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Wouldn’t mind a couple of Dali dimmers. Can pay you through PayPal. PM sent Thank you for the kind offer

That looks braw

Just spoke to Eon, They said the new meter has to be fitted by a MCS registered installer, also my last 3 months generation will not be paid and is lost. Ah well that phone call didn’t go as well as I had hoped.

Just remembered my mate who is also a spark, had a system installed by the same company, I have just phoned him and asked him to describe the install, he went into his meter cupboard and said” DNO meter to Henley to Generation meter to solar consumer unit to isolator” I said same as mine, now look at your block diagram, he said “ahhh it’s different, never noticed that”. I told him I never noticed on mine either. Every day is a school day.

Standard 110mm drainage pipe comes in 3 m lengths about £20 a length from memory, that is what is usually used forgoing through the wall for extractors. Easy to join together. Loads of places sell it.

Just checked the documentation and the block diagram is correct, it is, as suggested the installation that is wrong, I will correct it when I change the meter, just waiting on Eon getting back to my email. Going to have a check of another install that the same MCS spark and see if he did the same thing, will be a couple of weeks time mmm.

That was the way the MCS spark installed it 10 years ago and to be honest I never paid it much attention until now and being a spark (retired) I suppose I should have. When It is time for the meter change guess I will do a bit of additional alterations then. Need to go try find the supplied paperwork as I recall there was a block diagram with it, wonder if that tallies with what they should have done or what they actually did.

Mmmmm the way mine has been installed is DNO meter to Henley Block to Generation Meter to small Solar consumer unit with RCD and mcb to inverter isolator, to 2nd inverter isolator in loft to inverter. The Henley block also feeds the house consumer unit. So not that easy to totally isolate.

It is true about next to nowt generation just now, so right time of any for it to fail. Re totally isolating not that easy as the MCB and isolators are on the solar side of the meter, the other side is tied into the house meter via a couple of Henley’s.

Cheers Dave. Yip Dropped EON an email. Time to start searching web for a new meter then.

The RCD will trip if your neutral and earth touch even with the mcb switched off.

This might be one for @ProDave or anyone else that has had this problem. Went to take my quarterly FIT meter reading and found my generation meter Elster A100C is just flashing 888888888. My sunnyboy monitor shows I am still generating. What is the procedure next, is it a case of changing my meter myself? What happens re generated units for the last quarter and the new reading? What is a good meter to replace it with? I have also dropped Eon my fit provider an email to tell them my meter is not playing. cheers folks

John, have you looked on the Sweeney Kincaid website, there is about 9 scaffold towers for sale by auction in Wishaw. The ones that have bids on just now also have a Red Cross at them showing that reserve is not met. Remember if you do decide to bid that you need to factor in an additional payment of roughly 35% to cover VAT and fees, also remember that item are sold as seen, I have bought a few duffers but that’s the risk. If you have any issues on navigating the site or questions on it give me a shout as I use it quite a lot.

Easily, no problem at all, put nail as close to the hinge part of the pliers as possible.

We must have been posh as ours were made from galvy steel, still bothers me the most out of of the tools I have had nicked over the years that some thieving **’£#@ nicked my apprentice tool box. I went to Jewel and Esk college for 6 months on a course in the very early 90’s. They had a planetarium which was very interesting.

Found some of mine, including a centre finder?

@Onoff what’s the item next to the toolmaker clamp that looks like a rectangular branding iron?

Thanks onoff! ? Going to have to try and find some of my test pieces now, some of them were stolen as they were in my toolbox that I made as an apprentice as well.

I remember making them along with a drill sharpening angle gauge, a drill vice in the milling machine, a jack on the lathe and a chisel at the forge, I very much enjoyed the 1st year of apprenticeship when you got to learn loads of new skills and to within quite fine tolerances, can’t believe it was 40 years ago.

There is never enough room inside a consumer unit to fit Henley’s or any other fancy type of DIN rail connector, that would mean 6 x 25mm Meter tails inside a consumer unit, nope no chance, plus the consumer unit won’t be type tested for that (not manufacturer certified).

Couple of points from what I can see: Drawing says 20A supply yet your PV is on a 16A MCB, no big deal just a point. Not a fan on the PV being connected onto an RCD that feeds other circuits, as in my mind it will effect the disconnection times of the RCD in the event of a fault, you are not alone in the installation being done this way, it appeared to be a common way of doing it, I personally just don’t like it. Regards to what you are asking in your post, if you are using less energy than you are generating then the excess will go to grid. In my case the base load of my house without putting anything extra on is about 200W (router, digital clocks etc.) last week at any moment in time I was hardly generating more than 100W as it was so dull, so at no point was my generation greater than my usage. I have fitted a solar diverter so that if my generation is greater than usage the surplus goes to a heater in a north facing always cold room and not to grid.

Yip agree, M10 or M12 depending on weight of gate

House looks braw, well done As you did it yourself, what would you have done differently?

It turned out well though, and again fair play to them as they put the effort in.

I’ve used 12mm ply usually mounting on a 3 sided frame made out of surplus 50x25mm tile batten. As onoff says the standing off allows cables to go into the back of the consumer unit.