How much did you export?
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Irrelevant, its how much was generated.How much did you export?
The old Fit is paid for generation and assumed 25% export.
So if he generated 40 KWh it would be 40 x 74.37p and 10 x 5.25p
50% deemed exported, actual was non, as we have batteries
Generated 1609 kWH in last quarter
Anyone else on Octopus Go Intelligent get the email about them dropping the car charge anytime at 7p being removed, it will just be the usual 11pm to 5am cheap rate.
Won’t effect me too much but did find it charging the car throughout the day quite useful if I had gone out for a longer drive in the morning.
I have it charging my batteries in the evening as well which mostly covers the day depending on how much the hob and oven get used.
Won’t effect me too much but did find it charging the car throughout the day quite useful if I had gone out for a longer drive in the morning.
I have it charging my batteries in the evening as well which mostly covers the day depending on how much the hob and oven get used.
I think this was announced and in the media a while ago that they were planning on making the change.
I am on this tariff and didn’t see that so thanks for the heads up. We usually plug my wife’s car in when see gets home at 7pm and it creates a schedule for the cheap rate time so not sure if that’s the same thing?
We try to run as many things overnight to like dishwashers and tumble dryers! Pita but does make it alot cheaper
Wasn’t it that you only get a maximum of 6hrs EV charging at the reduced rate? Some people were gaming the system by asking for 100% charge at 2pm ‘by midnight’, so effectively creating an off peak window of about 2pm to 5:30am! They got wise so closed that down.
Likewise we only pull from the grid between 2330-0530 now. A single Tesla Powerwall just handles everything BAU and we shift all the heavy appliances to that window. Storage heaters, dishwasher, washing machine, cars, UFH, battery, etc it can soon add up in winter!
Likewise we only pull from the grid between 2330-0530 now. A single Tesla Powerwall just handles everything BAU and we shift all the heavy appliances to that window. Storage heaters, dishwasher, washing machine, cars, UFH, battery, etc it can soon add up in winter!
worst thing is when it fails to charge the f ing car over night and then you are screwed the next morning… electric cars are a pita
I’d never had trusted it to work by 12am lol
Glad I’m still old school
I’d never had trusted it to work by 12am lol
Glad I’m still old school
Iv only had this happen twice since April so for me very very rare and the car is plugged in everyday. Luckily for me I just use the 3litre petrol for the day as hybrid and have a bit of fun
(and visit the petrol station at the end of the day hahaha)
My wife is a midwife and was given discounts/incentives by the nhs to get an electric car ~2 years ago . We had to have a charger installed at home because the hospital where she works has no chargers…Iv only had this happen twice since April so for me very very rare and the car is plugged in everyday. Luckily for me I just use the 3litre petrol for the day as hybrid and have a bit of fun
car has failed to charge multiple times overnight leaving her only option to go to expensive supermarket or petrol stations on way to work
Charger itself broke and had to be replaced. Took 2 weeks to sort out no charging was possible during that tine
In summary I don’t recommend an electric car
I hate being in a supermarket car park at 10.30pm at night trying to get a charger to work and save her from the stress at 6.30am.. and that’s not a 1 off
Scheduled wise we set it for it maximum window ie to 5.30am because we don’t trust the f ing thing to work ..
Can you code the charger to by pass the schedule if nothing has been set by say 3am and just force charge (full rate but better than nothing?)My wife is a midwife and was given discounts/incentives by the nhs to get an electric car ~2 years ago . We had to have a charger installed at home because the hospital where she works has no chargers…
car has failed to charge multiple times overnight leaving her only option to go to expensive supermarket or petrol stations on way to work
Charger itself broke and had to be replaced. Took 2 weeks to sort out no charging was possible during that tine
In summary I don’t recommend an electric car
I hate being in a supermarket car park at 10.30pm at night trying to get a charger to work and save her from the stress at 6.30am.. and that’s not a 1 off
Scheduled wise we set it for it maximum window ie to 5.30am because we don’t trust the f ing thing to work ..
