Solar Power
Solar PV and Solar Thermal projects, generating our own energy
First year of data and savings from Solar PV array upgrade
02 September 2023
Our solar PV system has saved us £847.18 in the past 12 months, and heating the hot water for free on sunny days with the myenergy eddi solar diverter
02 September 2023
ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter
30 October 2022
Using an ESP32 WiFi module to create a ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Solar PV Inverter to log data with Home Assistant
30 October 2022
myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi
28 August 2022
We got the new eddi V2.1 from myenergi with built-in WiFi and ethernet to add to our home solar system and Home Assistant.
28 August 2022
Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished
19 July 2022
Our new 1.6kW solar array has now been fitted and is working much better than we expected
19 July 2022
Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging
17 May 2022
A new solar PV inverter installed with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging
17 May 2022
Solar Panel Supplier Zero Home Bills Scammed me out of £640
26 March 2022
I fell for an online scam from a fake online store for solar panels and lost a lot of money
26 March 2022
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32
20 August 2021
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module
20 August 2021
Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Version 2
30 November 2015
Time to replace our Raspberry Pi solar data logger with a new version 2 revision with more features and sensors
30 November 2015
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Optical Interface Noise Fail
11 November 2015
Trying to add an optical interface to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter but had problems with unwanted RF noise from the inverter
11 November 2015
USB Smart Charger with Bluetooth LE
11 August 2015
Designing a USB smart charger with wireless power monitoring.
11 August 2015
Powerpole Fused Distribution Board Case
31 July 2015
Making a plastic case for the Powerpole Fused Distribution Board
31 July 2015
Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering
04 September 2014
The Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter has an issue where is it causing a lot of RF interference so we added additional RF Filtering and screening to try to reduce the unwanted radio emissions
04 September 2014
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter RF Interference
18 July 2014
Tracking down the source of RF Interference across the HF bands and it was the Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter
18 July 2014
Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger v2 Plans
22 July 2013
Planning to build a new Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger version two to replace our current data logger
22 July 2013
Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi
10 June 2013
Using a Windows Phone and a Raspberry Pi to control our home's gas-powered central heating system
10 June 2013
ADC Pi
8 Channel 17-bit Single-Ended Analogue to Digital Converter for the Raspberry Pi.
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