How much can a home storage battery run in winter? Our real life examples. 

Yes, I know, you can stagger your appliances to help reduce the peak load. I always forget to say something in these videos and it always comes back to bite me! Thanks for all the (many) comments pointing this out. My personal view is that I'm happy to accept a few pence of grid power per day but if you want to stagger your tea and toast by all means do so. Take it easy, all, and I'll see you in the next video.

This shows, how we took everything granted before we realized that energy is a precious thing.

It's amazing how all these systems makes you so aware of your power usage. We have gotten used to switching things on one after another where we can....eg boil the kettle, then switch on the microwave.

very good visual testing... thanks for the info

Thanks. Peak load is a simple but key issue that every person who is buying a system considers carefully. Very nicely demonstrated here. Well done both.

Great video. Some great information in there. Thanks :).

Our Tesla Powerwall is sufficient to run our detached house off-grid the vast majority of the time. In winter we use cheap overnight electricity (Octopus Go) to charge our EV, heat our hot water and run our UFH. Six months ago we switched from a kerosene powered Rayburn to an ASHP, and this combined with our solar PV and battery storage is saving us a small fortune.

Great video, very informative, keep up the great work guys!

Excellent, thanks

I'm looking forward to doing something just like this. You may want to boil kettle 1st then do your toast. Love the video

A star is born. When is Kat starting her own RU-vid channel?

HI KAT... WELCOME TO THE SHOW.😺

Great content

One other high usage electrical appliances that most people forget about is the electric shower - that will draw from 7kwh to 10kwh depending on your shower. Depending on your family each usage can last from 10 mins onwards.

Very interesting and thank you for sharing. We only just got solar installed back in October and are considering battery storage from 2023. They cost a lot 😅 but at current energy prices and further increases in the way, maybe I might break even in 6 years rather than 12-15 years estimated on our solar system (3.2kwp with solar edge inverter) By the way… I love your kitchen slick, clean and very nice!

useful, thankyou

Tin and Kat great video. I have battery's myself and being aware of your usage is really very important indeed. My battery runs out much earlier in the winter months for sure but we try and reduce our usage. You have to continue life so you will use more. To save I have freezer in the garage and American fridge on timers that switch off the appliances for a period of 7 hours per day on the high rate use. Bearing in mind no one is opening it and closing it. When we have a break with good light so checking weather forecast is key to maximizing your system. So we would boil water using solar then flask it up for teas and coffee.when we need one say during day it's normally hot enough if not I will put in a cup of hot flask water to boil again but it's very quick with little KW as it's already hot. We have now managed to bring our homes KW over night and during the day to 150w as we switch everything off , so nothing is now on standby. We have noticed a huge difference in KW usage and our pockets. Next year my project is to buy a EV battery to use for my home use. But again it's how much it costs to save.

Great video. My Fronuis Gen 24 10kW with BYD batteries manages to cover our peak usage. Not sure why they are not more popular in the UK. Only downside is they have only just started allowing you to charge off peak overnight but software always improving. Lovely to see Kat and hopefully she will feature more in the future. I have really enjoyed getting my partner enthused will the solar/batter lifestyle.

If we were to have blackouts, the issue with exceeding the limit when there is no grid to draw from is that the inverter shuts off. Which is massively inconvenient. Keep up the great work.

just starting to explore the bettery storage options with the energy prices now been off the scale so to speak so thanks for your video well done

Thanks for this, good demonstration. I’ve been struggling with this topic myself as I didn’t like the idea of spending all that money on a solar/battery setup with all that stored power and still drawing from the grid in the evenings. I’ve ended up settling, after MUCH deliberation, for the GivEnergy All-in-one (I appreciate this wasn’t available when you made this vid), as I’m attracted by the 6kw output / peak of 7.2. My installer is happy anyway as I’ve driven them mad with questions over the last 2 weeks before finally arriving at the setup I was looking for.

Plan ahead boil the kettle before putting the toaster on get a 2 draw hair firer. Do a load of washing on off peak as well as the dishwasher

If I wanted to be really frugal I could always use my slow cooker which is rated at 50 watts. Of course as mentioned one wouldn't necessarily use all appliances at once.

I like your content and delivery style. To the point. Any news on the libbi availability and price ?

