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Solar PV and Solar Thermal projects, generating our own energy

First year of data and savings from Solar PV array upgrade Photo
First year of data and savings from Solar PV array upgrade
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

ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter Photo
ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter
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

myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi Photo
myenergi eddi solar power diverter installation with WiFi
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.

Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished Photo
Home Solar PV Panels Upgrade Finished
Our new 1.6kW solar array has now been fitted and is working much better than we expected

Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging Photo
Solar Upgrade Solis 1.5kW inverter and Raspberry Pi RS485 Logging
A new solar PV inverter installed with Raspberry Pi RS485 data logging

Solar Panel Supplier Zero Home Bills Scammed me out of £640 Photo
Solar Panel Supplier Zero Home Bills Scammed me out of £640
I fell for an online scam from a fake online store for solar panels and lost a lot of money

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32 Photo
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Wi-Fi logging adapter with ESP32
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module

Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Version 2 Photo
Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Version 2
Time to replace our Raspberry Pi solar data logger with a new version 2 revision with more features and sensors

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Optical Interface Noise Fail Photo
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Optical Interface Noise Fail
Trying to add an optical interface to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter but had problems with unwanted RF noise from the inverter

USB Smart Charger with Bluetooth LE Photo
USB Smart Charger with Bluetooth LE
Designing a USB smart charger with wireless power monitoring.

Powerpole Fused Distribution Board Case Photo
Powerpole Fused Distribution Board Case
Making a plastic case for the Powerpole Fused Distribution Board

Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering Photo
Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering
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

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter RF Interference Photo
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter RF Interference
Tracking down the source of RF Interference across the HF bands and it was the Mastervolt Soladin 600 Inverter

Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger v2 Plans Photo
Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger v2 Plans
Planning to build a new Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger version two to replace our current data logger

Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi Photo
Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi
Using a Windows Phone and a Raspberry Pi to control our home's gas-powered central heating system

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