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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Unfortunately we had a terrible experience with out installers and jave been next to useless in terms of them responding to telephone calls and e-mails. I might consider getting them back anyway as where they have put the battery is in a very awkward place to access it and add a second one if I...
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Thanks for links, very helpful. I wish the installer had mentioned something about this when they suggested putting battery and inverter in loft. It looks like I might need to rig something up to surround battery so can put some lagging around it.
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Its all relative I guess ;-)! Might have to look at insulating it in the loft somehow
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Its a growatt AXE 5.0L C1 5kW. Sorry didnt find your other posts. So then this might be the issue because its a cold day today.
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Thanks for r Thanks for reply. I am not sure about any of that. I am still hunting around for info on how the inverter works to see if it might be a temp issue, in which case lagging the battery might help I guess.
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Oh I have never heard of this but I guess this might make sense. Yes it is a very cold bright sunny day today. The battery and inverter are in the loft so will be colder I guess than the house. I have measure temperature in loft at 10C, outside its 4C.
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    Solar exporting instead of charging battery

    Hi guys. I am really getting very frustrated with the growatt system we have installed. It seems impossible to understand what the inverter is doing and there is very little in the way of any helpful guidance on how to change settings. Right now we have a lot of sun and solar being produced (not...
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    Deciding whether to buy a second growatt battery for moving to Octopus Flux

    Thanks for your help. Yes I will do that. Have a good Christmas!
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    Deciding whether to buy a second growatt battery for moving to Octopus Flux

    Thanks for your reply. Yes I think you are right. I can buy another battery for £1400, but not sure if I can add it easily myself. It looks realtively straight forward to add it as it is modular and there are instructions in the manual. So would be willing to do this. Just not sure if changes...
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    Deciding whether to buy a second growatt battery for moving to Octopus Flux

    Hi. We have 10 x 405W panels, a Growatt SPH3600 inverter and Growatt 5 kW battery (AXE 5.0L-C1 5kW). We are currently on the Flexible Octopus (Import) and Outgoing Octopus (Export) tariffs, but are thinking of switching to Flux to make use of the cheap Flux rate at 2-5am. So I recently...
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    Growatt SPH3600 Inverter problems

    Hi. We have been noticing some weird things happening with our new solar system. We have 10 x 405W panels, a Growatt SPH3600 inverter and Growatt 5 kW battery. Last night I changed the "Battery First" settings to force charge the battery between 2 and 5 am. This was a test before we move over to...
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