gadgetgeek
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Hello,
First thanks for taking the time to read my post. I've recently moved and my new home has a solar setup with a Samsung airsource heat pump. The solar system has 5.4Kw of panels although the roof means they are mostly west facing, I was told they have edge inverts although I don't know what I'd look for to know if that is true or not. The system has a 3k Growatt inverter which I've had to replace the wifi dongle on as the reset button was damaged inside it and I couldn't pair the one that came with the house to my broadband.
Having got it connected so I can look at the data it appears the airsource heat pump never takes power from either the battery or the panels and instead draws from the grid. I'm aware that the inverter would only allow 3Kw of draw from the battery so if other applicances were running that consumed that 3Kw then it would need to pull from the grid but thats not the case.
From where grid power enters the house it goes into the main fuse, to the smart meter, to what I think are isolator switches. From there it goes into a henley block which then has one feed go into the main consumer unit that has PV stickers on it and a breaker for PV labelled on it. There is another feed from the henley block that goes to a second smaller consumer unit that appears to be for the heat pump. There is a 3rd box that breaks off from the main consumer unit for the EV charger but I've switched that off as I don't have an EV.
Within the shine phone app it reports nothing on the consumption of electric by the heat pump. If I go into the solar edge app it does show ~1Kw of grid draw when the heat pump is active. I can charge the battery overnight on the cheap rate so I have power to run the heat pump when the sun is being less helpful but if the heat pump wont use it that's less helpful to me and so the system as it stands will cost more than I would expect it to.
My main question at this point is what can I do to get the heat pump to make use of my free/cheep electricity and cut my bills?
I've tried to do some reading up on the subject so have learned the proper names for a few things but I'll not be offended if you assume I know very little of what I'm talking about and ask verifying questions. If you use technical terms I may not know what they mean but I do know how to use google so should be able to quickly find out.
Any help and guidance greatly appreciated and I'm suspecting the answer will start "get a qualified electrician to..." especially if it ends up with changing things inside the consumer unit. Would be good to know what I'm approaching them about so I can understand what they are talking about and know it's all on the level.
Oh also there is 20Kwh of battery capacity.
Many thanks
GadgetGeek
First thanks for taking the time to read my post. I've recently moved and my new home has a solar setup with a Samsung airsource heat pump. The solar system has 5.4Kw of panels although the roof means they are mostly west facing, I was told they have edge inverts although I don't know what I'd look for to know if that is true or not. The system has a 3k Growatt inverter which I've had to replace the wifi dongle on as the reset button was damaged inside it and I couldn't pair the one that came with the house to my broadband.
Having got it connected so I can look at the data it appears the airsource heat pump never takes power from either the battery or the panels and instead draws from the grid. I'm aware that the inverter would only allow 3Kw of draw from the battery so if other applicances were running that consumed that 3Kw then it would need to pull from the grid but thats not the case.
From where grid power enters the house it goes into the main fuse, to the smart meter, to what I think are isolator switches. From there it goes into a henley block which then has one feed go into the main consumer unit that has PV stickers on it and a breaker for PV labelled on it. There is another feed from the henley block that goes to a second smaller consumer unit that appears to be for the heat pump. There is a 3rd box that breaks off from the main consumer unit for the EV charger but I've switched that off as I don't have an EV.
Within the shine phone app it reports nothing on the consumption of electric by the heat pump. If I go into the solar edge app it does show ~1Kw of grid draw when the heat pump is active. I can charge the battery overnight on the cheap rate so I have power to run the heat pump when the sun is being less helpful but if the heat pump wont use it that's less helpful to me and so the system as it stands will cost more than I would expect it to.
My main question at this point is what can I do to get the heat pump to make use of my free/cheep electricity and cut my bills?
I've tried to do some reading up on the subject so have learned the proper names for a few things but I'll not be offended if you assume I know very little of what I'm talking about and ask verifying questions. If you use technical terms I may not know what they mean but I do know how to use google so should be able to quickly find out.
Any help and guidance greatly appreciated and I'm suspecting the answer will start "get a qualified electrician to..." especially if it ends up with changing things inside the consumer unit. Would be good to know what I'm approaching them about so I can understand what they are talking about and know it's all on the level.
Oh also there is 20Kwh of battery capacity.
Many thanks
GadgetGeek