Have you got G99 DNO approval or a 3-phase connection? My understanding is that G98 is limited to 16A per phase which is a mere 3.68kW on a typical domestic single phase supply. My 16x435W due south facing panels overperformed only during their first year, now they're producing under 90% of the predicted amount and hardly ever export 3.6 kW in an hour. Even on the longest sunniest days, there aren't enough sunny daylight hours in the day to export 60 kWh in a day! The most I've ever exported in just 1 day (of the 1230 days I've had my installation) was 30.1 kWh and it achieved 3.6 kW only on the noon hour. To get your 59.1 kWh I would need 32 due south facing panels. My mind is blown, my panels would seem to be rubbish! I'm now tempted to add north facing panels on the basis of your positive experience but needing planning permission for the upgrade and potentially needing G99 approval and an export rate limiter make me question whether it would be a good investment. It has answered a question for me though. My inverter has a "self use>grid>battery" priority mode which I couldn't see a usage case for. Now I realise that it would apply when you have an export rate limiter and need to store your excess generation. Such a situation would justify expanding my battery capacity to be able to deliver 16A export throughout the 4-7pm peak pricing period, if the alternative would be throttling back generation earlier in the day or else dumping power into the immersion heater! The profit would not be the peak rate premium, it would be the full value of the electricity which could otherwise not be exported.

Looking at carbon off setting. If you have money to invest its good long term investment the payback will be better in others. Its a 30 year investment and the Ripple share can be passed on as part of your estate...

I think the part of the over generation compared to estimates is due to the higher hours of sunlight in Southampton compared to the rest of the uk. Southampton (1705) is more than Paris (1662) and is closer to Milan (1915) in terms of hours of sunshine per year than Manchester (1265). I imagine most estimates would be based on uk average amount of sunshine. I think most people underestimate the variation within the uk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Europe_by_sunshine_duration

If and when the grid goes down you will say dang I should have got some batteries. Look at the money you are making with extra export. Put that aside for batteries.

I want it!!!!

I'm 60, have cancer, but bought a Factory '23 Tuono 660 the day before I was informed!

Second hand teslas seem crazy good value on autotrader now.

How have you found sunsynk inverter? I've heard really bad things about their products.

Did you ever fix the dot and dab cold bridging? And how?

Would you say the crt is too loud for a daily bike? Will it be to loud for the rider?

Ive had a north facing array for several years now & its consistently performed well at about 50%, like for like, compared to my south facing aspect. I have a complex roof line and just about to “go big” on my other, larger, north facing roof. My figures for may were 1480 kWh generated with 390 kWh exported, so hopefully I can increase on that somewhat. Keep up the good work 👍

Very good. I am thinking about installing some north facing panels,....just to clarify, per panel you said (4.30)49/60 (= 81%), you then later (6.40) said it was 68% on a per panel comparison. Are these different measurements?

I always think it is odd people seem to think about what they are spending rather than the outcome - we have no children, but invested in all four of the Ripple projects so far also have a solar PV (but no battery as its a small system)

If you are happy to give yourself an interest free loan, and not be bothered when you pay it off, then batteries make sense, but if your invested £ has to compete with other forms of investment, then maximise the solar, because you will seldom recover the investment over the life of the battery. The only case I can see is if you are prone to power outages, and then it's insurance, not savings I'm waiting on DNO approval on 3.7kp South and 3.7 North on a 22 degree roof, (no battery) so I hope I get the same excellent results as you ! Thanks for sharing

What are you using for data collection . Is it open source energy or is it a package that comes with theTigo ?

It's interesting that I have a 9.95 kWp system in Colorado and my best day in May was also 59 kWh. We get more sunny days so the month was 1420 kWh. We got a battery for backup power mostly.

Great video. I moved to Intelligent Octopus Go last month with an EV charger install to access the 7.5p overnight import rate and 6 hours (instead of 14.9p and 3 hours on Flux). I do same with dishwasher etc pushing into lower rate overnight period. The impact of this change resulted in 50% reduction in import but same export so increasing profitability overall. I charge a 13.5kw battery full overnight then let the sun keep this topped up during the day exporting any excess, then from 5pm to 6.30pm fully discharge export the battery to take advantage of peak rate export. Have had this running for last month and my analytics suggest only December and January will be months that are not profitable.

Just worked out my own costs: I paid £15.23 for 112.55 kWh in May, so 13.5p per kWh. So I "saved" 1.4p vs your 14.9p using a battery. I live in London so similar insolation to you. We are also a family of 5 and we use Agile too. Let's say my Tesla Powerwall costs £6000 (including installation), has 10kWh usable charge, the warranty is 10 years and is fully charged/discharged once a day. That gives me a battery usage charge of 16p per kWh. It'll probably last 20 years, so it'll be 8p per kWh. It is the summer, and perhaps I'll get more than one charge/discharge per day in winter. We'll see. Not looking like a great investment so far. EDIT: of course, if I compare it to the price cap, or the flexible tariff (about 25p per kWh) it does look good.

