Alb
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It is tomorrow (18th).
18th 18th yes Sun 18th. ?Tomorrow's the 18th. Do you mean tomorrow or Monday?
Thanks for that. I hadn't signed up because of the full car at the last free slot, so didn't get any notification. I've signed up now, so hopefully I will get the notification.
The car is sitting at around 60% now waiting to be charged for the start of a road trip on Tuesday morning. I can swipe what I can get either Sunday or Monday. I just have to remember to set the house battery to charge at the same time (although it will be at 100%) to avoid the Zappi draining it while it charges, and get everything from the mains.
If you are signed up you will get the benefit.Dang, still no email advising me of this opportunity, even though I have signed up now. Don't know whether to risk it.
Mine came through at 1230 on Friday, having signed up Thursday. Didn't even realise I was waiting for it ?Dang, still no email advising me of this opportunity, even though I have signed up now. Don't know whether to risk it.
Then dont do it, simplesEven if I do the car charger (which I need) and the hot water (which I probably don't) and run the vacuum cleaner for a bit, I'm not going to use £1 worth of electricity, given that I'm only using the stuff at the off peak rate.
Not convinced it's worth the hassle.
Then dont do it, simples
Last time I used about 15 kWh extra so about £3.30 ish for about 5 minutes configuring things on my system (EDDI Zappi, Heatpumps, Batteries, Granny Charger).
On the former, I had to decide whether to have the laundry/dishwasher starting or ending during the free period. Decided to try to get them ending during it because there will be heating/spin cycle.I'm not doing anything with the washing machine, dishwasher or tumble drier, because that was all done last week, and anyway all these things take more than an hour to run a cycle.
I'm not trying to discharge the house battery and charge it again, because I think that's a complication too far for me right now. Maybe next time.
Can you not set the inverter to charge your house battery from 13~:00 to 14:00? that will then stop Zappi stealing battery power as well as charge your house battery.OK, thinking this through. I need to write it down. At one o'clock I...
- Turn off "eco" on the inverter so that the house will only use mains power.
Set a schedule on EDDI 13:00 for 1 hour, ditto Zappi.
- Turn on the Eddi.
Yep
- Maybe turn on the fan heater if the sun hasn't come out.
Plug the car in now and set a schedule as per the above, only switch mode from the app just before 13:00 from STOP to ECO+
- Plug in the car and set the Zappi to maximum charge.
Aye, go for it
- Vacuum out the car boot (which I was going to do this afternoon anyway, having done the footwells and the mats yesterday).
Sounds like a plan
- Go take the shower I didn't have this morning because I forgot to turn the Eddi back on last night and the water wasn't hot enough.
Delete the schedules on your inverter, EDDI and Zappi, job doneAt two o'clock I stop the Eddi, stop the car charging, turn off the fan heater, and set the inverter back to "eco".
Nah come on, you can do better than this.I thought about automating this, but I'm not that confident so I think I'll do it manually for now.
Yes but the one theyre running will be saving you £££ and after the hour has gone it will revert to being fed from your solar / battery.I'm not doing anything with the washing machine, dishwasher or tumble drier, because that was all done last week, and anyway all these things take more than an hour to run a cycle.
ChickenI'm not trying to discharge the house battery and charge it again, because I think that's a complication too far for me right now. Maybe next time.
A busy old hour, eh ? ?Whew, eight minutes to go. Worth it more for the learning experience than for possible pocket change.
First the Eddi didn't want to come out of Stop mode. This is regular, but usually it's not an issue. It was being particularly recalcitrant this time.
Then the Zappi, which I was controlling from its own interface, kept reverting to eco+ no matter how often I told it to go to Fast. I thought there was a boost setting in Octopus, but couldn't find that. A lot of random fiddling with the Zappi app, which kept saying things like "boost is not available when fast mode is selected", and somehow I must have done something right because it held. Poor Caliban must have been quite confused by what was going on, but he held up admirably, accepting power whenever it was offered.
Then I grabbed the Dyson and set to the boot vacuuming. The guy across the road was pressure-washing his car, so it's all the car care today. By this time it was 1.20, but that had given the Eddi time to heat some water, so I had that power shower, managing to finish by 1.35 to give the water time to heat up again. Dry, dressed and back here just in time to type this and then start switching things off.
OK, the switching off was OK. I hadn't put any heaters on because there was enough solar gain to warm the conservatory and the kitchen so it would have been pointless. The Eddi co-operated, then after thinking about it for a bit the Zappi went into Stop mode, and I got the inverter back on eco a few seconds after two. The GivEnergy app looks perfectly normal, with the battery at 100%, the house drawing 287 watts, solar generation at 1.87 kw and 1.59 kw being exported.
Now I need to go back out and tidy up the Dyson, its extension lead, and the boot itself. Caliban is all smart and ready to go for the next big road trip on Tuesday. (But actually I think I need a coffee first! Didn't think to boil the kettle during the free period!)