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100A fuse upgrade: meter to consumer unit?
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<blockquote data-quote="pedg" data-source="post: 500552" data-attributes="member: 33044"><p>Interesting thing about these tariffs is it makes having a battery system a viable option even for those people without solar as you can cover the expensive period by timeshifting power from a cheaper period that will take 30 to 50% off the electricity bill. For us the combination of summer savings via the solar and winter savings via timeshifting power means it will pay for itself several years sooner than just via the solar, the duration of which was what had been putting me off beforehand. My rough estimate brings it down from about 12 years to 8 but will not know for sure until it's (eventually!) used in anger.</p><p></p><p>I think I am moving towards the 80A option. Once the battery system up and running will be able to better monitor energy usage via its CT clamp on the main cable so will be able to see how high it does go (current 'smart' meter has self lobotomized itself so of no use at the moment). For the AC inverter I have there is some software that both reports current data and allows it to be controlled programmatically. Was going to use this to try and automate when it charged from the mains but probably sensible when it is set to do that to keep an eye on the power been drawn from the grid so it can I can turn it off again if the current gets close to 80A.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pedg, post: 500552, member: 33044"] Interesting thing about these tariffs is it makes having a battery system a viable option even for those people without solar as you can cover the expensive period by timeshifting power from a cheaper period that will take 30 to 50% off the electricity bill. For us the combination of summer savings via the solar and winter savings via timeshifting power means it will pay for itself several years sooner than just via the solar, the duration of which was what had been putting me off beforehand. My rough estimate brings it down from about 12 years to 8 but will not know for sure until it's (eventually!) used in anger. I think I am moving towards the 80A option. Once the battery system up and running will be able to better monitor energy usage via its CT clamp on the main cable so will be able to see how high it does go (current 'smart' meter has self lobotomized itself so of no use at the moment). For the AC inverter I have there is some software that both reports current data and allows it to be controlled programmatically. Was going to use this to try and automate when it charged from the mains but probably sensible when it is set to do that to keep an eye on the power been drawn from the grid so it can I can turn it off again if the current gets close to 80A. [/QUOTE]
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