The UK
Did you see the UK prices announced for this Winter!! £3.5k now the typical annual cost
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58090533
hmmmm.....wondering if FIT prices will follow suit and rise by 35%?! - LOL
Holy flock, SSE just announced a 35% electricity rise from October, other suppliers to follow apparently.
If all do follow with similar, then that would be roughly 1.5-2 years knocked off my system payback. will have gone from an estimated 8.5-9 years from day of install, to 5-5.5 years by end of the 1st year with all the increases.
When I check as per that video, Optimal Income was set to Stop, so grid charging was off?
Advanced menu password on a Solis is defaulted as 0010
This video shows how. https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=solis+hybrid+inverter+-+self+use+with+time+charging&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_s38HY8L9I-OThbIP2eipsAU22
That did cross my mind, but I've never setup any charging off the grid, don't even know where those settings are,
I'll have to get the password for the advance settings menu off the installer, probably in there.
The key I think is in the use of the words "Generation" and "Consumption". Basically generation graph is where your solar panel energy went, some of that went into the battery, but of course you probably also charged the battery from the grid? That wouldn't be included there, but it would be included in the "Consumption"
Guessing a little.
I'm hoping someone can help me make sense of the battery readings off the Solis cloud app.
I would have assumed that the monthly in/out power to the battery would be the same, give or take a full battery charge at the start of the month. Eg for July, 168kwh went into charging, yet I got 224kwh out.
Including the total consumption, production,imports and exports figures with those battery figures, they do balance out, so I'm obviously not reading something right. Can anyone help me get my head around it?
Do you mean the discharge or the import/export bounce?
The discharge is a feature now on newer versions. I saw on the Solis group someone with 3A0030 had it, so I guess yours is just before that came in? A1 was apparently a special version to reduce the discharging as it was too severe.
On the import/export jumping around overnight, this is a separate issue. They changed some parameters but it doesn't appear to have made a difference. It swings between 2-300W import & export all night.
Did you get a further update along with this info or does this apply to A10032?
This is today's DC voltage output so far...
Just to update this in case anyone has aa similar issue, the Installer called out this morning and was on to Solis while he was in the house. The issue couldn't be resolved through technical support so he swapped out the Inverter. Back up and running agian now.
The tiles were indeed the most difficult part for me as a DIYer. But it's straight forward. Tiles are all lose and interlocking. You need to raise up the tiles above and to the side of a tile, allowing you to push it up under the one above it, fix the bracket to the roof timber (I have a trussed roof), then pull the roof tile back down into place.
@DrPhilG you should maybe just add another small 3kW size inverter connected to panels on a simple wooden frame out in a field ? Or build a metal frame with unistrut.
Jaysus I didn't realise it was this easy. I left room for 5 panels across 3 East and 2 west... bungalow so no scaffold needed. I guess mounting brackets are easy too? Tiles....
Nice one - although it's temperature dependant too, so a cold sunny day in the middle of Feb/Mar could have you knocking about 600v. That's not to say don't do it, just be mindful of it.
One string already at 13 panels and going fine. Checked the max before expanding the garage earlier in the year.
Careful though Phil on the max voltage. Normally it's about 600v and 13 panels will have you knocking in and about that.
Have a look tomorrow, or even at todays telemetry and see what your voltages maxed out at.
Bear in mind though that on cold days, the voltage will most likely be higher.
So like this. This is two strings in parallel
It's stupidly simple. The connectors are different, one male and one female. The male of the first panel connects to the female of the second, and so on.
On the inverter are also a male and female connectors. You would need a male to female extension cable from where the inverter is to the first panel of the string, and from the last panel back to the inverter.
Yes, it's that simple. The plugs click together, nice and firmly. There is an MC4 tool to disconnect connections.
Even to make your own extension cable is easy. Plenty of videos on YouTube. The connectors are always called MC4's
So you can see why I asked if you played with Lego. No wonder these lads do a whole roof in a day.
And there is nothing anywhere to say that you cannot do all of this. RECi stuff is all about the AC side, not the DC side.
Still have space for 2 panels on the house. That would bring me to 13 per string and I'd be maxed out.
Hard to get the 310w JA panels though, they're discontinued basically.
Expanding again?
Actually I know a scaffolder. Might come in handy.
So how do the panels connect? Do they daisy chain to the others?
rent a scaffold tower, brave the roof I guess. I'm thinking 4 more panels on each side of the roof.
Did you play with Lego as a kid ?
How hard is it to add panels to an existing setup? From a DIY point of view.
Good point. Must check. Solis inverter and JA panels.
I had this issue with Solis/Puredrive. I have these Alarms in the app:
My installer raised it with Solis and I didn't hear anything until a couple of weeks ago I had a call from Puredrive. They sent a couple of lads over to update firmware on batteries. It's been about 10 days now and no more alarms.
You will also need to check the voltage of the panels as you cannot exceed the inverter voltage maximum