I've only just seen this video ... and yes, I have subscribed. The detail you mention in the video was exactly the same stuff I researched when I was deciding what type of system to go for. After speaking with two or three companies about solar panels and batteries I opted to go for the following. A Sunsynk 5kw hybrid Inverter with DC coupled DMEGC 405watt solar panels, 16 in number, in two arrays, SE and SW facing ... feeding 2 Sunsynk 5.12kw batteries, 10.24kw in total. Typical house base load is around 150-250watts without heavy loads. The system was installed first week in Feb 2023 and even with cloudy days is holding its own very well with low winter sunshine. Even on overcast but bright days it generates in excess of 500watts and during very bright cloudless days even though the sun is still at low azimuth ... it recharges my batteries from a depleted level of 40% capacity back up to 100% by late lunchtime. It's max generation I've seen so far is roughly 4.3kwp and gaining as the sun rises higher in the sky. The Sunsynk batteries are fully BMS controlled and match the inverter perfectly ... with full comms via app or home computer. Incidently we never stagger anything, we just go for it ... The future looks good so far. Hope this helps.

I'm in tthe process of getting quotes atm, the front runner uses GivEnergy too, will definitely be holding out for Gen2 stock.

We have a Moixa battery and the peak charge and discharge is just 2kw , even with this low level you can just about get it to work ,it a bit of a game, but when I don’t mind playing! We no longer use the kettle instead use the induction hob as can reduce the output to match our load .

Looked at a few of your videos, interested to see your thinking and this one is a very nice demonstration I've not seen before. There is an option I think you did not highlight, that is to delay the toaster until the kettle has boiled. After all, will you notice if making toast is delayed by a couple of minutes (Tea brew time). That would be a zero cost option for keeping within limits of a battery (depending on it's capability). We've had Powerwall 2 for four years (next week) and found one of the big benefits of a battery is no longer needing to run things in cheap time overnight. I wouldnt be without it now, we only charge from Sun or in Go cheap period. However, a small amount of scheduling during the day can be required in winter (to keep under 5kW demand), but it is easy. From experience I would say always go for biggest flow in/out of battery that's in your budget. Many things don't take as much as you think, ovens for instance, big use during heating but once up to temperature the insulation is very good these days and consumption drops off massively. My personal preference is AC connected battery as the Inverter becomes SPOF if you have Hybrid (my understanding - happy to be corrected) resulting in loss of PV and battery if it fails (as I said, personal choice).

Many thanks Tim (& Kat) - top hint to save you some energy & thoroughly enjoy breakfast more (Kit that is). Make oats in milk (or almond milk) the night before and leave it in the fridge; no hob or microwave required & it is so much better too 😋 try it and let us know 😃

Really good vid and started to follow. I am looking at solar and batteries and currently the top option is a SE option, 9pkw, with 8k SE inverter and an SE battery DC coupled. So my max I think would be 8k.... enough for anything needed really.

I’m subscribed to this to see the changes after you have your system installed. I went through similar exercises and then I was guilty of becoming obsessed and then getting all shouty when the Mrs put multiple things on at the same time. I learnt quickly when seeing what the excess peaks cost post PV / battery to not stress the small stuff. To focus on the bigger consumers like the dishwasher / washing machine which are sustained loads and can easily be shifted to off peak and no battery draw. You can’t shift teatime and I personally wouldn’t size a system to cater for the one off peaks neither would I compromise on lasagne OR chips -Your peak time usage should be so low after getting the system installed you’ll look back and chuckle (My daily usage is ~18kWh off peak with about 0.5kWh peak with a SolarEdge 10kWh battery and 3.8kw inverter - I can live with that)

The oven will switch on and off as it reaches temperature, each switch on and off will lead to drawing from the grid as the batteries are delayed by 30 seconds each time - then the pennies stack up pretty quickly and there is no way round it I think if you are connected to the grid - Good video and illustrates the problem of peak usage beyond the capacity of the batteries

Our oven has a "boost" function (4kW) when pre-heating then it drops to about 2kW. So a reasonable mealtime load in the kitchen is 4kW for a short time, the 900W microwave and the kettle for brief periods. The peak could be kept at or below the 5kW Inverter output by not using either the kettle or the microwave while the oven is in boost mode.

