Solar PV Hints, Tips & Troubleshooting

I think its too bad u didnt just rename the SSID in the new router - it would have been seemless.

But since you are down that road now - you might have delete the plant in the app and setup again. Sounds drastic but i recon its the only fix. I waited to reply hoping someone else would come up wiht an easier workaround - but i think that will be the only option now.

Maybe BEFORE you do this - rename the SSID to something uniqu to your house - and everytime you chnage router in future that will be all you have to do.

Other than 'Auto', the drop down has 'WANoE Only' and 'DSL Only'

Ah cool - it's looks exactly like that picture you posted with the button half way up - so I've reset it there now.

Unfortunately it's still not connecting up for me. It's vey annoying, the data logger is broadcasting a signal but it won't connect to my wifi.

Yeah - it definitely reset.

I have emailed Solis - I might try and delete the plant info as per a pervious suggestion and see if that works.

Opened a ticket back in October for a longstanding issue with my Solis inverter. No response in months although around new year-ish it was finally assigned. I checked back today and the fecking thing was closed 2 weeks ago. No email alert on it, so I filled in the satisfaction survey that popped up and that seemed to have got their attention 😂

Adding to what’s above, you pay per kWh. Is that for a 2 month billing period? So if you used 1106 in the 2 month billing period, that’s €475 just for units (excluding vat and standing charges) if you’re paying 43c (inc vat) per kWh. That’s around the rate for people renewing now for 24hr meters on Bonkers.ie. So while it’s a terrifying cost, it’s correct based on usage.

Ignore all else and check first what kWh’s you used. Then you can start to work out why that’s increasing (if it has). When your provider said it was ‘865 units last year’ (which is about 250 lower than the other figure you mention), do they mean the last billing period (which covered Christmas too, so we use a lot of power if lights are on 24x7, guests over, heating cranked up, Dec was Baltic….). Or was that 865 units those same months the previous year? Even the pumps moving water around our rads for our oil / gas boilers use a low of watts. So if your gas heating was on a lot, it’s using some electricity for the pump and boiler itself (just not for the heating part of course).

Are those figure actual readings, or estimated?

All our electricity costs have doubled. But you need to see are you also using more. Then why that is.

As a comparison, in the last 2 months we’ve used 1600kWh. 600 for the house and we’re low usage (but excludes cooking). 600 is electric heaters in parts of the house (gas heating covers other parts). 400 for our EV.

What’s changed electricity consumption wise for summer into autumn V winter? Tumble dryers cost €1 an hour, or more if paying 40c per kWh. Are you heating with electricity (rads or hot water in immersion)… Electric rads if left unchecked will use a huge amount per day. Did you get an EV.

What is your heating system? Do you like rooms like a sauna is using electric heating in places? And, and…

You should also look at moving to another tariff possibly. But that’s after you find our what’s going wrong (if anything). 

"discharging from 4 to 9pm" Do you mean you are telling the battery to discharge during those times? Be careful - if you set that up in a solis inverter you are just dumping your battery to the grid - not actually using the energy in the house load. Maybe your inverter is different.

Can you disable the discharge times? They should not be set. That setting is only used if you are offered a very high FIT rate... It's not going to benefit you in Ireland.

They say they have "I have 6.6kw panels. 6kwh sofar inverter, 2 x2.4 dyness batteries" in post #3675

Post some pictures of the inverter screen where the charge and discharge settings are set, not the app screen shots.

are you able to access the inverter screen (on the inverter itself, not the app) where you are able to set charging and discharging times? if yes, take a photo of those settings with your phone and post it here.