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    Immersion heater off 13A plug

    Is the following safe? 3m 1.5mm core into 3kw immersion heater? The heater is set on a timer switch to operate maximum 1 hour per day, seems to get a little warm as you'd expect. Are these timer switches a risk running at high load, there's a lot of crap on the market, any recommendation? I...
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    Octopus Flux Battery Charging strategy

    I recently installed 8kw of solar on a south facing roof with a 5kw Hybrid Givenergy inverter and a 9.5kw/h Givenergy battery. An oversized system!! I'm on the flux tariff and as most flux users one of the core strategies is to dump the battery as much as possible between 4 and 7pm. I've I have...
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    Garage fire alarm with external siren

    I recently installed solar and battery at my house with the battery located in my garage. The garage is however attached the neighbours house and they are concerned the lithium iron phosphate cell is a fire risk. The risk seems IMHO but he has requested I install a fire alarm with the Siren...
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    Should I be applying to the DNO to increase my output?

    I'm about to install a system is around 7.2kw with a south facing roof (not much shade), I'd expect absolute peak from these panels to be around 6.5kw. I'm going for a 5kw GivEnergy Gen 2 inverter and a 9.5kw battery. Would my correct understanding be if the panels were producing 6.5kw that...
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    Octopus Tariff advice

    Newbie here!! I'm about to have my solar / battery system installed Spec 17 x 420w Jinko Neo Tiger 7.2kw (2 x strings) Giv energy 5kw Gen Hybrid Inverter 9.5kw Giv energy battery Eddi water heat (not final on this) Standard 3.6kw grid limit Cost - £13.5k Est annual output 5800 kw I have a...
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