Thanks for your videos, your Toshiba A2A videos were a massive help and gave me the confidence to get the system installed in my own home, and I’ve adopted a modified version of your rule of thumb spreadsheet. Keep up the great work!
My fav video of yours is the rule of thumb tariff one, or most of the spreadsheet ones! 😅 Chips and lasagne 😂 It's always the smallest things that viewers pick up on. Helps the algorithm though! Wow, thanks for the shout out! Your channel and Gary's were really the key channels for inspiring me! The sofa chat with Kat seems to bring out your personality a bit more Tim. Nice to see.😊 Keep up the great work. Here's to the next 100!
Thank you! And no problem on the shout out, I've been watching your journey with interest. I'm glad to have helped inspire you to share your own experiences in turn. Looks like you're zooming right now too, so you're clearly doing something right!
Congratulations on your 100th video, i found you after Higel suggest that i get Air To Air and so far I'm really pleased, i must find your one on leaving the heat pump on over night , ive only had this Air to Air since June so im still playing with the settings and it's been a funny year with the weather . Funny i went to the dentist yesterday and they have Air to Air fitted since my last visit in April. I'm waiting for a call soon from my gas installer about this years service i think he will be disapointed when i tell him I've had the gas removed .
Ah, excellent. I hope it works out well for you over the Winter. I certainly can't complain, it's been very comfortable the last two winters we've had it running.
Really appreciate your videos - between you, Upside Down Fork, Speak to the Geek and EV Puzzle I just put down a deposit on a 20 panel array and good battery today! Your videos are great, long may they continue! And lasagne and chips is not weird. 😂
Very nice, 20 panels is a cracking sized array. Should do you well. And thank you for confirming that lasagna and chips is not weird! I knew we couldn't be the only ones.
Always such a pleasure to watch your informative videos. Don't underestimate the green impact you've had through influence to your viewers, then all the connections they pass it on to. The proof is in the pudding for the transition and you show clearly how it can work and work for the better.
Thank you for keeping your videos real. I unsubscribed from one of the channels you mentioned as it turned in to an infomercial channel, with 6 out of the 6 most recent vids being "i was sent this".
Congrats on the 100 videos. You have definitely contributed to my journey. I started with an EV as my ICE car prematurely died. After this opening the door, I now have solar and battery storage and now just had my ASHP installation finished and oil tank taken away! Hearing the mindset that payback isnt what its all about is helpful, makes me think im not mad and definitely permeates the subconscious! Congrats!!
Very nice. For us it was the solar that was planned first, although we ended up getting the A2A heat pump before the solar due to delays, with the EV following along after. It's amazing how well it all works in combination. Congrats on getting rid of your oil tank!
WoW! 100 vids, that's a hell of a lot of time devoted to sharing your journey, experiences and pertinent information to help others all in a non egotistical way. Thank you both. All of a sudden....PONDS sound appealing 😂
I'm just starting my solar journey and watching your videos and those made by Gary and Dan have been so helpful. I thought your visit to GivEnergy was a good one.
As one of the 5th 5th who watched to the end, thank you for this video. I enjoyed it. I also watched Tim's "can't smell gas" one, which I found interesting.
Nice! I'm glad you enjoyed our ramble, and found the smell video interesting. These sofa chat videos we do are never super popular but we enjoy doing them regardless. As long as a few people watch them it's all good!
Great to see you have made the big 100. I found your video about not being able to smell gas interesting as I think I may be in the same position as you. We have gotten rid of it too.
Really enjoyed this video, though I am also a big fan of spreadsheets. Your detailed and in-depth investigation into various areas of green tech has been invaluable and instrumental some of our choices, so thank you! One topic I would be more interested in knowing more about is control systems. Our setup has been built gradually over the last few years and involves kit from GivEnergy and MyEnergi, plus a non-smart heat pump. It’s kind of a nightmare constantly having to switch things on and off to stop them going rogue and stealing each other’s power, especially now that we have things like Saving Sessions and Free Electricity from Octopus. I think there’s a real need for something that brings all of these together but is designed for people who can’t handle complicated Home Assistant.
That's a good question and not something I have a good answer to. I know you can get third party service that can optimise GivEnergy batteries, for example, but I don't know of any that control multiple things together. For us, I tend to set up schedules using the various apps and then more or less leave them to it. Like having the water heating at the same time as the battery is charging overnight so that the battery isn't drained by heating the water (same with charging the car). But that's only possible right now because daytime export rates are higher than overnight import rates, so it's better to do as much as possible overnight. If tariffs change that strategy won't necessarily work!
You’re right, scheduling does solve a lot of problems but we’ve found that it only gets you so far! For example, GivEnergy have a ridiculous setting whereby you can either activate Eco mode to support house load, OR have a scheduled export. Not both. So you have to set Eco all day then have a reminder to manually turn on forced export when you get to the evening and want to earn money from whatever you’ve got left in the battery. And I would love to have the Eddi scheduled overnight to help with hot water on cold mornings, but if you switch it on then there’s no way of telling it to ignore spare solar generation in the meantime (which is more profitable to export). It all makes my poor little brain hurt!
