Meter is on UTC, so when the meter is after 2300 and before 8:00 meter time you are on night rate.
A question on a standard day/night meter time.
My meter is 30 mins slower from actual time.
Is the time on the meter summer or winter time?
I want to avoid using any unnecesary day units
You should keep that private 😂
Dammit!!!
Just realised that the time was set wrong on the inverter. It was reading 2am when it was only 1am which means I've been pumping from the grid to the battery on the wrong time scale.
That's about €1.75 a night burned.
I think its a lever type, Fuse sits in the holder and then gets pushed in.
But I agree, Get it replaced with an MCB if you can.
I think you'd be better off getting it replaced with a non-twist-in type.
It's a 63a fuse.
Twas blown alright. Back up and running thanks to a life saving local boardsie.
I'll get to a wholesaler tomorrow and buy a few spares just in case.
I think that's called a Diazed or Neozed fuse, and they are a safety risk as they can come loose and burn out rather than trip. The lads in the electrical forum will know for sure.
12kW is around 52A. What is the fuse rated for?
Did you get sorted? Was it definitely that cartridge fuse or was it the main ESB fuse in meter cabinet?
Anyone awake at this fine hour?
Does it look like I've blown my main fuse?
Timed charge started as scheduled at 2am, car charging and house battery charging. Total load was around 12kW.
2:20am the power went out. No fuses tripped, but no power. It's not an outage, light still visible at the neighbours house.
Popped out the main fuse and it looks like it has some damage?
But are you going to block daytime charging to maximize exporting.
It will certainly be
Success...
Yeah I'll try that too, VW timed charging has been sketchy but I've never tried before.
I've got it set for 2hr 45min tonight and the battery charge to continue for 15 minutes longer so will see how that pans out.
Can you not ignore the Zappi timer, set it to FAST and time your charge from the EV? You can change Zappi back to ECO+ or whatever during waking hours via the App
Need to go higher?
You mean stop the car charge first while the battery is still charging? I can give it a go, I'll change the boost timer to 2hr 45min instead of 3hrs.
You possibly the battery is taking over from the grid.
Can the zappi be stopped charging 5 minutes before the inverter stopped charging and then the inverter doesn't keep the zappi charging
I disable the JKBMS discharge when charging car during the evening. This is done automatically via HA
That's what I'm trying to do, get a 3hr boost 2-5 but if the charge won't stop then from 5 onwards it'll drain the battery again.
If it's on fast then won't that make it charge all the time ie ignore the boost timer?
What about the standard fast mode(not eco at all?)
But yeah now with 5c import you'd be be better off charging on cheap rate and export during the day. Unless you need more than the 2-5 can supply
Never charge from solar?
That's a bit annoying. Surely the timed boost on the Zappi should charge during that time and then stop afterwards.
Bit of a major flaw if the only way to stop that it to render it useless for it's original purpose ie smart charging from solar.
Wow - I see the problem !!! I just checked my own as well.
With the Scheduled Charge, it must of course be on ECO+, so of course, it reverts to that after the charging is conpleted
Best option is probably to set a ridiculously high Export Threshold and Margin, so it basically can never charge again with Solar.
Thanks for the heads-up
On home assistant you could schedule a "boost" of 0 min (or at least that works for my Eddi). Does it keep going for long? Is it one of those timing between thte inverter seeing the dropped demand and the Zappi seeing the excess?
I'm setting a 2-5am timed boost though so manual stop not an option, just want it to not drain the battery.
If you don't want it charged via solar, just hit the stop button on the app
Remind me again how to ensure that the Zappi stops charging after a scheduled period?
Mine keeps going albeit at a lower rate.
Thanks Slave1, Under the stairs seems to be the best option for me so. Thanks idc, can I ask what type inverter & battery do you have. Ideally I'd prefer not to put it into the small bedroom as it would look unsightly unless I box it in somehow. The battery is so big I will loose out in alot of storage space but I'm sure its probably my only option with limited space.
Have Inverter and batteries in small box room of typical 3 bed house. Its now an office as opposed to a bedroom but never noticed any significant noise from inverter or batteries.
I think you can rule out attic space, very little headroom to work in and breathing room for inverter.
There is no issue with long cable runs from either panels to inverter or inverter to your consumer unit so don't worry about that side of things
All my consumer unit is under the stairs, two storey terraced house. Where is the best location to put the inverter/battery/eddie/home assistant/firemans switch
I have 4no. locations where some of the above equipment could be located, but would be willing to put any of the above at the best locations to suit, but I need advice.
Concerns are listed below:
I know its probably best to have inverter/battery/firemans switch closest to panels and most likely eddie in hotpress and any monitoring like home assistant etc. at consumer unit but has anyone done it differently based on the above concerns, thanks
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