I have a battery, and I'm on Agile too, so I'll be getting slightly lower rates because I'm not paying the peak rate. The benefits are marginal. In my view it's only worth investing in a battery if there isn't a better option for that money. I have noticed that many of the people talking up batteries, or saying how much savings that they're getting, are ignoring the lifetime cost per kWh of the battery in their calculations.

1135kwh thats good , i just had a look at may and with my 32 panels facing E S & W i only got 669kwh . i dont know why im so low im not far from you .59kwh in a day , i can never get more than just under 40

The Battery is actually a god send, mine charges at 2am until 4am with cheap electric, then I charge again from 1-4pm. It then covers cooking etc through the peak rate. it also disperses to the grid at 8:30am after everyone has gone to work/school so we get a small increase in exports set to grid first from 8:30-13:30. My system is small in comparison but once I figured out the battery strategy then it does work out better. Because of the sheer amount you can draw in off your system in panels might make it worth while not to have a battery but then you won't know for sure until you buy one to see if the benefits would be similar to mine. This is just an opinion from an owner of a small solar panel system(4kw.). I knew I was never going to be able to make myself completely self sufficient but I just wanted to take down my monthly bills and tbh its worked well so far.

I’ve now had my 18-panel SE-facing 7.74 kWh system with 8.06 kWh battery up and running for almost 3 weeks (also installed by Martin of Dorset Solar Solutions). I am astonished by the figures and apart from trickle-in from the grid and charging my EV, we’ve been self-sufficient since the day of installation, with only a shall amount of gas used for cooking. Can’t wait to start exporting! By the way, I’ve also set up detailed reporting through Home Assistant which is way better than the proprietary apps. Have you done this?

I had my worst May since my panels were installed in December 2015, generated just 1035 this May, that's with 8.74 kWp of panels. So you did well. I still think you are missing a lot of tricks without a battery, especially when it's so easy to connect one to your inverter, and so cheap. Can't remember if your on Agile but prices are negative today, turn the solar off and get paid 9.5p kWh to use electric.

The rationale for or against a battery depends on the export tariff. I have a 12 year old generation tariff with no metered export tariff. In this case I want to minimise PV export (as I don’t get paid for it).

Very impressive for a N facing. I have roughly the same as you (20 x 450 panels) but all fully S facing (though 8 are partially to fully shaded before 10 and after 2*) I got 834 PV compared to your 1135. I wonder if weather also has something to do with it, it was a dismal May, maybe better where you are though I am also southern UK? The main thing I hadnt considered is clipping to the 5kW inverter, on very sunny days i am getting clipping between 10-3 or my generation would be higher .. It looks like you arent getting that at all which helps. Also on non sunny days the N facing performs quite well due to scattered light I suspect? Currently my export is running at 85% of generation. * you might ask why i got them, the reason is they are on a garage roof so minimal scaffolding and i essentially only paid for the panels, the install cost was covered by the 12 on my house roof.

Your solar generation for May is outstanding considering the Met Office monthly report for sunshine hours in the UK is stating May was only 82% of the norm (26th dullest on record).

Fab result. It's nice when the gamble pays off regarding loading as many panels as viable/ possible. It's our first summer with our PV here up north in Leeds. The setup: 10kw solaredge, 15xSW/9xSE Panels. 24kwh battery. We managed 1148kwh total produced. 238kwh to home. 152kwh to battery. 758kwh to grid (£114 @ 15p/kwh). Battery to home 198kwh. Battery to grid 490kwh (£73 @ 15p/kwh). The economics for battery storage are tough depending on circumstances and how energy prices track long term. we definitely want a comfortable/ affordable winter (11kw heatpump!)... would we have built up enough credit to see us through the winter? If we had 1:1 net metering like they have in the states we probably wouldnt have got batterys to be fair. Another way to look at it is we're helping the grid during peak hrs and the grid is helping us off peak. Anyway lets see what June has to offer...maybe 1.4+ mwh? !!!

Our roof space is really large but it is true north facing, so I guess you're benefiting from the west orientation? Our South roof has a huge dormer on it

Superb normal wafflage resumes 😂👍 great video

I have a battery and am on Octopus Intelligent. I charge my battery at 7p and run off that all day, any solar is sold at 15p. For me the battery makes the solar expensive (as the battery 1/4’s my electricity bill). The only reason I had solar is because it reduced the vat on my battery. 😂 After seeing your videos I am now tempted to instal solar on my North roof as I have a spare input on my inverter.

