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thick and fast. If they can get a reliable, relatively short notice 500MW that'd be a pretty good win for when marginal generation is needed.

is the next/previous button supposed to skip between favourites? I thougth it used to but these days it just seems to jump to the next station on the DAB list. So eg Radio 1/2/3/4/5 rather than skipping from 2-6 which is the next favourite I have.

its possible they can't read your export meter?

My wife has done a double tumble dry so I was expecting to run out of juice by end of day anyway. I'd welcome using some peak rate to export some of it to just balance my day out at a lower average rate.

quite - as my experience on the 29th shows (thanks octopus). But the poster said they weren’t pushing back to the grid

how did you push back 3kwh if you didn't push back to the grid? fyi Givenergy worked for me. I don't have SEG but octopus gave me my export MPAN number (if you have a smart meter you should have one) and that worked. Octopus couldn't use it as they require an export tariff in place but that...

check a youtube video of how to replace a cylinder. You almost can't go wrong. I was surprised how easy it was. And if you buy the wrong size replacement from amazon you can just put the old one back. Takes 5 mins. The main thing looking for a replacement is measuring from the screw hole in...

Loop/bright etc apps seem to be able to access my half hourly import data just fine with me checking a simple box. Givenergy/Axel do seem to be able to access the export MPAN data externally but seems you need a SEG for it to be fully active? so still plenty of data sharing going on (with...

Octopus said they can't measure my export uniless I have a SEG setup with them. Even though they can see my export MPAN and confirm its active. That seems stupid. It means if you have a home storage battery but no solar, you're unable to take part (well unable to benefit from it, you coudl still...

What do we think the average home use is for 90 mins in the late afternoon/early evening? Maybe 1kwh? Perhaps less but if 1kwh then each person fully discharging an average 3kw battery could be helping remove 4-5 other homes from grid demand?

well so far they’ve kept them relatively outside of full peak time - perhaps recognising that being difficult to curtail demand so better to try and reduce it earlier in the evening? Many will be able to push dinner until after 6:30

this is genuinely interesting. There are likely an order of magnitude fewer people with home storage batteries, but they can potentially push out quite a bit more than individuals just cutting back use, so they could be pretty useful

makes a change from last years ‘who can post a photo from the darkest house with a candle in the window’ :) Heck I’m exporting and I doubt I’ll even get paid for it. Luickly the solar today helped me start with 95% so fingers crossed I can dump 5kwh into the grid and still squeak to 23:30...

I'm doing the same although don't know if it'll work with my system. We'll find out. Relatively low risk, we've had a decent solar day

headliner is probably worse than just sliding your finger on the screen. The auto guessing game is worse still. Any kind of multiple direction change like parallel parking or three point turn will be a PITA with any of those options vs keeping your eyes on the surroundings and just moving a...

you wouldn't. FIT pays solely on generation through a generation meter. It doesn't care how much you export or import. You could self-consume 100% of the solar and still get the FIT payment (from government pov its still reducing net demand by that many kwh I guess?) Deemed export uses the...

I think they ended the TEP. They now have a similar thing with givenergy though.

if you have FIT, my understanding is they don't use the export meter at all. They have a separately monitored generation meter to send info on generation (for FIT payments) and deemed exports (only needs generation data). The export meter (if you have a smart meter) will be picking up both...

cylinder was surprisingly easy to replace. open your door and there is a small screw that releases it and you can just pull it out. The main complexity is the ratio of distance between front and back of the door - so that when you put the new one in its the right length and that screw hole lines...

£5.33/kwh apparently

octopus have found my export MPAN number, don’t know if that means its ‘active’. Does anyone know if octopus can also do it this way (wtihout a specific export contract/SEG)? I’d prefer to keep with them as then the credit will go against my bill

Givenergy/Axel just emailed to say they can’t see my MPAN export meter. Maybe it was never activated? The old solar array has a separate generation meter

oh thats a nice way of looking at it

does it require a SEG agreement with Octopus or is it entirely decoupled like the givenergy/axel scheme? I don’t have SEG set up with anyone but I could discharge my battery. if I can discharge 4Kwh in the 90 minutes that’d be about my weeks electric bill I think

my first test hopefully with GivBack. Worst case I'll have shoved 4kwh down the pan and I'll run the rest of the evening on fumes. Did GivBack say they'll also cover the value of the peak rate if they charge the battery in advance? or is that factored into the export rate they offer? Although...

I don't have spare keys hidden in the garden or in a key safe, but we do have ones in both car gloveboxes, and at least for my tesla I can remote unlock that if someone else like my kids needs to get in. They also have physical keys. So it starts to get pretty edge case to not be able to get in...