Really interesting and informative videos. I’m just about to start on this journey, and it is hard to cut through the green washing and misinformation - the 4x return on energy inputs from an ASHP being a prime example. I hope you don’t have any near neighbours, as we had new houses built next door to us, all with ASHPs, and the droning noise was so bad that we had to move. One of the new owners invited his daughter to stay over Christmas and she left after one night as the noise from the heat pump was so bad. If you are in a town you may not notice it, but in a quiet countryside location they are murder. Make sure you go and listen to your chosen pump first at a quiet time of day

great video. What package do you use to monitor your usage

Interesting experiment. I will confess I sat down with a calculator when I was doing the checks. I managed to do two things. 1) Get 36 solar panels and 2 by 5kw Solaredge inverters (aka max 10 kw of solar). 2) Get 2x Lux 3.6 AC inverters which on average provide up to 6.6KW combined power. This means that on a really good day in May we could have 8 to 9 kw from the Solar and up to 7kw from the batteries. The average over the year is more likely 4 to 5kw of solar, but this does allow for a large amount of flexibility. The key to all of this is agreement from the DNO, they need to agree that in the worse circumstances you could dump that amount of power on the grid. Of course, having 2 of the inverters increases the installation costs, but from a utility point of view it makes a big difference. We do seem to have the washing machine, tumble dryer and dish washer running most of the time, but that is what happens with a young family.

My wife goes on about the double carbs but I really like lasagne and chips.

Tim, you are doing a great job, thanks for your info videos. We are planning on getting a "Giv-HY 5.0 Gen 2" inverter with 4 x "Giv-Bat 9.5" batteries. This is to help power our 3-holiday lets &pool/ spa facilities. I understand each batter has 3.6KW charge/discharge power. As we have more than 1 battery we can achieve the full 5KW inverter output power. Is that correct, or will I only be limited to 3.6KW?

Hi Tim and Kat, just a couple of things to think about here. First I would suggest you check very carefully that a 5KW inverter will be enough for the panels you propose as I’m not sure it will. I understand that east west will reduce the noontime peak, but I have 7.7KW of panels with a 7KW inverter and on the best days this last summer I saw over 6 generation (my panels are slightly south west/north east, but still split 12 panels on west and 8 on east. The other thing that you want to consider in terms of the load that would be covered by a hybrid inverter, is that the issue isn’t so much the peak load it’s more the large sustained loads that are the issue. In your example of the kettle that’s on for a couple of minutes, it’s only going to be some of that load that would be from the grid as most of it will be from solar or batteries assuming they have sun or charge respectively, however even if the whole of that was from the grid it would be around 0.1 of a kWh or 3p of electricity. On the other hand the tumble drier or the oven has a load over a longer time and so you will use much more in the way of kWh from that type of appliance. We have found that by running the devices such as dishwasher and washing machine one at a time, you can really reduce grid usage. Most of the inverters of the type that you are considering will have the 3.68KW limit due to trying to avoid the need for the other type of assessment by the electricity supply company as that’s apparently a lot more effort.

hi there, thank you for the content. I think power rating of the inverter/charger is a primary factor when deciding on the ESS (energy storage solution). According to the video you draw about 6 to 7 kWh during the morning and about 4 to 5 at night. There was no information about the day time use. However modern battery systems are made to power the whole house provided they fitted with the adequate inverter.

I also have solar, you can use a feedback tariff during the day to offset the peak costs should you have to use a high power device even at peak times.

Like you we Boil the Kettle, make Toast and Porridge in the Microwave. Kettle is put on, when it has Boiled Microwave is started and when eating the Porridge the Toaster is put on, so if you spread the load the Battery has no problem copping.

I have a very similar Neff oven, the full consumption is only as it is heating up, it uses very little when running, for morning porridge, use the gas hob and real porridge, takes only a couple of minutes and tastes soo much better and is much cheaper than microwave porridge! Our Powerwall gives a very steady 5kW output when needed.

We have a 14 kWp solar array, 2 x ev, an air source heat pump coupled with a 5 year old Tesla powerwall 2. Because we have the DNO limit of 5.5 kW, the Tesla powerwall has a limit of the maximum 5 kW available to us and on top, the 3 inverters of the 14 kW solar array so we tend to do heavy loads during the daylight hours like the air source heat pump, washing and of course, electric car charging even on bright days in November. We use Octopus go to charge the powerwall to full every night during winter time and we have successfully avoided buying peak rate electricity, except for the reaction times from the powerwall from the induction cooker.

Great video - apologies for the silly question but where do you get the meter from?

It does seem rather daft in a post energy crisis era just how high a rate of energy consumption we use to heat a small amount of food. Alternative food warming solutions will be needed, a 1kw kettle will solve a lot of the problems. Argos have them for £10-£15.

My 11.8kWh batteries run my house for about 6 hours in the winter and about 20 hours in the summer. Everything in my house is electric including my heat pump, (for heating and hot water), cooking and hot tub

average power & stand by power is all the battery is designed for. Best advice i could give. Get it installed and & forget. System wait time on order is 6mts, don’t also forget the battery only install system is NETT + Vat. Saving are normally £50 month Also expect your installer to say the cost of material is only valid for 28 days, Payback 8-9 years.