Excellent concise video and proof of concept.

I tried to remove it and I couldn't. I unscrewed the nuts but I can't get the db killer out

Will never work in a month a Sundays, good job though

How do you compare this motorcycle to a Thruxton RS

Was my impression that you can export at 15p and still be on inteligent oct go at 7.5 p for 6 hours ? This is what EV puzzle does with his setup ?

Good videos - the 1.75 Cop on the cylinder is a generic figure that is to be quoted from a SAP table

Really enjoyed the video. Will definitely be getting a pair for the rear of my trike. But how do I know which relay to get please?

Thanks for all the informative videos. Decided to give Octopus a go so you should get a referral in a little bit! Enjoy!

Robert from fully charged has the Tepco himself and seems really pleased with it

Nothing beats the sunsynk/deye inverter. Nothing. Back up service is insanely good too and 24/7. You sound unsure. You should ask installers that have experience with different types of inverters. We love the sunsynk or deye inverters as we install commission and walk away. They take some time to understand with the myriad of settings for all types of applications. But once understood, they are.an.easy install. Work well with prepaid meters and can be set for different feedback or not scenarios.

Wow that NW facing array is doing surprisingly well. Maybe closer to west than north? Great vid! Really nice to see someone sharing some real numbers. Observing the shade at 3:08 and the final position at 4:45 I couldn't help but think there might be a few extra units to be found by mounting it a few cm further to the right. But seriously happy for your numbers. My best day in April was 30th on a south facing roof. Looking forward to seeing how you get on in May

I paid £2000 around 2 years ago for a share on Kirk hill wind farm, it's recently just started generating. Payments will be applied to my bill within the next couple of months. I've lost more than this in bad investments in the past 😂

We've got a 6.8kWp DC coupled solar array, 14.4kWh Pylontech battery bank and 5kVA Victron hybrid inverter and can say with 100% confidence that the battery bank is absolutely key to the overall system performance and economic viability. So much so that we actually bought the batteries and inverter first and added the solar array later. Some things that are important to us that I don't think you mentioned: - We live in the countryside fed by overhead high voltage lines and get power cuts a handful of times every year. Having battery storage means we don't even notice those outages most of the time. - Our solar array is 6.8kWp but our inverter can only export 4kW, so the batteries allow us to capture more solar energy than we can export. This makes a large difference to overall solar capture in the summer months. - As EV owners, we qualify for the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff where we import at 7.5p off peak for at least 6 hours a day and export at 15p/kWh at all times. This opens up a lot of opportunity to save or even MAKE money. We're having a heat pump installed this coming week and that will increase our electrical energy demand at the same time as it eliminates our oil demand. I will be buying a 4th battery module to take our total storage capacity to 19.2kWh because my own calculations show that this will further increase savings. Those same calculations show an overall payback period of all my renewable gear at 5-6 years worst case which I hope to improve upon but will be very happy with.

Well on your recommendation I bought & fitted my Oxford Horizons last night, to my Z900 & I did about 200 miles around North Wales today, absolutely fantastic clear rear views from both sides, I fitted the two as it looked unbalanced with only one, I had many positive comments on the look of them etc & I think I’ve boosted Oxfords profits! To complete my fit I nipped to my local bicycle shop & bought a couple of 9mm (£2 the pair) spacers & as the diameter was a little large I super glued them to the flat face of the mirror mount, they worked a treat, you can buy adaptors online for about £17+ ☹️I also put a little Loctite on the threads of the bolts so no movement. The old mirror holes I plugged using the inners off 2 large plastic body trim clips or bungs just snipped the tips off. Good luck everyone

If one needs to run a higher flow temperature due to design of radiators and lack of insulation is the COP any better? Also,are they any quieter?

Hi bought the new gsx 8s in November recently had a gsx s1000 as a courtesy bike 🎉 not as terrifying as I expected in my head being the first 1000 I've ever rode. Was surprised how easy going to ride it was.

Change your click bate title please , most people won’t watch your video and just have the option it’s a crap product which it isn’t . Aren’t you supposed to be a supporter of greener tech n9t all this false news

I have put solar panels on my house - that's my summer power needs taken care of. If I add an investment in a wind farm, then my winter energy needs would be taken care of. All I need now is to invest in some grid scale battery and I've hit all of the critical parts of the electric energy infrastructure.

Size of those 2 rads in such a small space. Horrendous. Why anyone gives BG custom is beyond me. Terrible outfit. If ever there was a video to put you off getting a ASHP..

Awesome review/ torture test! I think I will be adding this to my camping kit.