Zappi is fairly new so I haven't got around to it. But also the zappi guesses at SoC so wouldn't be as accurate as the Tesla? If I want to charge it to 100% like it recommends occasionally, the Zappi control would be less accurate I think?

its pretty? It also has arguably a better cylinder as thats what Ultion is known for. so a convenient and secure swap over for an existing door. If your current door has the holes in the right place and is the right thickness and the ratio of front to back allows the cylinder to be correctly...

yeah about 70p (30p x 3 = 90p but minus the 7.5p x 3 from your off peak you want to use in the car battery = 22.5p; total 67.5p) principle though innit? With a zappi if I'm feeling too lazy/cold to go unplug I could probably switch it from the app into eco+ mode then what would the car do...

from your pic I think it’d work fine. If you buy from amazon and it doesn’t work just return it - thats what I did with the Ultion. https://shop.nuki.io/en-gb/spare-parts/nuki-adapter/ Regular Nuku should go over your thumbturn but you may need to order an adapter - check that link and see if...

they very kindly pointed out I could do free drop off at the long stay car park :P

I stuck mine to a handle just fine. They come with tape for that. I tried the ultion but the problem with that is its limited to only three different hole positions for screws (which didn't match mine) and a fairly narrow range of lock depth which also didn't match mine. So I had to send it back.

no but I did spend £5 for the drop off service (grr)

it does whatever happens when you turn the thumbturn on the inside. for me I don't have a handle on the outside so I have it set to 'open' rather than unlock. Because when I turn the thumbturn it pulls the main latch back. - if people are in the house and its not multi-point engaged, that...

you're good although you may need to take the thumb turn off and get them to send you an adapter (free). Thumb turn is the better option IMO as it means you know you can still use a key from the outside which is important for emergency access.

Charging overnight to 100% - need to leave at 6:30 to take my son to the airport. It’ll be cold so I’ll want to defrost in the morning when I get up and have breakfast Will it do that using battery (preferred as it’ll have been cheap rate); or use the wall charger as it’s still plugged in (but...

I’ve noticed the car on cold mornings these days be really wet on the inside which takes ages to clear. Normally you whack on AC and it’d dry up quickly but doesn’t seem to. Defintely feels worse than before.

or just ride it out. its crappy weather today with barely any solar so my battery would be totally dead which would mean some peak rate before 23:30. But it may not be so empty as to need the 3kwh which is what an hour charging would have given it. also useful to occasionally do a drain to...

normally I might agree. And if the government had taken action earlier - like a decade earlier - with that kind of joined up thinking - there might be time to allow a carrot to do its job.

its called society. Everywhere you turn the ‘nanny’ state restricts what you can and can’t do, in an attempt to find a balance that works for most people. speed limits on motorways; drink drive limits; lower speed limits in built up areas; heck traffic lights could be argued as reducing your...

except by letting ICE sales ‘naturally’ fall off and end you’re relying on manufacturers increasing investment in EVs and slowing sales of ICE. If you just leave it to the market there is no guarantee new sales will stop which is why you need legislation

it works which avoids arguments :) It also has a backup of codes in case the print doesn't work but they have to be 6 digits it seems, and the keypad doesn't have a 0 so it makes it hard for me to use codes I can remember (eg reuse my pin code for my phone). So for now I've just put in...

Yes. I have now since bought a keypad thanks to this thread. Wife is happy so thats a good step - getting a phone app opened up was more hassle for her than fishing keys out her bag which is fair enough when her hands are full

that local authority database of closed roads being distributed to self driving systems - pie in the sky and maybe happens in the future but irrelevant for now and self driving systems shouldn't need it anyway but hopefully this opens up to at least a 'bluecruise' type of thing with extended...

note with that kit it can be very specific. I bought the replacement handle version and it wouldn't fit my lock - the spindle wasn't the correct ratio front:back, and the handle wouldn't cover the original screw holes of my old handle. YMMV of course but I ended up returning it, buying the...

I'm hesitant to unlock automatically as for my door type its 'lock' and 'open' respectively so any false positive could leave the door open. So honestly I still use the key, but my kids seem fine with the app. My son does seem to get the lock jammed but thats probably the door frame being a...

it may be a prototype only. I’d expect a final version to work via their commander that connects separately to the CANbus. If you can currently do it with sexy buttons you can do it with the stalk. I don’t know if all features are exposed (like double tap for autopilot etc) but indicators and...

My kids can let her in. Just curious is all

so my wife is currently abroad and she comes back next week. I'm flying out so will miss her coming home. I've changed the locks since she left. I have a spare in the glovebox of the tesla. If I send an invite to add a driver from the tesla app to her, will that let her open the car and even...

they already have very limited wiring vs other cars I think - from Munro teardowns. The stalks would presumably hook into some local messaging network and wouldn’t be wired all the way back tot he computer - although evne if it did the computer is right there.