MrGrumpy
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That’s about going rate for my area , albeit one or two have taken the piss .
Solar panels….?
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That’s about going rate for my area , albeit one or two have taken the piss .
12 panels of what wattage???
kipster
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We got 9.1kWh today, a bit of sun this afternoon helped, but a fairly poor day overall.
Jenkins
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Just out of interest I stuck my details into the East Suffolk Council linked supplier earlier today and it came back with the follwing quote
I don't know the size of the panels, their output or the size of my roof before anyone asks, but a later quote using a different email address and a guessed roof size of 6m x 3m suggested 6 panels with a total price of abour £8300, but I didn't save that one andthe house is ESE/WNW orientated.
I'm not sure it's worth it being a very low user - even in winter I'm only using about 160kWh per month, although this will probably increase now I'm part retired.
I don't know the size of the panels, their output or the size of my roof before anyone asks, but a later quote using a different email address and a guessed roof size of 6m x 3m suggested 6 panels with a total price of abour £8300, but I didn't save that one andthe house is ESE/WNW orientated.
I'm not sure it's worth it being a very low user - even in winter I'm only using about 160kWh per month, although this will probably increase now I'm part retired.
Im a low user like yourself at between 150/160kwh a month……but its the price of those units a month that convinced me in the end to get a 3.2kwh system put on the roof, but no battery. The system will cover daytime loads and any excess sell back to the grid, to offset evening and nightime use. I went against a battery for now to keep the costs down.
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Probably a good idea, we also may need a are my panels f**ked thread, pretty sure something is wrong with my system, may have to do a reboot, it was only showing producing 20w for most of the day yesterday with a total of 0.2kWh, it's still showing the same 20w today, yet it's a lot brighter & I would have expected on past experience to be 100w at least.
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Switched off my panels, switched off the inverter, switched on inverter, switched on panels, now producing 180w maybe I should have done that yesterday
That doesn't sound like a good system, if that is something you are likely to have to do
It should handle any errors automatically.
yeh i wouldnt want to be going into my attic to reset things.....but on my app, there is an alarm function that would alert me of issues on the system
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No idea if it was the right thing to do or not, but it had been on 20W since yesterday morning, no alarms on it, but it appears to have done the trick, it's now producing 200w which for the grey day seems about right.
TBH it was one of the reasons I don't like to have anything electronic installed in the loft, they always need reseting at some point, I have our router, a switch, a networked HDD all up in the loft & they are a RPITA after a powercut.
TBH it was one of the reasons I don't like to have anything electronic installed in the loft, they always need reseting at some point, I have our router, a switch, a networked HDD all up in the loft & they are a RPITA after a powercut.
