Recent content by 73henny

What mileage are you at now?

Care to share what the bid was?

I'd guess a chunk of the cars are on brokerage.

Interesting Autotrader price. Makes me think the prices people are asking for their cars are pie in the sky and nowhere near reality unfortunately.

Similar for me - £38k. I need to decide what to do pretty sharpish. I'm doing way more business miles than I expected due to being very busy so might have to jump before my car's value is really trashed....

Prices are all over the place. Some private adds on autotrader are at higher money than dealers are selling the equivalent car for. They can't be selling for the prices they're asking. WBAC clearly don't want them, Motorway better but not great either. The next year might be very interesting or...

What did Motorway quote? Wonder where they'll be in another year?

Fuel duty rise in March might boost prices?

You have cheap rate from 21:30 to 05:30?

I think we're about 6 kWh per night for HW. But the payback is the difference between Go & export so 3p/kWh. 6666 units would take 1111 days, so 3 years. But that assumes there is 6 kWh spare each and every day which of course there won't be. The reality is a Solic200 might take more than 7...

Solar diverters like an Eddi - having had my solar panels for a couple of weeks, unless I'm missing something I can't see how these make any sense to be honest. Yes I know they can be convenient but given I can heat the HW on Go for 8p per unit, and get 5p per unit for export, a diverter would...

Not if the charge point is fitted indoors (integral garage) and is positioned where the cable won't allow the car to be charged outside.

My set up, installed yesterday. 5kW array & 6.5kW battery. So far so good with one or two teething problems. One of the strings isn't performing quite as well as the other. The installer came back today within an hour of me calling them and tested both strings and they're the same and fine, so...

Yes thats it. Integral garage and connector located where the car can only be charged inside is the only time you don't need a earth rod or PEN device. Makes sense as the car is essentially no different to the metal clad light switch or socket a garage will likely have.

See here and attached link (relative info about halfway down on the right) https://www.electricvehiclechargepoint.com/ev-resources/earthing