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  1. From previous forum discussion I belive that export on one phase offsets import on the other 2 phases, but only if the export and import happen at the same time. If you export and import at different times both get logged by the meter but don't offset each other in the meters registers.
  2. I use Solaredge and you can pick them up on Ebay for £15 upwards if you're prepared to wait. Otherwise £40? upwards. They have a 25yr warranty so I'm not bothered about buying privately. Optimisers/micro inverters are wired in a string the same way as panels can be wired. The panels plug into their optimiser but arent functionally part of the string. The difference is that where a faulty/shaded/lower powered panel in a conventional string can block or restrict the power coming from the rest of the string, optimisers don't. Each optimiser allows power from the rest of the string to pass through it unrestricted and adds any power it has available. If an optimiser has no power to add because its panel isnt producing any, the rest of the string carries on producing as normal. Each optimiser has an MPPT in it to get the most power out of its panel. You can connect whatever panels you want to optimisers so long as the panels output is within the optimisers input range AND the optimiser is compatible with other optimisers in the string. If youre asking about mismatched panels in a conventional string then yes you can, but the lower rated panels will likely restrict the output of any higher rated panels. It's doable but alot more restrictive than using optimisers/micro inverters
  3. Reducing load will increase the voltage, so Try that at the times you're getting the problem and see if it clears things up
  4. Get someone who's familiar with doing this to show you where to measure, where to put the probes and which range to select. There's a fair chance of exposed bus bars behind the cover with 400vac on them that have got the potential to kill you and/or spoil your xmas.
  5. If you look at the grid voltages in the snap shots you posted, the L3 phase is up to 252.4vac when your only generating a few hundred Watts, so you're running close to the grid max. Maybe your inverters grid voltage limit has reset to 253vac after the power cut and you're hitting that? If you put a load on that phase, like an electric fire, it will pull the voltage down. Maybe add a kw or 2 of load to each phase when you want to test things
  6. The DNOs max supply voltage is 253vac but your inverter can likely push the house voltage higher before it shuts down. Before our DNO upgraded our transformer mine has in the past run up to 262vac before it shuts down.
  7. They look to be the same panel with 5 watt difference? If that's the case you'll be fine mixing and matching. You can put them on separate MPPT inputs on your inverter if you want to get the last 36watts(5x9) out of them, but you're unlikely to notice the 36w loss if you mix them up For clarity your official approval is almost certainly for your inverter output not the number or capacity of panels connected to it, so don't get hung up on the number of panels you have if other panel configurations would work better for you.
  8. If you're using optimisers and likely micro inverters, you can mix and match panels. We've got 310, 320, 335 and 405 watt panels all on the same inverter. There's a cost overhead, but optimisers have lots of advantages one of which is the ease of alteration/expansion.
  9. Yep it's a G100 compliant inverter that's required to legitimately implement export limitation. G100 is an industry spec produced by the ENA for all DNOs to use . If yours has said they don't trust the spec then they really need to go back to the ENA with their concerns. On the other hand it may only be the view of the the individual you contacted and if you pressed them they would(should) permit export limitation??
  10. But I wasnt referring to you. I was commenting on Helene who says they've got very limited knowledge. Someone who sees 4 screws on an enclosure when someone experienced says theres only 2 so they maybe going into wrong enclosure. It's nuts to suggest someone with no/limited experience goes into a live enclosure when it can easily be isolated.
  11. Send the designer the photo as that's got 3 phases going in and 3 cables coming out of the back going to 3 isolators....looks pretty 3 phaseish to me. SPEN upgraded our transformer last year to 25kva single phase just for us. If that's 50kva single phase for 4 houses then that sounds relatively underrated for an electrified future......unless it's actually a 3 phase unit. Maybe they've got their records wrong!
  12. If you need to ask whether to isolate before removing a cover, there's no question you should isolate before removing the cover.
  13. If they are taking more than is due/agreed, just cancel the DD. They'll soon be in touch and far more amenable to sort things out.
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