Not sure. to be honest i dont want to mess with it as i dont want to have to sort it out anymore than i already do , got enough broken things to fix daily as it is lol
I know the feeling, every “smart” device all made to make our life “more convenient” seam to cause more issues than convenience sometimes
all devices are getting a little to complicated these days.
Is it an OHME charger Jim? on the groups I'm on it's usually an OHME charger I read about failing to charge with intelligent go.
Yep bingo!
On the 2nd one to as the 1st one failed after about 16 months
Dont think we had a choice on the charge unit , it was all through nhs and my wife’s work
welcome to the **** show...
enjoy a stressful charge at an expensive super market or petrol station...
It doesnt happen too often, but it jsut wrecks any confidence you have in the system.. Maybe charging every day is better because it will even out any issues, as currently my wife only charges it when it at 7% left etc Still, the system needs to be better than this for mass adoption in my view
and you can also buy petrol! with it being a hybrid. But that's still more expensive....
I just wait until the next evening for a charge or might get lucky and it will charge today at some point, but yeah if I need to go out I’ll just use up the petrol at 30mpg or whatever it is lol
I’m not quite ready for a full electric yet… maybe next car
I’m not quite ready for a full electric yet… maybe next car
Yeah imagine if it was full electric like we have here...I just wait until the next evening for a charge or might get lucky and it will charge today at some point, but yeah if I need to go out I’ll just use up the petrol at 30mpg or whatever it is lol
I’m not quite ready for a full electric yet… maybe next car
And If your charger breaks at home, its not the same service as when you have no house power ie hours, expect a 2 week lead time fix, when they can be ****d..
Smart devices / internet connected things aren't made to make your life more convenient though, they were made for the benefit of the company who sells them: so they can harvest data about you to exploit themselves or sell, or charge you more for features that used to be free, or brick your device when they want you to buy a new model, or stop you from servicing/repairing the equipment yourself, etc. This en****ification you're seeing - things becoming harder to use, things that used to work fine "breaking" - is on purpose.I know the feeling, every “smart” device all made to make our life “more convenient” seam to cause more issues than convenience sometimes
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I can agree with that for entry level systems like Alexa but if you dig deep enough, and can program their control with tooling like Home Automation, then you can do more with them.
The issue now is that I understand it but my family doesn’t, so the control of things has moved to one person. The home heating is far more efficient as the rooms hosting people get priority and so heat up quicker. But if anything stops, they don’t know.
The base system for heating is now 10 years old and depreciated by the manufacturer but I had local access so can still use it.
Other old kit has been flashed with other firmware and now runs locally and not via a Chinese site.
With Home Assistant, a Ring camera can trigger inside house lights to be turned on or the heating to be turned up or any other function your IoT has. This is so much more control than old school stuff could do. However, when stuff fails, and your memory of how it needs to be reprogrammed has gone, then I curse it.
The issue now is that I understand it but my family doesn’t, so the control of things has moved to one person. The home heating is far more efficient as the rooms hosting people get priority and so heat up quicker. But if anything stops, they don’t know.
The base system for heating is now 10 years old and depreciated by the manufacturer but I had local access so can still use it.
Other old kit has been flashed with other firmware and now runs locally and not via a Chinese site.
With Home Assistant, a Ring camera can trigger inside house lights to be turned on or the heating to be turned up or any other function your IoT has. This is so much more control than old school stuff could do. However, when stuff fails, and your memory of how it needs to be reprogrammed has gone, then I curse it.
Tariffs vary regionally
The reduction was something to do with the removal of the green levies on April 1st. Im on a 12 month fixed tariff from mid February start and overnight rate was originally 7.50p per unit but on April 1st my overnight rate reduced to 3.99p. Daytime rate also came down by 3 or 4p a unit.
For my overnight EV charging it’s now costing the equivalent of 13 pence a litre. EVs are so cheap to fuel.
For my overnight EV charging it’s now costing the equivalent of 13 pence a litre. EVs are so cheap to fuel.