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So looks like the battery stack charged up in the night to full power, via the cheaper tariff times, (Octapus Agile) , and this morning Battery Power is supplying the Electricity Load the house, and it looks like grid import power is just a few Watts, so I guess so far so good.

If we actually get ...

I’ve checked the CT location and I’ve moved it to a different mains cable, I think the one that is actually the Grid Feed cable, I think the installation engineer made a genuine mistake and clamped the wrong cable.

I forced charged the batteries for an hour to 20% then switched Work Mode to Self ...

I’ll take a look at that guide.

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Anyway I can see that now my Heatpump is on at 3kW drawing from the grid, I’ve fudged the system so it’s now force discharging at 3kw however Fox App is indicating Load is 6kW, it shows Grid import is 3kw and ...

Well I definitely wanted to cover the Octopus Agile high tariff times of around 16:00 to 19:00 thereabouts, by dumping from Batteries to alleviate Grid Import.

I have now set the Inverter Power discharge down now to 4000W, so its not as fierce a dump of power, the background power drain for the ...

That change if CT direction has just reversed the Current Flow direction and it now looks like I’m Exporting to the Grid, but I’m not, ie PV production is 0.2kW, house load is 0.7kW and I should be importing 0.5kW from grid but it shows Arrow Flow direction as Exporting, so I’m going to switch that ...

If you think its a CT direction issue, that is easily changed I guess and then I could test again?

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Hi there,

I have just had the following equipment installed and from a complete new user point of view trying to quickly master the basics.

14 x Solar Panels (455W each) installed
1 x Fox ESS Hybrid Inverter (6kW) (H1-6.0_E-G2) (master 1.29, slave 1.02, manager 1.44)
5 x Fox Ess ECS4800 batteries ...