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One month with a solar battery - real statistics (shkspr.mobi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A blog post about my London-based solar panels and battery.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Some interesting data, although given the high initial cost of installation I feel those "we paid only 1£" are a bit misplaced.

Anyways, I finally scraped together some money and also got a 5kw LiFePO4 battery system yesterday. Still need to install everything DIY, but I will probably hook up some statistics monitoring system as well as the new hybrid inverter has a cool integration with the Home Assistant software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what type of Statistics monitoring system you aiming for @poVoq. I have ordered a 3.7kw panels + special type inverter for direct heating of a boiler and a secondary boiler/other item. And i am intrigued what the monthly differences are in kWh generation and would like to track those. Only I have no idea what I can hook up between the panels and inverter to log.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hybrid inverter I got has a ethernet connection that can be connected to Home Assistant: https://github.com/nathanmarlor/foxess_modbus

Not sure yet how I will analyse that exactly, but it might be nice to automatically publish some stuff to a website via it.

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