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I used ground screws like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313964745318 but I bought the insertion tool from the pile company, because noone else seems to sell it. So I'm afraid I don't know anything about the piles.

I don't think so, I'm talking about metal ground screws, they are $20-$30 each. https://www.ukhelix.com/order/ 1 x Screw Pile Installation Tool SR100 £12 2 x 1.5m Tube for Installation £24 £36 total You can use a lump hammer with a wooden drift to help the ground screw start to dig into...

Has the OP heard of ground screws? I think you could have saved yourself a lot of money and time, rather than using concrete foundations for your ground mounts.

Those planning rules are hopelessly out of date, in my opinion. What use is only 9 square metres of panels? It's an arbitrary they must have cooked up years ago.

No it won't, if in the Winter you are only getting 5A off each string... That's why the strings are in parallel - the inverter will be blown up by more than its maximum voltage (in my case, 500V per inverter), but the inverter will decide how much it wants to draw in amps. It is only additional...

Thanks for that info, I never thought of that! If they're paralleled then the voltage won't be higher than 400V odd, as long as I use the correct number of panels per string.

My 12kW of ground mounted Canadian Solar 595W panels don't give out enough kWh to get me through a day during the Winter months, if it's a cloudy day. I was thinking of buying another 8kW of panels (you can now buy 8kW of new solar panels from BimbleSolar for £1,200 plus delivery) to use with a...

Hi, I have 12kW of ground mounted solar panels, two rows of ten Canadian Solar 595W. I store bags of sand and cement under them, under a tarpaulin, and crates of assorted household 'junk'. When I mounted the panels, I left a 1-2cm gap between them, because I thought it would allow some of the...

I got the pads from Ebay, the seller hasn't got any left in stock, but this is what it looks like - 240V, with a slider to adjust the heat between Low, Medium and High (I think). It's 45cm x 45cm - perfect for Pylontech US5000 batteries.

What symptoms did they die from? The statistics speak for themselves - the average age of those dying 'from' or 'with' COVID was the same as the average life expectancy. Therefore there was no 'pandemic'. Again I ask: why aren't thousands of 'unvaccinated' people dying from COVID every month...

You didn't address a single thing I said, all you wrote was a long 'appeal to authority' fallacy.

To put it more simply - just as they did with 'AIDS', Big Pharma redefined deaths FROM OTHER CAUSES as 'Covid' deaths, by using a fraudulent 'test'. If you tested positive, your death from cancer, dementia, pneumonia, heart attack, etc. was redefined and added to the 'Covid death' numbers, even...

Nobody said that people didn't die - but the average age of those dying 'from' or 'with' Covid was the same as the average life expectancy... i.e. in the U.K., people dying 'from' or 'with' Covid had an average age of 83 - and the average life expectancy was 82... How is that a 'pandemic' when...

I use a hot water cylinder jacket to keep my batteries warm in the Winter, dirt cheap, tie it around the batteries with string, easy to remove and store rolled up when the weather is warmer. I use two heated per mats between my three batteries, about 15W each, if I need to heat the batteries up...

The problem is that the grid can only just produce the electricity we already use in buildings and all other non-EV cases - because of the unreliability of renewables. So if a million more people buy an EV this year, they will need at least 20kWh per day to charge it, and the average UK house...

Some of the heads of auto companies were questioned on how much CO2 was in the atmosphere: they all said it was 5% or over. They have no idea what is going on. 'Climate change' is an obvious scam, look at CO2 coalition org, or Watts Up With That, Climate Depot, etc. I have solar power...

Yes, our own governments are our worst enemy. The totally unnecessary lockdowns caused far more suffering than their non-existent virus, and their fraudulent PCR 'test'. We know that the whole thing was a scam, for one simple reason: thousands of 'unvaccinated' people are NOT dying every month...

I have taken screenshots of the inverters running an oven and an electric shower simultaneously, I will post them up later today. Everything ran perfectly, I think PV output was under a kW, so most of the power was coming from the batteries. Here are the screenshots - the electric oven (3kW, I...

I've bought TP-Link TP100 sockets, they have a timer function, so I can just set them for a certain number of hours, and they will automatically turn off. Amazing technology, I've just set them up (not that the batteries need heating at the moment), and it only took a few minutes for each...

I have my shower late at night, and have the bathroom heater on at the same time - I've been doing that every night since the inverters were set up, no problems. I'll try to do a test tonight and take some screenshots under high load.

I've just turned on the heated pads in between the batteries, as I believe the ideal temperature is 25C. I'm going to buy a couple of 'smart sockets' which you control with a mobile phone app, so that I can turn the heated pads on and off from inside my house, rather than having to go outside...

Well, every day I use a 4.5kW shower and a 1.5kW fan heater for ten minutes or so, I also turn on as much as I can when the kW are high on a sunny day (currently getting 8kW in the U.K. at 12:30), and no problems at all.

themizz - you say you have shaded panels, have you tried them without the optimisers? I have shade on my panels during the Winter months (neighbours three houses down, to the South of my panels, have three huge trees in their garden), and I still get decent outputs from my 12kW of panels during...

I will try to post up some screenshots of the Solar Assistant Inverter and Battery screens tomorrow.

So, I have had the two inverters working for three weeks now. Everything is perfect. The right hand inverter sometimes shows the voltage 0.1V higher than the left hand inverter, but then, they only display increments of 0.1V, so I imagine they are often, say, 46.16V on one, rounded up to 46.2V...

So you're suggesting that I should have used a thinner cable than 70mm2, because the manual only says two times 22m2? (in my case, 'X' is 2 inverters). And thus the voltage drop would be even greater?

My electrician is coming round later this week to finish the rest of the installation, I imagine he will put the cables into trunking. I will report back as soon as the inverters are up and running, so we can see if there is a problem or not. I can't imagine there will be, going by the length of...

Can you give me a timestamp for where you see the loads on the inverters are different?

Does that negate what I just said? We'll see what the result is when it's all set up later this week. I prefer talking about facts, actual figures, not vague 'You might have problems' and the like. Still waiting for timselectric to tell us what size cables he had a problem with on his set up. I...

"You asked because you just wanted to be told that wrong is right so you don't have to do more work." More mind readers here. I can easily redo the cables myself in ten minutes if necessary. "so you don't have to do more work". Just unbelievable.

This is the cable: https://www.bimblesolar.com/70mm-cable-meter 5.94mm diameter. You can't put the Lynx Power In in a different place, its bus bars literally bolt onto the Lynx Distributor's bus bars, so they have to be side by side. I didn't notice the load differences on the video, I will...

Why did I ask in the first place? Because I wanted to know if it would be okay. Timselectric's answer doesn't deal with facts, and doesn't state how bad the 'problem' might be, but insinuates that there IS a problem without explaining why. I only had 3m or 4m of 70mm2 cable (I can't remember...

What size were the cables, timselectric? Are we ever going to be told? It seems like one side is pushing speculation and anecdotal 'evidence' without any recourse to actual figures, and the other is looking at the figures and deciding it isn't going to be a problem.

I will, as soon as my electrician finishes off the installation this week. And worst case scenario, heaven forbid, I'll buy some new cables and make the left hand inverter's cables the same length as the right hand one's... But 0.01V isn't going to cause a problem.