Disappointing that this seems to have displaced a much better video on this issue. Frustratingly, it offers no guidance on arguably the hardest part of the whole process: opening up the disc itself. Secondly it advises the removal of the PCB, something that I have NEVER had to resort to, even when one of the the pivoting internal attachments for the foot fell out.

Cheers for this mate. I needed to confirm if container was only half filled for descale, because the vid from the Tassimo website shows to half fill and add tablets but then shows them placing a full container back into the back.. I was like wait a min, that was only half full a sec ago.

For me it makes no financial sense to use solar for DHW (outside of any 1 hour 'free' electricity period) when compared to export revenue. I appreciate that not everyone has a gas connection though. My solar results for August (NW Lincolnshire): Production: 1,002 kWh (103.4% of Target Average) Export: 847 kWh - £135.61 Import: 336 kWh - £43.62 Gas (DHW + Hob): 120 kWh - £5.65 Gas (DWH only): 97.2 kWh - £4.77 Gas (Hob only): 22.8 kWh - £0.88 It is only the second time this year I have exceeded the target average so August was a reasonable month.

Do you find the stats shown by SolarEdge to anywhere close to accurate? My SolarEdge system produces numbers that make no sense to me. For example, right now my SE Dashboard shows 45.57 kWh of production over the 2 and a bit days of this month. If I look at the cumulative graph it only shows 23.02 kWh for this month. This disparity will continue as at the end of calendar day a number of production kWh will vanish from the accumulated day figure when applied to the monthly running total. Looking at the SolarEdge data compared to the Octopus meter readings is equally odd. In August the SolarEdge app (or web portal) shows an export of 640 kWh to the grid. However, according to Octopus and my meter reading I actually exported 847 kWh, which is 32% greater.

For comparison, 20 x 450 panels, all S facing, 8 heavily shaded half the day, 12 no shade. August PV 848, exported 723. Would be more but i get a lot of clipping on sunny days, due to max 5kw inverter.

I'll have to check out your "saver" video but i was entirely unable to use them, i think three of the sessions i had 5Kw solar being produced at the time so id have had to completely run my battery down previously (maybe put into car by setting it on a low rate otherwise id be drawing rom mains at peak) , then in the one hour period i could charge my car and fill the battery but the solar would do that also so thats 7.5 for car 3.5 for battery, minus 5 for solar which is 6kWh, but thats only replacing overnight tariff at 7p so Id save 42p.

I stopped using my Eddi over 12 months ago. Much Cheaper to heat water on gas and export all solar at 15p. Not sure why you are not doing the same.

7.6 kw array west facing in Somerset 680kw 2024 & 2023 696kw if your array was 7.6 kw you would of generated over 1150 kw just goes to show how important a south facing array are !!!!! keep up the reports I really enjoy seeing what you generate each month

I’m not a million miles away from you in Bedford but my 14x 400w Sunpower panels SE facing with 5kw SolarEdge inverter only managed 635kwh this year. 631kwh in 2023 and 727 in 2022! I have two GivEnergy inverters each with its own battery (17kwh total) and have been exporting my battery stored energy down to 4% each evening. Energy costs are Octopus Electric export credit £91.68 Electricity bill £69.57 Gas usage £21.68 Total energy costs £91.25-£91.68= -£0.43

How accurate is it , sir?

hi there, how about ESPHome on it? did you try flashing? all my other Sonoff devices already flashed to ESPHome - wandering if this is possible too

Do you know if this cooler contains gas, could I take it abroad in my checked luggage?

I think SW280, REW45-12 or NPW45-12 are better matches made by Yuasa as they're high rate discharge batteries whilst the NP7-12 is not, but it probably won't make much difference if the load is not too heavy.

Copper phone lines are now being phased out. We have already been moved over to digital phone service delivery. Just imagine how much money they will gain through recovery of all the street copper.

Que pastilla es esa que echa al agua? Si no pones esa pastilla que se le puede poner en su lugar??

There’s also a small reader where you put the capsules, what reads the barcodes etc. give that a wipe if yours isn’t working

They don’t take copper out they just reuse it and any phone works with digital line

I have a condition where I need to take everything apart. You've saved me breaking something.

Nice video mate

Thank you!

How’s that irrigation valve working out? Mine is rubbish. Connects to Zigbee2MQTT but messaging only one way so can’t actually turn it on or off remotely.

I think I’ve lost about 5 miles to the ether. 2015 with 88000

This company is not allowed to carry on regulated activities by Financial Services Authority, Look it up.

Sky broadband is brilliant nothing to much trouble a first class broadband service

Charged the car and home batteries - 10.3kWh used x 7p = 72p saved. Did anyone else notice that we were still importing 3.9GW from Europe during the same hour, also, the unit rate was minus -£5.95/MWH. Does that mean Octopus gave us free electricity but made money for giving it away?

I just put a hot wash on, ran the dehumidifier, had a heater on in the lounge (it's cold here), put the immersion on, charged my solar generator (only 200 watts). Used about 60-70p. You are helping balance the grid and I guess it's a bit of an experiment to see how people respond. If it prevents curtailment then it's saving money somewhere along the line.

Informative video as usual Daniel. I exported my battery to the grid earlier in the morning when the import rates (agile) were still higher, I feel better about that as the grid would be less green. I then set my invertor to prioritise export. At 1pm the battery was set to charge, dishwasher and immersion heater on, so I was drawing about 7kWh. It wasn't that sunny only about 1kWh coming in off the PV. If it had been sunny the PV DC to battery would have cancelled out my export, and again it wouldn't have been worth the trouble. I probably netted about 75p

Thanks for the heads up! I managed to get 6.6kWh into my car which is ~22mi, all completely free :) lovely jubbly!