We’ve had a Givenergy 3.6kW hybrid installed for a year with 3.6kWp of panels and 8.2kWh battery. A watch out when looking at the inverter output for peak loads, each single battery can only output 2.4-2.6kW power, same for charging. The rest up to the inverter max would have to be supplemented either by a second battery or if the solar is producing. During the summer I just set our timers to stagger things like the dishwasher and washing machine. It’s obvious to be able to tell when their heating cycles are running using the monitoring app with Givenergy. Long running constant loads are best for the Givenergy system as it can take a few seconds for the battery to react and start covering the load. Our small oven in our microwave drives it nuts cycling the heating element off and on constantly. We’ve ditched our kettle to the cupboard. Now use a stove kettle on the induction hob. Means we can boil at 1.2kW if we want, handy if there are other loads on like the toaster. During summer, the system can put out enough to run both without pulling from the grid.

My impression is that the biggest factor in supporting the peak load is the capacity of your inverter. Whatever the size of your solar array or battery is, the output would be the max supported by the inverter which in most cases is 3.6Kw. This is the max inverter capacity for a G98 application.

Just had Guv energy 6.4KW array plus 9.5KW and soon realised that you have to put high load items on one at a time rather than all at the same time. So no Kettle , microwave and oven in at the same time !

The temperature of the battery plays a part too, if your battery is installed outside, in a garage or loft and it is below 20'c then it will not be able to provide 3.6kw. I have heard that at 10'c the output drops to around 2.8kw

Kat's choice of porridge in the morning is excellent, not only is it healthy but its the choice of champions and Scottish (which I just happen to be!) I use an Air fryer for most things if I can as it is more efficient. The main draw that I have from the grid if I dont have solar and battery is the electric shower which is 9kWh for the duration of the shower but then if i have battery it gets 3.6 from that and solar at full production gives me another 3.5 kWh so best scenario is i can be OFF GRID when its a battery and solar production of 7kWh. Thanks for sharing your information

Our setup is:- 7.2 kWp Solar Array with 5 kW inverter 27 kWh Tesla Powerwall Storage & Gateway 1 x 7 kW Car Charger for Solar Excess 2 x 22 kW Car Chargers for Fast Grid 8 kW Heat Pump 1 x Tesla Model 3 Performance Car 1 x Skoda Enyaq VRS Car (on order) 3 Phase Smart Meter on Octopus Go EPC A+ Rated House Retrofit in 2021 (EPC Scored 107 out of 100)

Could we have a "Tim and Kat's Green Walk" video with the two of you in green fields or forests, walking arm in arm, pointing out things to each other off-camera and laughing, perhaps soundtracked by Greensleeves or similar?

I have 10 kWh Solar Edge Battery rated with 5 kW output. However the Inverter is only 4 kWp which limits the amount it can draw from the battery. The grid is also quicker to pick up extra power needs than the battery; whenever we turn something on there is always a few watts drawn from the grid. As for your examples have you ever though of turning the toaster on after the kettle has boiled?

Hi Tim ..I have a query .I got two quotes one with solis 5kw and puredrive 2 5kwh battery and another with Giv energy gen 2 hybrid and 5.12 kwh givenergy battery . Which one should I go for . The charge and discharge rate is better on solis and puredrive I beleieve. What is your honest opinion. Thank you

Really interesting comparison work, the kettle draw is one of the reason we wend for a hot tap, it draws less at spike and makes coffee/tea making a 20 second task instead of waiting for the kettle, the temp recovery on the system is really short too as it's only topping up a cup volume, not a whole kettles worth

Am I right that the charge and discharge rate will also effect how much you will be able to charge your storage during a cheap tariff window? so the 5kWh might be necessary if you have a 4 hour window and 20kWhs of storage?

Haha I literally did this test myself the other week, even went as far as to measure one pan on the induction hob for all 10 heat settings. I noticed you have the same sage nespresso machine I used to have before it broke, be interested to know what that uses both for a shot of espresso and then the steamer?

I guess peak is a luxury you look at after total consumption or kWh storage capacity is more important then single peak load when it comes to sizing your battery. Ie I’m having 5kwh installed soon it won’t matter if it can’t cover peak load it my daily load is above 5kwh as I know I’ll need some grid supply anyway.

