Domestic Solar PV Quotes 2020

Very true, the dope never change supplier in over 10 years.

When they got solar a lot of bad habits changed and everyone bought into it. So in a way solar helped them change their ways.

He has very little excess as it goes into the car.

Is there any way of seeing what's going to the grid on the goodwe inverter?

I'm of the same opinion.

Can get an iboost fitted for 435. An energy monitor would be 120. I just need to get the immersion wired up.

I was looking at that last week but when you add customs etc, there's very little in it.

It will only come on during the day.

Why does it even need to be beside hot press (and thus possibly bedrooms)? put it down beside your fuse board? I had asked my installer about connecting both the long and short elements to the eddi but he said in practise it made no difference. If the short (sink) element ran first and got up to temperature, then have eddi switch to heat long element their experience was that the thermostat would still read as the tank was hot enough and the second element would turn off!!! with Eddi beside fuse board its CT connection to check for surplus export is literally there (no need for extra cabling for CT or need to use a harvi, and the power is just a case of redirecting the cable that already goes from fuse board to immersion to be attached to eddi instead!)

And no my installer is not talking bullshit, as the thermostat on standard 2 coil immersions is between the coils once you heat it for sink only you can't just immediately switch it to bath and hope it will heat the whole tank. the temperature at the thermostat will still be high for the water near the top of the tank hence the 2nd coil won't run. We even tested this because I wasn't convinced. Maybe not all dual coils work like this ? Better way to do this is this is two seperate coils with thermometers such as that one is at the top of the tank and other about half way down the heat the bottom of the tank.

In your scenario with the timed setup your running the bottom element in winter your not running sink and then switching to bath. As I have gas i really only use the eddi in summer to use up surplus electricity

Suggest you read the last few pages for anything to make sense to you

Won't heat your rads. This is electricity and potentially hot water.

From your post I think you are confusing Solar PV (electricity) with Solar Thermal Heating (heat). Apologies if thats not the case -- its just most people i talk to about Solar PV assume it just the Thermal version!

Solar Thermal heating uses the sun to heat gas/liquid (I think) in panels on your roof and then that heat is transferred to your hot water tank. Some countries like Portugal do use the same system for heating rads but not in Ireland.

This thread is primarily about systems generating Solar PV - Electric power from sun. Where we talk about heating water it is usually via a standard immersion to heat water tank when we generate more electricity than the house requires and thus we send surplus to heat tank

Hi there, this thread has been very useful to see some of the rip off prices being charged.

I've received a quote for a 4.4kWp system (12 panels) , 4kw Huawei Inverter, 5kWh Huawei battery all in with BER cert for 9K after grant. How does that sound?

It was 2.2K cheaper than from another well known company but I suspect still above the odds. Can anyone PM recommended installers?

I'm based near Greystones, Wicklow. Have a nice south facing roof which is now badly needing some panels.

I have an install coming with 14 panels, 4.6kw, 5kw Hybrid inverter, 5kw battery, Eddi Water diverter and 3 optimisers. €6,800 all in after grant, but I have to get a BER. I'm in Bray. Its a crowd in Enniskillen, with a persons name in the company title.

Looks pretty good to me. 5kW battery and diverter and optimisers. I wouldn't worry about the BER. You'd probably get one for 200ish. Just make sure the installers gives you all the documentation to pass on to the BER inspector.

That's over by 2 to 3 grand imo