@@pocoheywood4007 for our inverter (Gen 2 hybrid) our eco mode comes back on after the timed export period ends, but I've heard that's not the case for all of them for some reason. Try updating your inverter firmware to the latest version, you might find that helps.
Awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to make those suggestions! The Eddi setting should solve that problem, but sadly the latest firmware update for my GivEnergy 3rd Gen AC coupled inverter still has the text “Eco: This setting will use your battery or solar to power your home’s electric demand, enabling this setting will disable timed export”. Ignoring the fact that it’s crying out for a semicolon to replace the abused comma, I guess that’s just something we’ll have to live with. I appreciate the suggestion though!
Spreadsheet video fan here, I watched the EV charge vid a second time before I got my Seat Mii though. I used your code when I signed up to Octopus then. Maybe do a house tour with all the items and include the pond in that? Does it have a fountain? If so is it louder than the air con unit? I avoided the compost one because I didn't want RUclips to recommend me more compost videos 😂 Maybe offer some spreadsheet training videos for money? A linked in / patreon training course maybe?
Haha! That is fair enough, who knows what signals RUclips would pick up from that video. I'm glad you enjoy the spreadsheet videos. I had no idea there was such an appetite for them when I started. Good idea about the house tour, that is something I've wondered about doing too. No fountain in the pond, it's a wildlife pond so is very naturalistic and no fish either. And thank you for using my Octopus code, I really appreciate that!
Brilliant review of your back catalogue. Had me in stitches, chips and lasagne...who knew it was so controversial. The ROI thing was another hilarious topic. I took early retirement just over 2 years ago and the Solar Pv, battery and EV have reduced our overall running costs. Love the content and spreadsheets. More Tim and Kat videos, this was so much fun. Thanks
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed our little ramble! We have such fun recording these chat videos, I'd like to fit them in a bit more regularly from now on, if we can. Hopefully I can carve out a bit of time from Kat 's busy schedule every now and then.
Our bungalow largest space for solar panel is a north(ish) facing roof, so if you do go down that route I’d certainly be interested, I’m a fan of micro inverters but I’m not sure they would make sense on a near north facing roof, if I every got around to putting solar on it, but I’ll worry about that after I’ve put as much as I can on the South, East and West roofs. Oh and I watched you video of gas removal and your lack of smell at the time when you first released it !My fav vids were the several on the Haori Air2Air and the Mixergy iHP tank. As they are my preferred/current most likely solutions for our bungalow. Best Wishes 😊
Great to hear. There will be quite a few more iHP videos in due course and now that I've got all the kit I feel it's probably time for a full house review video sooner or later. UpsideDownFork is worth a look if you've not seen his NW array yet.
I have an in-roof system with SolarEdge optimizers and insisted that they were fitted in the loft. It took a great deal of extra work and cable but changing a faulty one is just minutes rather than most of the panels having to come off and possibly compromising the installation. Congratulations on your 100th Tim & Kat. Please don’t put your spreadsheets behind a paywall, they are the most interesting and the best I have seen. As a pensioner I do not have the spare cash for those sort of costs. Like you I spent the capital we have to bring my costs to a known amount. To ease the pain as we get even older, I probably won’t live to see a pay-back but the system brings the bills to a manageable monthly amount. They would have been zero until the WFA was removed. I follow all the others you mentioned but enjoy yours the most.
@@stevejudyrobinson1771 if I'd had optimisers/microinverters I think I'd have done the same with installing them in the loft. It makes a lot of sense. I'm glad you enjoy the channel, that means a lot to us.
Congrats on your 100th video 🎉 Sorry for arriving late to this video, my fault I know, I wasn't subscribed until now (you're only my second channel subscription) and RUclips didn't suggest this video until today despite the fact that I've watched nearly all your other offerings; I'm now so intrigued that I'm even going to watch the pond videos as soon as I've posted this. I appreciate that the videos must take a huge amount of time, and the spreadsheets must too. Something tells me that you really enjoy creating those spreadsheets though, and I wouldn't be surprised if you'd create some of them even without the channel. Btw, I love the sofa chat videos, a definite 👍 from me. Here's looking forward to the next 100 videos.
Wow, I feel honoured! I tend to use my subscription feed on RUclips to find videos from folks I follow, which makes it easier. That might be worth checking out. Although I subscribe to quite a few channels so it definitely helps! You're right, I do tend to create other spreadsheets on the side but most are not for public consumption and are quite messy, quick tests, that sort of thing. Sometimes they evolve into the ones you see on the channel. I'm glad you enjoy the sofa chat videos, I will try to fit more in to the schedule as they became a bit scarce recently. We really enjoy recording those ones.
