frankmcs65

Hi Richard,haveing lived in Scotland,Peterhead for a short time myself,may I say hello to a lovely side of the country..... Having to cope with a rather heavy need of energy is always a challenging thing...adding usage is even more,while the goal would be reducing energy needs.Imho you have got three options: You try to add panels and storage,where ever you can,maybe you could build a support construction around or on sime sides of the house to have some bifacial's near ground,for ex. east/south or east/west, to cover longer hours of harvest.The second option would be a hybrid system with any other energy producer like wind or water.....The third option and maybe the most interesting and economic way,would be to get together with some neigbours and have a storage system installed which serves all.In this case you could concentrate on producing....and harvesting🤑Best regards Frank

Hi there ,other than reducing the import of chinese articles ,when at all possible ,we need to reduce heavily our OWN abuse of consuming and throwing away things....I for myself ,try but often fail,to buy stuff at least locally,if not from outside the country .I live in Italy and lots of what used to be produced(and well produced ) has been either moved to external production or the company has been sold to Chinese .

Hi there,I can control the switching of excess solar into my thermal-electrical water heater directly with my inverter .There's a relay card and from there I use 3 relays to swich a single heater with 3 elements,each one separately .As I couldn't find another inverter which does this,I brought my inverter "up to date" as it converted about 30MW and I was given the option either to change completely or change the parts which usually fail first,i.e. bus link filter caps,fans,relays etc....Frank

Hi everyone ,my name is frank,originally from germany,58 years old optical technician with 1 semester electrotechnics.I have been living in GB,east sussex for 12 years before returning to Germany ,ehen my mum died and then moved to italy with my partner.We opened an optician shop where I work as a technician .We are moulding our own lenses with liquid plastic which gets uv hardened ...I started pv with a little backup system,as we have got a wooden kitchen stove and the Italian grid is famous for its long lasting blackouts.I have now got a 2 string 8.5 kw solar power system which feeds an italian made Delios inverter and a diy 34 kw lifepo4 bank.I love walking in the mount with my dog enjoying a rather settled down live with my partner,having to got known some 27 years....Thanks for having me here and sharing some interesting views 🙏❤️