Recent content by Everest

Will mull this over, but wondering if the Solax can only utilise its AC GEN input when the grid is down?

We're grid-tied, but don't use any grid power for 9 months of the year. Not yet paid for export (work in progress), but we generate much more than we are permitted to export, so can still charge the EV from solar for free.

So far we've only used free solar for our EV - but that's possible having not doing many long journeys :)

:) best day so far... we made hay whilst the sun shone; generated just over 80kWh today, put 11.8kWh into the house battery and consumed a further 54.8kWh including filling the EV with half a tank of electrons :) Thanks to a sunny April, we've generated just over 1.7MWh this month 🥳

Is that to switch it on and off, or do you alter the duty cycle to charge at different rates?

Today's looking rather good... PV was generating 11.8kW, house battery charging at 2.8kW, car charging at 3.9kW, dishwasher running, immersion heating on full power. Better find some washing to put on soon 😎

How does a Zappi know about home battery SOC and charge rate etc.?

That's good you could adjust the setting - it's so satisfying being able to charge ones car for free using solar. We are anticipating getting at least 6 months completely free charging over the summer months :)

Good result - I heard good reports of the Colchester dealer. Good you didn't have to go though all the issues and 1.5 years of battles, detailed in this thread... https://www.mgevs.com/threads/paint-peeling-off-bumper.12933/

Humm

Does your Vestel charger not have a capability to specify the charge rate? FWIW, we use a portable charger with a commando plug that gives us a choice of about 8 different charge rates, from 6A to 32A.

But for £20K you can buy an 18 month / 2 year old XPower with 10K on the clock. Then it's all yours - no balloon payment in 2/3/4 year's time.

Cool - and you get to hang the hoodie cycling on the pavement at the same time (y)

Not surprised. I'd imagine it would be a can-of-worms, liability wise.

Be aware that the min you can set the discharge limit to is 20% IIRC.