Charged car and had dishwasher and washing on as well as cooking. Had put battery to 100 % to stop it charging car. Accepted Solar was reducing power used. Look forward to hearing how it goes as usually consume from batteries during day. Cheers Andrew

I usually run the house on the solar/battery during the day, but it was quite overcast so my battery was at about 80% and solar not generating much. I charged the car which was at about 70% and took it up to 90% and charged the home battery up to 100%, the dishwasher and washing machine both came on and did a cycle. I cooked my lunch at the same time. Not a lot of money saved but it all helps.

Be useful to know when you have the results how much electricity you used and how much money you actually made.

Not so attractive to those of us on the agile rate, the two half hour rates for me was 4.19p & 3.17p/kwh, so close to free anyway. I’m more interested in when I get negative rates.

Just a thought - you’re pricing your savings at the lower rate but the price of electricity between 1 and 2 would be at the peak rate and that’s what you should get back. Your savings therefore will be a lot higher.

Don't forget that if you have solar and are on say IOG you will usually be exporting at that time. So in fact the baseline Octopus will look at should be negative. So a few pennies more than your calculations.

I have a Solis inverter, and the app is just too clunky to bother changing the schedule for a pound or so. The problem here is that many of the people who can benefit from this (with an EV and home battery) already have solar, and are getting pretty cheap power already.

make sure you don't overload your incoming main fuse, normally 100A. Best not to go over 80A. 😬

Thanks for getting this out in time to be useful.

For me there is no need to strain my inverter so much, so I'll discharge my battery before at 2-3kw for a couple of hours, and then switch to solar charge for an hour or two, before then charging the battery flat out for an hour, there is no need to go straight from max discharge to max charge.

Thanks for the information But what about the VAT you will pay for all the extra KW?

I looked back a few weeks used 0kwh during those times apart from few days ago when prices went negative on Agile so I wonder how they going to work that out. But during the hour would have cost me 0.0419p and 0.0317p, guess I'll get home assistant to charge in the hour and turn off my solar panels. Solar forcast not looking too good either so good timing

Well I don't have an electric car or a battery so will struggle to use up a decent amount. Worse is I'm on Agile and the average over the hour is 3.5p/kWh. An hour isn't enough to run a full washing machine cycle or dishwasher cycle. So at best I'll probably use 2kWh extra or about 7p profit. Once you take into account the washing liquid and the dishwasher tablet it's not worth putting them on unless you planned to do a wash anyway. So on the face of it "free electric" there isn't much to be had, well for me at least.

Do the opposite to a saving session so force discharge in the 2 hours before and recharge in the free hour and the car

I have a GivEnergy system can I divert the solar straight to the grid in this session

We are on Octopus Go Intelligent so our import would be a 22.7p, it’s supposed to be cloudy here tomorrow so say solar gain is 1 kw, one hour with our 7kw EV charger would at a maximum put 6 kw of “free electricity into the car. We could do a tumble load perhaps 1 kw so a total of 7kw. We normally run off the battery with no grid use so no normal import. 7x22.7p =1.58.9p. Is it worth it?, it depends if you want to change battery sessions, switch the Zappi to Boost and help the grid. Monetarily it isn’t going to make much difference over a year. However, it’s the thought given by Octopus to actually do this that is important. Our EV could take some charge tomorrow so we have signed up just to see how it goes.

Thanks Daniel. I will be doing similar to you. Just for fun, there's not much profit Gas boiler for hot water has just now been switched off (normally runs every morning for 1 hour) and instead I will run my Eddi 1-2pm saving 9kWh x 4.35p/kWh of gas = 39.15p. I will charge my car saving 7.4kW x 7p/kWh = 51.8p. I will discharge my battery for 51 minutes in advance (remembering 15% round trip loss) earning 3kW x 0.85h x 15p/kWh = 45p and I will then recharge it for nothing during the next hour However, I will probably wipe out up to 6.5kWh (based on sunny Tuesday) of PV export, losing me 6.5kWh x 15p/kWh = 97.5p of export income Net gain is 39.15 + 51.8 + 38.25 - 97.5 = 31.7p whoopee!

No email for me (Octopus Flux and signed-up). I would have done a dishwasher hot cycle, perhaps a washing machine quick wash, force an early export/recharge for the battery and use the immersion heater for the first time ever.

Will be discharging battery (can export 6kW minus household load) approx 5.8kWhs and charging during the "free hour". Unfortunately the "free hour" coincides with the highest solar gain so fingers crossed it is overcast and can make a modest financial gain.

I got that e-mail as well. I'm really not sure if it's worth all the hassle changing all my schedules to max out the saving for just a 1 hour period at a time when we typically don't use a great deal of power &, whatever we do use is coming from batteries / solar. We do have an EV but it's just too much to consider for very little return plus, a fair chance I'll get something wrong which will land up costing me instead of saving me money!

I have 5 Problems with the reolink camera. 1. The install voice is way to loud and can not be stopped. 2. The Chime/gong is not sold sepradly. 3. I get false Alarms fro Cars driving by although i blocked the street to be ignored. 4. There is NO possibility to open the door. why is that? 5. If someone rings it takes 5 seconds in the app till the picture is visible.

Red light is still flashing, but no water is coming through.