We have a 5.5kw Hybrid Inverter and a 21kWh battery pack which handles all our needs, but we do have to monitor our useage because we don't have a Eddi. Your video is interesting to compare, but one thing you might want to include is the recharging of the battery pack, as the charging rate can vary between Inverters usually 60A - 100A DC. This will determin the time taken to charge the battery pack to 100% within the cheap tariff time frame of four or five hours. Our Inverter charges at 60A (DC) which translates into 3kw x 4 hours will provide 12kWh of stored energy. Plus our up rate house fuse is 80A so we can charge everything over night including 2 EV cars, one Battery Pack, and a Sunamp and a ASHP which can also kick in adding the final 2kw making it 18kw drawn from the grid at one time, which falls just below the house fuse limit at 78A. We can take measure to avoid this by swapping the car chargers over, as one of the cars can only charge at 3kw. We have a 7kw and a 3kw wall chargers and by swapping the plugs over so that the 7kw car charges at 3kw and the 3kw stays as is, so dropping the 78A down to safer level of 65A. Thinking ahead does save any unforceens!!

I have a 10kw lux power inverter and 3 x Greenlinx 3.6 kw batteries that seem to be able to handle 5.5kw charge and discharge.

Just get a bigger inverter and up the storage capability to take into account the extra draw. Or put in a separate system off grid to help out on some of the other devices. Unless you're going to produce lots of power it's all about balance.

You will only be able to additionally draw from the solar, on peak loads, if you have an AC coupled system. I don't know if that includes the majority of commercial home battery installs? On my DC coupled system, I have the GTI capacity, and that is it. In my case the max I can offset is 900W, but as you point out, the peak loads are only transient. It is the quiescent loading that dominates my power useage. Scaling the GTI up to cover peak loads would just not be cost effective.

Have you tried to make one thing at the time so that high load doesn't become a problem? anyway a kettle or toaster just takes few seconds or minutes to run

Having 3.6Kw Inverter means that you can only draw 3.6kW usage from solar or battery at a time without having to draw from the grid. So on making breakfast etc first make your toast and then after it's done switch on the kettle to make your hot drink; in that way everything is free. Plan your usage.

Boil the kettle then, while the tea brews, do your toast. 5 mins should be enough to do the toast and then the tea will be ready and you won’t exceed the maximum power draw. It’s about small changes that add up to bigger saving in the long run!

Don’t use a 3kw kettle or stagger the usage… I use a electric airpot that boils the water slower but at 750w… Use things like the glass air fryer and instapot for low energy cooking or rice cooker to boil vegetables and sauces…

I a now looking at a Sunsynk system with 4 x 5.1KW batteries which on Octopus Go will give just over 20KW for 4 hours charge which is my average On peak daily usage and I am thinking that if I use one of their 8KW Inverters that will allow me to draw 8KW (36amps) at any one time What do you think?

If you're grid tied, I really wouldn't worry about the odd peak load from a kettle or toaster, better off paying a few pence for the grid to pick it up than hundreds for the additional inverter capacity.

Great video! 1 thing I'm not 100% sure on though which I'm hoping you may be able to answer. You say that in summer months the limited 2.6kw distribution of battery can be topped up by solar. How does that work? Am I right in thinking it could be 2 6kw fed in by battery & 3.6kw fed in by solar due to 3.6kw inverter giving a total of 6 2kw or am I talking nonsense?

Hi Tim what’s the name of your in House display wich follows your instant consumption please. Thks Yann

Buy a 600watt 2 cup rapid boil travel kettle will save you a small fortune use the 3000 watt kettle only when you need more than 2 mugs of hot drinks

Same applies to just solar PV, you are never going to cover your entire peak demand unless you have 6kw+. The holy grail of all of this of course is Vehicle To Grid, coming on CCS sometime after 2025 it appears...

you need to plan better, put the toaster on and when it pops up then put the kettle on, same with the cooker, when the oven reaches its temp and the lasange goes in then put the chips in the air fryer which takes less time to cook anyway, if you plan your consumption when using batteries and the panels to lessen the immediate load there should be no problem

Are you talking about the 3.6kw or the 5kw

And what about when the power cuts come?

I'm looking at a 5+kW PV and 10kWh battery setup and I've been through exactly the same investigation. In my case with a background load of around 600w then switch on 3 induction rings, oven , 1000w microwave (which actually uses 2.1kW) and someone switches on the kettle - I'm drawing 12kW..... I've also downloaded a year's worth of data from my Octopus Go account in 1/2hr time slots, so quite a lot of data. I then analysed it in Excel to give me the range of the kWh load at peak and off-peak rates. N.B. kWh, not Kw so its actual consumption in a 1/2hr, not instantaneous load. I banded this as:

When your peak load exceeds the inverter/battery capacity, does the inverter switch to 100% grid supply or does it continue to output its max from the battery?

