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Funny enough I was thinking exactly the same, so I checked the boiler details which say it should on a 5 amp fuse. I'm very temped to put a plug top on the wire and replace fused switch with a standard 13 amp socket to be ready. a few years back I bought a small camping gas stove due to the...

I still find that hard to get my head around, I get paid for generating 3.7-4.2 mWh per annum but I can use as much of that as possible for free and still get paid the same amount. The idea that by adding a battery, which is only there to to store cheap rate electricity for use instead of the...

I am going to investigate we have local guy I plan to meet to see if it will work, I just need more data about our usage, BTW I see on an older post you mention Octo-aid, do you still use it, is it any good? We have a relatively new oil combi boiler so my time shift options are relatively...

That was part of the reason for the Zappi so that I could use IOG, and yes I do have FiT. The peak rate here is 24.39p for go and IOG.

I've just switched to Go, the premium on peak cost is 1.3p above the cap for my location. Now its got me thinking about a Zappi to maximise my solar excess usage although I'm not sure how much of the time my excess is above 1.4kW, Is there an app that accesses the Octopus API that would tell me...

Last august I had similar amounts, in June I added around 700 miles with 60-70% of that being sunshine, on the plus side FiT paid me £113 for what I'd produced.

When I visited the Tottenham Tesla service centre they did have a number of AC chargers needing a cable looking similar the pod point bollard chargers as well as the V4 chargers. FWIW neither of the superchargers near me state un-thethered.

I think the only time it has happened to me on a well marked road was when a properly repaired large patch had a tar line boundary running parallel to the direction of travel and it decided to move me over so I didn't straddle it. As I said elsewhere the system only works well in very specific...

I think the problem is that most (non motorway) UK roads are poorly marked narrow full of potholes and indifferently repaired patches that just confuse the LKA. Most of the roads around here don't have markings so LKA remains in the ready (white) state then it will pick up a shiny repair (its...

I'd be happy to use these aids if they were fit for purpose. I find LKA just wrong particularly when its bright with its tendency to pick up tar lines on road repairs and jerk the steering, and traffic sign recognition unreliable either picking up signs on side roads or not recognising main one...

It will be interesting to see how your winter generation compares. Last month our SW facing panels generated 1.8x the amount for the whole 1st Nov - 1st Feb quarter last year. I wonder with your higher latitude, if the longer summer days/shorter winter days would make the difference more extreme?

I'm finding that using solar and the granny when I'm at home I can add 10-15 kWh at a cost of 20-100p depending how many clouds come over. I'm happy enough with that, much easier than spending my time deciding whether to pull the plug or not.

Can you tell it to start charging either from the app or inside the car? Other than that try the charger on another car/another granny on your car.

Does the granny have any lights indicating its status? The MG one does a quick self test, indicated by flashing red, yellow and green led, followed by yellow only until connected then yellow and green when charging.

Just finished a 10-100% balance charge using the 'granny'. We got back from a weekend away yesterday, I'd originally hoped to use the destination charger where we stayed but at 69p for a 3.2kw charger I gave it a miss. According to the Tapo it used 64.1 kWh (about right with 10% charging loss)...

I think Tesla quote a lower WLTP for 20 vs 19 on the model 3, more rolling resistance for the same overall diameter? The deeper sidewall on the 17s will cope a little better with the awful potholes we have.

Oddly enough Allianz have just covered my car for the same premium as Aviva charged me last year.

Had my car a year now (8k miles) and only have the granny at home. I occasionally use ac destination charging and the last time I used DC was the end of last year. It has worked out fine. Because I try to use my solar I decided to wait and see how I got on in the winter only using the granny...

I think the key here is MG 'strongly recommend' that the same specification tyre is fitted which I would take as size and load rating, they are not saying you must fit the same tyre as supplied. Apart from high performance cars OEM tyres tend to be a compromise of price and performance and...

I've noticed that although the app stays stuck in long trip mode in the test, the graphic does indicate its actually in health mode when you select 80% from the settings in the app, ,look at the colour difference in the bars on the graphic. Additionally I left mine on charge and it did stop at...