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#3386893 25-Jun-2025 06:51

kiwifidget:

wow May-July is a really big dip.

@Jase2985 you are not wrong about the weather. We cant even mow the lawn, the grass hasnt been dry enough in weeks.

To give us context can you tell us how many panels etc?

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#3386901 25-Jun-2025 08:02

@prob all the vitals on pg 5

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#3386902 25-Jun-2025 08:03

@acsylaa how's your winter generation going?

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#3386905 25-Jun-2025 08:14

kiwifidget:

@acsylaa how's your winter generation going?

Its not too bad, i have changed the SOC on the battery to 90% as a buffer as there were a few days where the battery didnt charge at all, so may as well just top it up and push what i can back to the grid on good days!

This is the last 30 Days

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#3386917 25-Jun-2025 09:25

We've left our battery at 5%.

I dont think our electricity plan allows for topping up the battery from the grid.

But it do it once during a known Storm event.

I heard a rumour that battery#2 might arrive today.

Once that is running we will up the SOC to 20% to give us overnight buffer.

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#3386935 25-Jun-2025 10:31

CYaBro:

We're finally getting solar!
Install scheduled for the end of July.

10kWp panels.
10kW Sigenergy inverter.
16kWh Sigenergy battery (2x8kWh)
Shelly relay for hot water control.

$35k.

keen to see pics of the battery’s and the set up

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#3386973 25-Jun-2025 13:30

kiwifidget:

We've left our battery at 5%.

I dont think our electricity plan allows for topping up the battery from the grid.

But it do it once during a known Storm event.

I heard a rumour that battery#2 might arrive today.

Once that is running we will up the SOC to 20% to give us overnight buffer.

If you set the PW3 TOU plan it will charge from the grid, its just standard power usage. I set ours to fully charge between 3am to 6am when the power is free.

Really going to miss the Z EV plan.

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#3386977 25-Jun-2025 13:47

it's here, but something not going as expected so not working yet.

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#3386979 25-Jun-2025 14:02

kiwifidget:

it's here, but something not going as expected so not working yet.

If you haven't already take a photo of the QR code sticker on the main unit since the cover is off, it has the wifi connection details should you ever want to pull metrics directly or use NetZero to view the battery health.

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#3387087 25-Jun-2025 20:04

I left soon after I took the photo.

What I can say now is that the whole system appears to be dead.

The app says there is no data.

Battery is zero, panels are zero (ok certainly now, but it was also saying zero when I left), and we are pulling 100% from the grid now.

To add insult to injury, the technician excused himself to do another job while our system "initialised" and that he would come back to check on it before the end of the day. That was the last Himself saw of him. He is much grumpy now.

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#3387088 25-Jun-2025 20:10

Outrageous!

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#3387092 25-Jun-2025 21:01

We shall see what the morning brings.

If the sun comes up and the numbers dont start moving there's going to be a lot of very bad words said.

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#3387285 26-Jun-2025 19:02

Ok words have been exchanged, and battery man came back today, bowing scraping and tugging his forelock.

It all seems to be working now.

They basically installed it wrong.

One issue, there was 2 and I dont remember the first one, was that the connectors had grease on them to prevent corrosion in storage, and the grease wasnt cleaned off before installation thus hindering a proper connection. Pretty basic stuff you'd think for an installer.

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