PowerSwitch

To try and use a bit more "free" electricity, a couple of months ago I fitted a timer switch to my immersion heater. As my 3.7KWp system rarely exceeds the 3KW my immersion consumes, I've been trying to find a suitable low wattage replacement, and finally last week I found one! There are l...

[quote="RenewableCandy"]So, 2 pm and the snow's stopped and out comes the sun. Out also comes RC with her trusty broom and sweeps the snow orf the PVs as per. And watches the power change from zero to...zero!! Yesterday at about the same time, it was 860W. Sure it's not just the panel temp...

e.on only had a downloadable PDF application form that had to be returned via snail-mail, but they turned it round within a week. I've got to give my first reading on 8th December, hopefully get some dosh for Christmas.

Has anybody found any sort of switch that can control a socket and switch on when the solar panels hit a pre-determined output?

A sort of cross between a digital time switch and an Owl energy monitor.

My FiT still hasn't come through and I've had a bloke come 'round here reading the meter who said, he had no detail to read a third meter. Gah! They'd better hurry up and get it sorted before Ozzie abolishes it!! I'm with e.on for my FIT and they simply want me to send them a reading every 3 months...

I used Ethical Solar , because they do what it says on the label. We had quotes from half a dozen companies, had surveys from three and went with Ethical Solar because they were the cheapest and we liked the motivation of the boss, John Whiten - an ex-pilot who realised that flying people round the...