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These 3/4" brass pins and lead saddles have been on the shelf at home since the late 1950's. Apart from melting the saddles down to make fishing leads, I cant see there ever being a use for them.

My fit energy company contacted me about my generation meter, every 2yrs they send someone to certify its the same meter and its not been altered from the original on the MCS cert. This year they asked for a photo instead, I sent them one, 4 days later I get an email telling me my account is now...

Its been a little quiet in here for a few days so though it a good time to open this can of worms. I have my 15kWh store in an attached garage adjacent to my main consumer unit. I am considering fitting a smoke and heat detector local to the batteries with an RF link back to other smoke...

I have since 2014 been using an Eco-Eye https://www.eco-eye.com/solar-power-products monitor for easy display of pv and grid energy updating every few seconds on a IHD. There is a serial output to which I have an original Rasperry Pi with just power/ethernet/usb to serial lead & an SD card with...

Not quite solar pv but associated. I can with a laptop and the correct lead with is RS232 from an RJ11 port on the battery to a USB conversion male plug, log into pBMS tools and realtime read my Battery stats. My battery is in the garage and I want to read it from the comfort of my lounge, so I...

I have a 2014 FiT solar system which is working well but dumping up to 2/3rds of its generation even at this time of year back to the grid, I would like to make use of at least some of that so I need battery storage. Having followed several big builds on here & other forums I was champing at...

I have since last Autumn been using a free app from Loop to view my smart meter info in my phone. In November they emailed to say they would be participating in the National Grids "turn down & save" where you reduce your electrical use for a set period of time and the grid pay you for saving...

Dont you just love it when the sun starts to shine. My South facing FiT 2.9kw panels generated 14.595kWh today. Consumption was 10.480kWh and I imported 4.385kWh. Sadly I exported 8.5kWh at a miserable 5.9p/kw.

Considering the cost of energy now I am wondering if I should be upgrading my system to add battery power. Currently my 12 south facing Sharp ND-R250as single string panels are coupled to a Samil Solar river 3000TL inverter & is registered for FIT payments since Jan 2014. I seem to have...

I have had solar panels since 2014 and the then dumb meter couldn't read my export so it was deemed 50%. I moved away from the FIT contract company to another as my energy supplier, they wanted to fit a gen 1 smart meter which turned out to be quite dumb, unreadable by the next energy company I...