Recent content by Fullerene

Same here, spent a long time trying to figure out what’s happening. I’m not feeling very confident if there was an incident it would end up being recorded. Anyone got an idiot’s guide? o_O

I think this is the case. With my normal base load of 200-300W I still see big voltage drops particularly when not sunny and in cold weather. With the graphs the only thing happening when that voltage dropped was my car charging, no other significant load. Apologies for partial thread...

yes, I’m end of the run, plus a lot of small homes on big plots on the way to me have been converted into sites with many massive homes, they all appear to have enormous heatpumps, which I am sure isn’t. The DNO hasn’t afaik upgraded any infrastructure. I think it’s really borderline, thinking...

my 2 cents - what time of day are you charging? Here's me yesterday, voltage drops and power is dialled down from 32A to 24A, I do see grid voltage dropping locally during peak times and I will get voltage warning on the various bits of kit in the house. Generally I wouldn't charge during...

have you tried services like this: How It Works | Rebtel.com Call a local number and they put your international call out. I used another service like this years ago. Hopefully you won’t be spending too long on the phone to Tesla :)

Nice balanced write up, the 40p/kWh with BP, is worst case; if you join the club you’ll get a discount that makes sense providing you use it regularly. Completely agree that starting from scratch now using an ICE in a car would be questionable. Last night whilst reading Clearing the Air by Tim...

That’s my spec except I coughed up for FSD, I ordered after you. I believe it was more to do with delivery location, but possibly FSD. Although Tesla get more cash for FSD they report car sales to the market as the headline figure. FSD must help their cashflow. Still can’t quite believe I have...

can you use Skype or similar to dial at a lower rate?

Yep, onboard computer needs to be running the whole time so it’s ~300W... I’ve reviewed some very dull footage with no real discernible picture change. Glad my SSD is super quick to copy would be nice to have trigger on ultrasonic, continuous record with post processing or similar.

Not at all.. If it makes somebody think about getting an EV when they see you out then that's even better :) I still love driving past the petrol stations :)

I think this is sensible - there's a limit to how much solar thermal anyone will use - though there was grand designs a while back that someone had many massive solar thermals units on a property. I thought this - however in practice it made no measurable difference. Awesome - this is what...

Everything a bit quiet in towbar land, any luck?

yeah - don't get me started (new thread required), I did my own CAD drawing for the installers as the ikea survey had my panels over the roof windows... They do look lovely - it looks like my roof is covered with the Metallica black album. You can overtilt panels, to improve solar collection...

According to data sheets as purchased my CIGS panels were something like 12% efficiency, I seem to recall modern mono crystalline panels being ~ 18% so hence the 50% more efficiency gain. Much to my annoyance my roof as it stands couldn't fit another panel on it :( I know somebody who was...

I know a local installer of powerwalls - he said Tesla have been bundling in a free TWC with power walls on some of the recent jobs he has done, may be worth asking :) My panels are 5 years old, new panels appear to be 50% more efficient.. The inverter magic and MPPT sort it all out. I'd...