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I hope you like the format of the new Beta Testers forum, it’s a lot less clunky and I hope it makes it easier for you to provide us with feedback and ideas for improvements.
I hope you like the format of the new Beta Testers forum, it’s a lot less clunky and I hope it makes it easier for you to provide us with feedback and ideas for improvements.
Hi
Bill16STN here, I’ve been bothering the hell out of Stuart Bradley (First Line Service Desk Engineer) on e’mail over the past couple of days. He’s very patient!
I’m looking at installing a system & am impressed with the GivEnergy offering, but I’m still trying to get my head around things - so please expect a lot of stoopid questions as I embark upon my Solar PV & Battery Storage journey.
What I want to achieve is:
3 areas of Solar PV using Viridian in roof.
Area A 12x 405 Wp Panels
Area B 5x 405 Wp Panels
Area C 5x 405 Wp Panels
I would propose to have each Panel fitted with its own Optimiser.
Have 2 Strings coming back to a Hybrid Inverter 5.0 Gen3
(String 1 being Area A & String 2 being Areas B & C)
Initially Battery Storage would be GIV BAT 9.5 - - another to be possibly added at a later date?
But What we really want is to have the ability to be able to cope with grid power cuts, so the GIV-Gateway looks really interesting, but from what I can see won’t work with the above?
Any comments or guidance would be gratefully received.
Similar to Bill16STN, I have lots of roof space on my bungalow for solar panels. I started getting quotes for a system in April and selected a 7.8kW array, Tesla Powerwall and 6kW inverter proposed by my installer. However, a few weeks ago we got back the connection offer from the DNO of 6.4kW export limit and an 8kW system value, meaning the total potential of grid connected equipment cannot exceed 8kW. As the Tesla Powerwall represents a 5kW AC connected device that restricted the inverter to 3kW. Somewhat limiting!
I’m now looking for a DC battery solution but I’m also thinking with more battery capacity I could increase my array size to, say, 12kW. The 8kW system value would not be exceeded if I used 2 x Hydrid Gen 3 3.6kW inverters (7.2kW, which roughly equals EV charger) plus 2 x Giv-Bat 9.5 and a Giv-Gateway. But would that work? Would it be easy to manage?
So things are starting to settle down after my initial posting.
Going to be using the Viridian In-Roof Panels (405Wp) - didn’t realise just how big these are!:
East facing: 3x Panels
West facing: 6x Panels
South facing:2x Panels
All of the above with individual Enphase micro inverters feeding the Gateway & in turn a 13.5 kWh All in One (with space to add another, making an All in Two?)
I wish that GivEnergy would release details on this but nothing as yet.
I will be visiting Everything Electric at London Excell, so hopefully be able to find something out there.
All this work starts in about 2 weeks at the same time as the ASHP goes in!
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