Am I right in saying that if your inverter is larger than 3.6kwh, then you need approval from your Distribution Network Operator as they may need to do some upgrades to the electrical network?

Quick question please. With everyone running to get solar and battery s as they think it's the awnser to saving them from huge bills and to have electric when we have black outs.we have recently heard the possibility of more blackouts ,let's see. It's great to see these videos as they hopefully will give a real time understanding of your investment. Also as I like to ask a key point. When we are all in say January every day we wake up to ice outside, we have had a 2 day power cut and it's week day so you need to go to work. So in this rare instants, for me living rural it's actually reality , do you think your battery system will keep you going for 2 to 3 days . Bear in mind we are all being warned of power cuts in the press. For all those who are transitioning from focil to all electric go back to my question. Do you believe your solar and battery s will work out for you. Reality is NO . Your going to be cold , hungry , and cannot wash or use your ev to drive to work. You all need to think about reality , make sure you have some kind of heating available. For those who use focil boilers count your self lucky as a cheap petrol generator will happily fun your heating and hot water and cooking should not be an issue. You will not be able to use a cheap small petrol generator if your home is totally reliant on heat pumps as they need a lot more power to run them. Your solar will not work to charge your battery's as regs shut them down if there is no grid. You may now be thinking what planet is this person from lol. I am from the planet reality, I will always have gas and an heat pump, I will always have a generator spare in case with enough fuel for weeks and yes I have one generator ready just to charge my ev. I hope I never have to use them. I have 13 KW solar system, one off grid 1 bank of 5kw battery and 3kw on my off grid system . All fantastic in the summer, reality October to march not so good. But nothing wrong with having solar or heat pumps or EVs green is good, but when the whole country goes 88% electric this will be interesting on our reliance for electricity. All my eggs in one basket is not what I do.

Have you decided on what PV system you are going get?

Can always stagger your use of hi load items so as not to exceed peak battery capability.

I want a high charge rate so I can stock up on cheap electrons to feed high consumption through the day. ASHP means lots of import, my solar is

Have you found out the life expectancy of your inverter and the cost of replacing it, I was quoted £800 before vat after 4.5 years

Have you considered a boiling water tap? The Quooker uses hardly any power (10W per day to keep the water in the vessel at temperature) and you always get exactly how much you need, so you're not boiling water you're not going to use.

I noticed your equipment uses less power than equipment in Australia, my Microwave uses 1000 watts just on, not running, then another 900 on top of that to cook.

10kWh Inverter and a 20kW Battery is on my wish list. My average is 11kW per day. My peak is 32kW with AirCon in Aug 2022. Also I plan to use more for heater after installation.. any recommendations??

I i want to run everything on electricity (heating a hot water) and dont want solar just batteries to be charged off peak and discharge during day, what solution am i looking at? My daily consumption would be 50kWh tops, as no solar i would looking likely at AC coupled, something modular? Your input is much appreciated…thx

you can expect a charge in your battery in winter of around 1.5kw to maybe 2 max, battery in winter is going to do little the same as solar in winter is going to do very little, thats with a 6kw array, most winter days you can expect pretty much no charge in your battery, batteries are a must tho, they buffer your loads and obviously let you run 24/7 in good daylight hours

My biggest takeaway from this video was the premise of lasagna and chips as a meal. Got enough carbs there guys? 😉

The masses are generally asses and want full use of their back systems but back is only as good as the users knowledge 😁

It doesn’t have peak load just don’t use high wattage appliances at the same time simple! Common sense is needed when using battery back up and technical understanding.👍

I’m sure there is a gd reason you don’t put the chips in the oven along with lasagne so your not having an additional load of the air fryer 🤔

The reason battery manufacturers offer 3.6kW solutions is due to that size and below needing the easier G98 DNO approval rather than G99 that is required for batteries over 3.86kW

It's foolish to think getting off the grid. With the battery and panels, the amount of kWh acquired from the network is simply reduced. Nothing more. What tool is that to see consumption?

At 02:31 it shows how much a 5kw battery saves you per day , you decide if its worth it 🤔

How about a nice 8-10Kw shower!

Thanks, more shit I did not know, solar company does not tell you anything, you didn't say if it could finish cooking your breakfast