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that is brilliant, planning will have a whale of a time for me at least lol@alphaomega16 So as not to keep derailing the other thread.
You just need something like this. Very easy to build.
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I'll take a look, thank youFrogstar battery?
See my edit above alsoI'll take a look, thank you
Have pushed back on the £2k scaffold price, as that is just ridiculous.Had a quote for the Tesla package today, from 'Effective Home':
Quotation: Cash
Payment Milestones
23 x JA Solar 435 Watt Panels (EH. JAM54D41-435/LB)
1 x EH. Tesla Powerwall 3 - with PV package (Tesla)TESLA discount - Customer direct from Tesla £-750.00 SPECIALIST SCAFFOLDING REQUIREMENTS £2,000.00 Bird Guarding £410.00 Total System Price £17,035.00
Excluding £0.00 VATStandard System Price £15,375.00
Excluding £0.00 VAT
Deposit £500.00 Pre-Install £8,517.50 Final Payment £8,017.50 Total £17,035.00
Scaffold price looks ridiculous (I challeneged them on it and got a salesmans response, they say they may do it cheaper after a survey is done, that is the highest it will be (but need to pay £500 for the survey - refundable if we go with them).
No EV charger either, they tried telling me that I am better off charging via an extension lead overnight 11.30pm until 5.30am).
From Spectra Solar, the EV charger is included.
'Effective Home' did point out that the inverter with Spectra is only 8kw but we would have a 10kw system - so 2kwph wasted (not sure if Spectra do a bigger inverter, will have to ask).
Your thoughts please?
I guess good value and compatible with Octopus ultimately.Frogstar battery?
Edit: do you want cheap or do you want fully featured?
Pylon and powerwall are at almost opposite ends of the market.
I guess good value and compatible with Octopus ultimately.
The Sunsynk seems fairly feature rich are will do everything I need (I think!) and the actual medium of storage is largely irrelevant, as long as its cost effective,safe and has good longevity.
My concern about the Tesla Powerwall is if Tesla drop the octopus collaboration in the future if start their own energy company. Also, it's not modular so you can't change individual components, however it has a long warranty
I'm not sure what you mean by 'compatible with octopus'.
There are only 2 product lines on the market which work with Octopus' smart solar tariff, they are the GivEnergy line of hybrid inverters and AC coupled batteries and the Tesla Powerwall (2&3).
Everything else just imports and exports at the relevant price when you tell it to.
Just bare in mind that you can't get paid for export unless you either have an MCS installation or go through Octopus' trial program. The latter costs £250 with no guarantee you'll be accepted (you'll get a part refund if you are not accepted). If you are not fussed about exporting (say for saving sessions), then don't worry about it. In any case you'll still need a G99 for the DNO.
It just gives you the ability to export with Octopus and it’s not transferable.What does the Octopus one actually give you do you know?
Thats quite a lot if it just gives you the export with them, but would seem OK value if you for some reason failed to get MCS originally and ended up with a transferrable cert, ie basically an MCS cert issued by Octopus?
Surely they can get a better idea of when they expect stock, although I hate ordering stuff on back order, it always takes longer then expected.We can get the Sunsync fitted in a few weeks / or wait until the Powerwall3 is in stock? (could be Sept/Nov latest)