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    A Cautionary Tale (Cat hides under car)

    Aye, the cubby hole you couldn't get further back and it just had a small velvet curtain covering the front which hid Roper from sight. I was lucky in many ways I didnt pull the cable release during Roper appearance, I was somewhat startled. The Pirat was indeed a nice handling glider in it's...
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    Multiple charging schedules

    What charger do you have? It's easily achieved in MyEnergi Zappi, I would imaging most others too. Like this:- J
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    A Cautionary Tale (Cat hides under car)

    When I was in my late teens (a long, long time ago), I owned a share in an SZD Pirat glider. One Sunday morning I was going to attempt my Silver distance award and prepped my glider and my retrieve crew etc. The moment looked good for a launch using a winch with some pretty active looking...
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    What in your life apart from your MG have battery packs?

    Scrap the battery idea altogether, use a universal fuel, PETROL instead :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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    What in your life apart from your MG have battery packs?

    Pacemaker Standard Drill SDS Drill Hedge Trimmer iPhone Laptop Tablet Impact Driver BMW i3 Peg Perego Gaucho Jeep Peg Perego John Deere Tractor House battery DIY House Battery Growatt UPS System Oscilloscope Network Tester Blood pressure monitor bracelet Blood pressure monitor cuff Bluetooth...
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    Balcony Solar

    I can see this being a problem in some cases. If it's really free standing or hung from balcony rails needing nothing fitting to the property I don't have a problem. My property that has two flats above the retail premises has just undergone a £450,000 refurb, it's also a Grade II Listed...
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    What Made You Choose An MG?

    Great reviews and I was very impressed on the test drive. Two and a half years in to my 4 year PCP however, I have decided I wont be having another MG. The initial impression of the MG5 was a nice tech package but experience has highlighted a few issues - Carplay is very hit and miss, no voice...
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    Tomato Energy

    I wouldn’t want to do that, Smsrtest energy have offered great rates in business energy, I really want to pay them!
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    Tomato Energy

    Well to all of you out there, you missed your chance to adopt Biker67's Octopus cos I've got it for my Grandson Wilf! Biker67 is an absolute top guy, responded to my DM's instantly and dispatched the said 8 legged friend straight away, even before I'd paid, he's clearly a man of my own heart, I...
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    Two approaches to solar install. Thoughts appreciated!

    Exactly the way it should be done! Should you ever need to use your batteries to charge the car there is usually an 'export amount' or similar named setting within the inverter, I can set my Victron to export 7kW and enable the Zappi to charge the car, the net result is all of the energy comes...
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    Tomato Energy

    Yes it is their problem but morally it feels wrong. We got on a great tariff with Smartest Energy and I almost feel were taking advantage of them by not paying as we go along, I feel really uncomfortable. There isnt any interest being charged on our outstanding balance.
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    Two approaches to solar install. Thoughts appreciated!

    Is that not what I said? I'm somewhat confused with your comment, who is it meant for? J
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    Two approaches to solar install. Thoughts appreciated!

    Absolutely YES. Most recent inverters to my knowledge are G100 compliant and can do this. You can check on the ENA list here G100 Approval List When I first installed my Multiplus II GX it was going through the approval process so I had to limit the export to 0kW. Now it's approved the...
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    Two approaches to solar install. Thoughts appreciated!

    This is how it looks on the Growatt SPH and the Victron Multiplus II I dont have a lot of experience on parameters within inverters but the ones I've had dealings with all have this facility. J
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    Two approaches to solar install. Thoughts appreciated!

    Thats pretty much standard on all approved inverters. You simply set Maximum Export Power on my Victron it's in kW and on my Growatt it's a % of the inverter power. It simply does exactly whats said on the tin, in MattyS's case he just needs to limit Export to 5kW but leave the inverter maximum...
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