Rain will be here in a day or 2 and cooler temperatures
I know washing your solar panels isn't generally thought to be needed, but I just glanced up at mine and they seem really thick with dust.
We haven't had a lick of rain in about a week and it's another day of high 20s for heat.
Just wondered if there would be any harm in giving them a wee lick with the hose. Maybe not now, they must be absolutely boiling in the sun and knowing my luck they'd shatter with thermal shock.
But later tonight when it's dark and cooler.
Thanks. My understanding was it had to be wired in. Will take another look.
A ct is a current transformer, it clips around a live wire and can measure current.
If you look at the installation pdf, it has a wireless transmitter but the receiver needs to be plugged in. & Plugged into the router I think. (Yours will be the second option for install)
Another option is the emonpi but that needs a socket beside the consumer unit, but connects over wifi.
There is bound to be others but all work on the same principle.
What's cts?
It looks like it's wired as opposed to WiFi.
My inverter is in the attic and meter outside. Modem is in a different room.
Yep that's the one I was referring to early but have feeling there is a monitoring few with that one. Worth checking out as it's a while since I looked at that when I was trying to sort monitoring but went for eddi for hot water in end which provides the monitoring for me now
That should work, but you'll have to put cts in the consumer unit, one on the solar feed and one on the main feed.
Interesting system but Looks like wiring it in is required. Beyond my capabilities I think. Plug and play would be more my thinking 🙂
I use a shelly em (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-em-smart-home-automation-device/)
You plug it into the board and clamp the main live, then you can get data via wifi directly or send it to the likes of Home Assistant if you wish.
It can use two clamps so I have the second clamped to the EV live to see exactly how much that's using.
Any suggestions?
Have the efergy hub but only gives consumption and as you say, unreliable at low usage. Its showing 0.2kw while the meter hasn't moved all day
completely wireless ones cannot tell direction though and get inaccurate below 200W
To tell direction it needs to be plugged in (somewhere) to get an AC voltage reference and phase. so the bog standard energy meters wont work you need one that would support solar.
You can get some devices like the owl system on Amazon that will tell you usage and grid consumption/export. Or any of those types of devices that will come with a CT clamp
Guys, I don't have an eddi. Is there a device that I can clamp to the system to tell me how much is going to the grid.
It's the solar as a service set up with a 3.24kw system.
Deagol wrote: » All you could do is set a timer on the Eddi with a limit on the output but I think that would be inefficient. Surely your hot tank keeps water hot from the night before? If not - think about upgrading your tank insulation.
jkforde wrote: » Solis inverter & DC-coupled Pylontech battery MyEnergi Eddi I believe that there's a way to set thresholds so that the Eddi gets first dibs of the first solar surplus in the mornings. Anyone know how to do this?
6 wrote: » Get your installer. They should sort it immediately.
SD_DRACULA wrote: » Did you go to Advanced Settings --> Storage Energy Set --> Storage Mode Select and pick Self Use? If you have this menu.
MAULBROOK wrote: » Bopper you payed a lot of money for it, call the installer. He will probably talk you through it in moments. 99% of the time they are happy to talk it out and solve problems.
BopperSnr wrote: » Very sunny today and not much usage so still no battery discharge yet. It was professionally installed but I haven’t rang them about this as I wanted to start learning anyway. The return to default could be a good last resort idea. Cheers.
SD_DRACULA wrote: » It might be called Auto Mode as per the manual https://static.solartricity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Solis-Hybrid-Inverter-Manual.pdf and depending on your model
championc wrote: » If your use is higher than your generation at that moment, you should see an instantaneous result. What happened to your installer, or was it a self install ? I would have somewhat expected the inverter to be discharging the batteries by default, so can you do a return to default settings ?
BopperSnr wrote: » I just noticed I had the on/off the wrong way round. The button not highlighted means on/selected. If filled in blue, it means off/not selected. So I changed the ‘off grid’ mode to off properly and will see how that goes. Couldn’t find a ‘self use’ mode though. Will check the manual for that.
SD_DRACULA wrote: » You need make sure the mode is set to Self Use in the battery menu in advanced settings (password is 0010) and that the correct battery is selected from the list.
BopperSnr wrote: » Oh man, you may be pushing my knowledge. There is a CT clamp on the grid as I see the myenergi app doing the right things and showing the flows from the pv and the grid correctly. Just wondered is there a setting I need to check on the solis screen.
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