is a long solar thread going in home and garden section.
To answer your question on the face of it that looks good, we paid about £1000 more for a similar set-up. If you have a hot water tank ask about getting a got water diverter.
Great price in the current market. Will need a G99 though before it can be turned on.
Soldato
Yep solar thread here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-real-world-reccomendations.18946524/page-135
For posterity
So just to update everyone here, I got the switch replaced and I had a bit of a shock as to the reason why it was broken. It was wired up incorrectly and so much power was going through it, it melted the inside. It was getting hot to the touch. I don't know if the electrician was being dramatic (he's a well trusted guy) but he said if nothing was done about it then it was likely to start an electrical fire within the next few weeks. And we all know how hard they are to put out if you don't have the right equipment. I feel like we dodged a huge bullet there!
On another note it looks like all our hard work is paying off and we managed to get our usage to 8Kwh per day. Which is about £2.75 per day....nice!
This was really hard going, my aim was to reduce as much as possible without actually changing our lifestyle. The only real change to what we do on a daily bases is using an extra remote to turn some smart plugs on/off and the end of the day before bed. It's incredible we managed to reduce our usage to under half what we used to use. I was also surprised how long it took EDF to register the change in usage, i still think they massage the figures a bit by mixing readings with predictions on usage like they use an algorithm of some kind, it's too late to check that now so whatever.
This is my day's usage
The spike was because of the washing machine. but the baseline now is about 0.2-0.25kwh now
Soldato
So it was just throwing juice into this black hole of an immersion heater?
If there is one minor good thing out of all of this energy crisis stuff, it's that stuff like this can be discovered and fixed!
If there is one minor good thing out of all of this energy crisis stuff, it's that stuff like this can be discovered and fixed!
Soldato
It really is amazing how much you can reduce usage by just switching things off over night!
6 months ago I rarely turned things off at the plug overnight/when out the house for a few days, the savings weren't worth the effort in my mind!
Back in Feb-Mar I used over 400kwh, but now in July I used around 150kwh, and with the unit price going from 20p to 30p that's hell of a saving!
I think the biggest change was changing my hot water heater from 4 hours a day to 1 hour, as well as turning it off completely when i'm out for a few days as i'm regularly staying at the gfs for a full weekend!