Interesting project 😄

That will be interesting to see how that all work out for you. I have 4.5kw PV on my roof [10south facing - 5 west facing] along with a 5Kwh battery. I also have owned an Ev for 8yrs, and also use a Myenergi water heating and car charging system. The whole thing is amazing how it is smart and auto does what it needs to do so I buy as little power from the grid as possible. As for motorbike motivation, the weather here in NI has been Crap since we got back from theTT. I also haven't recorded any new footage in well over a month. But I feel a lot of YT'ers are not putting out as much content as usual based on the current lousy weather. ps we are heading to Wicklow next Thursday for a long weekend of Biking & camping..Hopfully I get some footage from that ...

@rememberitsallagame

11 ай бұрын

Cheers for the comment, it's great to have a project to crack on with, despite the weather! Good look with your upcoming trip! I wish you pleasant weather, and look forward to the videos 👍 PS congratulations on the sub count - keep knocking out those videos!

How is your eco worthy hybrid inverter getting on?

@rememberitsallagame

2 ай бұрын

Hi, I'm really happy with the whole set up. inverter stays on 24/7 I did buy an additional 2 batteries, now totally self-sufficient running a full size fridge freezer, lighting, and charging laptop etc.

Eh I don't think 3kW is enough for a real kitchen, like you will only be able to use 1 big load at a time, really I think for a fullsized kitchen you should be going for 6kW minium, like I think the advice of Will Prowes of DIY Solar with Will Prowes has it right, "buy the biggest inverter to can afford because you will end up spending a tonne of money on inverters buying for what you currently use because you will buy a few more appliences and they don't even have to be big and you will end up needing in a chain of buying inverter after inverter." And if you buy for example a Growatt SPF5000-ES 48V Inverter you can add another inverter upto 6 meaning 30kW... which like that is just dumb, but I can see going for 10 or 15 if your doing a system for a faimily house, 5000W is fine for a single person though, you can run 2 reltaively large loads like a air frier and induction hob and a few smallish loads, and like the Growatt SPF5000-ES 48V Inverter can be had for like £650 so considering your already going to be at the very least spending £600 on batteries and your going to want 1000W of solar minium which is another ~$600, like I think it's worth spending the extra on the inverter and batteries to get you upto 48V and a 48V inverter that you can add another one to later. Also that Growwatt inverter also comes with a 6000W Solar MPPT, and can charge the batteries with upto 80A to like 4000W AC charging to, and if you were actually going to get 6000W of solar you would definitly be wanting more inverter capacity so at that point you are talking like a maxium of 12,000W solar... which is just dumb.

@rememberitsallagame

7 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for the comment! You make very valid points - I follow Will P, but sadly I don't have his knowledge or pockets 🤣, I'm just a simple man trying things out, for my personal needs and circumstances 3kv is fine, but I've already found that 1000w of panels isn't enough to run my fridge / freezer in the UK winter months. I anticipated and changed from electric oven to bottled gas stove so now I make coffee and toast on the hob. It's all a learning curve 😉