Alexphd1 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Since there has been no recent talk on PV immersion diverter units and i am in the market for one, i thought i would start a new thread. Not looking for anything to fancy, any feedback good or bad much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alphonsox Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 The commercial units all look ridiculously expensive for what they are. When I get the time i'm intending to build something along the lines that @JSHarrisdescribes in this thread https://openenergymonitor.org/forum-archive/node/2429.html. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 As a result of my personal experience with the company that took over the Immersun brand, I would not buy an Immersun or the other unit they manufacture. I found their attitude to customers of the company they bought out pretty poor (I know they would argue otherwise, and maybe they're great with their own customers, but this is my opinion based on my interaction with them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbJ Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Alphonsox said: The commercial units all look ridiculously expensive for what they are. I agree with this but decided my time was better spent doing other things than trying to build my one myself. I bought the cheapest unit I could find and it has been working well for 2 years or so without any problem. it is a unit made by SolarImmersion - see https://solarimmersion.co.uk/ Edited September 14, 2018 by HerbJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexphd1 Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 Much appreciated for Jeremy's link but that's way over my head, I think the over priced of the shelf route is more for me. Jack. Much appreciated, that's one scored of the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexphd1 Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) I have been eyeing up the solarimmersion linked by herbj and intelligent-immersion just because they where pretty cheap. Edited September 14, 2018 by Alexphd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 They all should be a heck of a lot cheaper than they are, as there's nothing close to rocket science in designing and building one. OK. this is stuff that I'm happy playing around with, but mine has been working faultlessly for well over three years, for around 1/10th the price of the commercial units that are available, and I can repair it myself quickly and easily if it ever does fail (I have a complete spare set of components for mine, so I can get it back running again within an hour or so if it ever fails). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Some of the commercial once are not that clever either. A near neighbour has one, I forgot the make (but NOT immersun) and I have repaired it twice. Carp design, 2 wires from the PCB to the SSR keep failing where they are soldered to a PCB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Look at the Apollo Gem and My Energi’s Eddi unit. Very versatile and the ME Zappi will sort the EV charging out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpmiller Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Bumping this for further opinion. I haven't seen it yet, but do any of these have the option of remote boost control? Simple boost button in kitchen/ hallway/ whatever, rather than having to go to plant room/ hotpress and negotiate menus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passivhybrid Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Solar iboost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjseb Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 We have an Apollo Gem that seems well built. Metal casing etc its on a 14kW system at work. We added a temperature probe to it. I’m about to have a holiday let built in our garden with solar. We’re getting two Gems so we can push excess solar (9kWp) to wither our house immersion or the holiday let immersion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hastings Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Amber Control unit is about £100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleighton Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 I fitted the Solic 200 last week, switched off the boiler this week and it has supplied pretty much all of my hot water needs. So far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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