f1eng
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- Frank
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I could only fit 18 panels on my complex south facing roof and get a peak of 3.25 KW and a maximum of 20kWh per day on sunny days.I ordered solar with batteries mid June, installed 1st week of August.
Charging an EV through solar seems like a pipe dream. The house in general saps the output on most days so there’s no surplus for an EV charge…unless it was a super sunny day and everything in the house was switched off I guess. Even then the draw from the car would probably take from the grid
my solar company told me to forget about using solar for EV charging and just accept that you’re just paying the electricity company for miles not the petrol station. Which will soon be equally expensive sadly
I have a device that diverts any excess to the immersion heater of a big "heat store" hot water tank. If I use the supplied 3-pin plug charger it does take pretty well all the solar power on a sunny day but most of the time I am buying most of it from the electricity company.
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