Heatable's TOP PICKS for Best Batteries Revealed

[@NicolasRaimo]

Battery And Solar Evnick.com/heatable EVNICK150 for £150 off Battery only evnick.com/heatable/battery EVNICK75 for £75 off

[@rico4229]

Hi Nick , can you explain which payments you get from Alpha over the winter for Grid support. I've got an Alpha Smile 5 and I can't find any information on this scheme.

[@NicolasRaimo]

@ I manually schedule mine with octopus point system

[@rico4229]

@@NicolasRaimo oh ok , cheers. . like the Power Up scheme etc? ... I did use that last winter too , not so good this winter.. 🤔

[@smeg3519]

I insist my battery looks gorgeous, I sit in my garage every Sunday with the family looking at it and talking about it over a beer 🍺

[@Brijoolz]

About to have Tesla PW3 and solar installed with Heatable. Sounds like it’s the right choice.

[@NicolasRaimo]

Hope you used my code

[@imraniqbal4447]

How did it all go for you? Thanks

[@Brijoolz]

@ not in yet. Survey today by the installer. Been awaiting go ahead for G99 from DNO.

[@imraniqbal4447]

@ how long you been waiting overall? I’m in similar boat, waiting for DNO/northern power grid

[@PiratesBlackVTi]

Hi what’s this software that heatable are making for battery’s sounds very interesting

[@drreality1]

Thanks Nick, interesting talk. which of these systems support local API that can be hooked to home assistant?

[@NicolasRaimo]

So all support home assistant regarding local support I think Enphase -

[@drreality1]

@ amazing, thanks for this Nick 🤗

[@PiratesBlackVTi]

Good video 👍

[@michaelgreen5515]

Unfortunately they dont cover Northern ireland just the mainland.

[@dogmangreengrass736]

i live in a hamlet . 3 power cuts the other sunday .

[@Geordie023]

I’m thinking of getting a battery but currently get a FIT payment so don’t know if getting a battery would affect that.

[@NicolasRaimo]

We spoke about this on this and last video and answer is No it wouldn’t your free to get a battery and keep fit

[@Geordie023]

@@NicolasRaimoexcellent, I must admit I didn’t watch all this video as I was at IKEA etc most of the day. I’ll watch the rest tonight. 👍🏼😊

[@WyndStryke]

@@Geordie023 The main thing is to use an A/C coupled battery so that the battery does not affect the FIT system's generation meter (or a DC coupled battery that is connected to it's own array, and not connected to the FIT array, and hence also not affecting the FIT system's generation meter).

[@NckBrktt]

Heatable's web site give examples of tariffs for batteries and their website extols the virtues of time of use tariffs, but as far as I can see they either require you to have solar panels or an EV (Octopus GO , Flux, BGas EV driver). Where are the battery only tariffs ? Can we go with Eco 7 ?

[@NicolasRaimo]

Octopus don’t check on GO, and I believe flux is for batteries and there’s a deal for givenergy batteries go to evnick.com/energy more info

[@WyndStryke]

Not sure about the Tesla warranty when it comes to energy trading - it sounds like it falls back to 37.8MWh if the battery is used for anything other than basic operations. It is unlimited cycles if all you do is solar self-consumption, time-based control, or home backup. If you do arbitrage, my reading of the warranty is that your limit becomes 37.8MWh instead (0.76 cycles daily). The GivEnergy warranty has a similar clause, but with a much higher limit (10MWh per 1kWh of battery capacity, which is 2.7 cycles daily for 12 years, or unlimited if you don't do any arbitrage. Having said that, I do agree that people can get overly focussed on the warranty when they are figuring out the operational cost of the battery. Usually the battery is still working fine, even if you cycle it more than the warranty allows.

[@edc1569]

Givenergy warranty 12,000 cycles!? Not sure that’s possible for LFP chemistry.

[@WyndStryke]

@@edc1569 Unlimited cycles if not doing arbitrage (12 years). Ditto with the Tesla battery (only 10 years though). I think they are betting that few people will do enough cycles to kill it. The number of cycles that a battery can sustain is affected by how large the buffer is, the temperature, SOC and charge speed. If those factors are well controlled (for example, with loads of spare cells, temperature control, and a low charge speed) then the degradation is much less.

[@ghost70]

Nice to see you & myself made the right choice on batteries with the Alpha. Funnily enough when he said Alpha experience is great, did you experience the recent App outage which meant it was down for around a week due to a migration ?? How are you discharging you Alpha as i dont have that option on the software.

[@NicolasRaimo]

Yep mine went down but worked as normal in background as it remembered settings. Mine allows discharge under settings/// Feed-in Control and turn it on.

[@ghost70]

@@NicolasRaimo Must have diff systems then mine only has Charge times / Batt discharge time control & UPS mode which is not a UPS just specific charging

[@NicolasRaimo]

@ b3 is mine, who installed it? Assume it’s an early model?

[@chriswalker7357]

I had to contact Alpha and request the forced discharge feature to be switched on which they did. It’s a bit of a faff to use but does work once set up. I emailed the request via their website and someone got back to me the same day. Great customer service. Hope this helps.

[@MattyFreedom]

Fogstar are the value proposition.

[@dogmangreengrass736]

anyone can give you longer warranty, but you have to look at price .

[@section8s]

Filled in online form with Heatable, got email and then rang me. Waited a few days, then I rang back, sales representative was in Spain, said he was going to get someone to contact me. Waiting nearly two weeks now, just been ghosted. I was considering the possibility of buying two batteries.

[@NicolasRaimo]

I’ve texted Ben about this he’s extremely un happy this has happened to you can I get your full name so he can trace it back and ensure this doesn’t or hasn’t happened to anyone else

[@section8s]

@@NicolasRaimo Heatable have now contacted me, cheers