A great video, thanks I always watch your channel with interest as well as your friends channels. I am also considering a North facing array in Gloucestershire.
Tim/Kat, finally somebody else that is/has been doing this journey and considers the impact on retirement. I can say that journey can work as I have retired early time year, and one of the main contributing factors when doing the maths (sorry not good with spreadsheets) that is allowing that is reduced energy cost. Previously my energy DD was £279 per month, now it's £1 and that really is only to make sure I get the free Nero's coffee each week from Octopus :-). I also have a possible decision on north facing panels to extend the current system. Keep up the great work and I hope to bump into you at one of the shows
Congrats on the 100th video I'm sorry to say I haven't watched your pond videos, however can you post a picture of it now as you say it is so good. I don't understand the EV haters, I've been battling with them and misinformation for years now on social media. Lasagne and chips... What's wrong with that? Tim are you looking at getting a larger EV to go along with. Kat's small EV, so you can be totally ICE free household?
Yeah, maybe I could do a community post about the pond. We are indeed planning on replacing my car with an EV too. I quite like the look of the Cupra Raval, which comes out next year. I still prefer a small car, super mini size, really. We have no need for anything much bigger tbh.
@@TimAndKatsGreenWalk I drive a Kia Soul which has a 64kWh battery Now we're old and the kids have flown the nest there really isn't any need to drive around a large car. I also have solar and battery storage, albeit the solar is coming up to 9 years old, battery storage i put in last spring. Next step is the air to air heat pump. I put two units in back in 2009, which were put in mainly to cool the living room and our bedroom, but I'm thinking of removing them and replacing it with a multi split over the whole house. I'm debating which rooms at the moment. If you don't mind me asking what is the maximum demand from your system when it first fires up on a cold day and what does it settle down too to maintain the temperature? Rob
@@blobstrom sure, no problem. I'd say that most of the time it doesn't draw more than about 2kW initially and depending on the outside temperature that might only last half an hour or so before settling down to 1 kW or less. We tend to leave it on for most of the day (and during the off-peak period overnight, as per the video I mentioned) so generally it just ticks along at a low power.
I for one do appreciate all the videos. Not doing hot water on Electricity so missed those but everything else has been very helpful. How do you manage on the max kW from the Gen2 inverter. Do you just accept that you will have to use topup full price electricity or do you try and make sure you are not Boiling the Kettle as you put the Microwave on? I went for the AIO so that we can get a full 6kW but even then we do get some over topping. The Northfaciing panels with bidirectional or even Perovskite could just work but much lower payback. But if green is more relevant then it will help.
We don't tend to worry about the power output of the Gen 2 inverter, the amount of time it's exceeded is so small that it barely registers most days. I reckon it amounts to a couple of pence per day of peak rate power, so in practice there's no point us worrying about further optimising our lifestyles around the 3.6 kW limit. That's not to say that a higher output wouldn't be welcome, of course, but we don't let the it dictate our lives.
For info. over the last year my NW facing panels have achieved 60% generation compared to my SE facing panels. Another advantage of NW panels is that they generate when most needed and when the export price is highest (Flux). A potential topic for future blogs could be control of oversized systems. For example I have a 13 kWp system with an 8kW inverter but only a 4.5kW max export limit, so I have to keep tweaking my Solar Edge control options to suit the conditions in order to maximise generation (profit) by minimising the amount of time when the system is ‘clipping’.
Yes, that's a good topic to cover. We're thankfully never subject to clipping with our E/W array but it's definitely a common issue that's worth addressing. I'll see what I can do.
The spreadsheet videos are great. The fact that the cost has a good correlation with how green the action is means that the green video is to an extent redundant. So I can see why I link to one and not the other. For me, saving money allows me to direct time and money on the next green thing, be it insulation, green travel or green food consumption (the various areas we have to decarbonise). As are the green planning videos-solar/heat loss etc.. I would imagine demand shifting will become increasingly important as the grid decarbonises for 2030. Us and our providers shifting our usage, charging and even generation will be a big thing.
Yes, indeed, load shifting is going to be crucial in the coming years. It's good to be able to be part of that with our home storage batteries. It'll be interesting to see if things like Intelligent Flux become more common.
Loving the videos I'd be really interested in your views on microinverters. To me, one of the big selling points seems to be "well if one breaks then you know which one, and you only lose 1 panel while its fixed" BUT the likelihood of 1 of say 10 microinverters breaking has to be at least 10x the likelihood of a string inverter breaking. Replacing a string inverter is probably a few hours work in the house, whereas replacing a microinverter in a middle panel sounds like a right faff. I bet the "warranty" only covers the product, not cost of labour to replace. I'd much rather go into a loft than onto a roof to remove panels. Lastly, surely they are more likely to fail if sat outside with big temperature fluctuations? Sounds like a spreadsheet could tell us how much extra yield you'd need, for microinverters to make financial sense for a regular rectangular array. 😇
Gary did a good video on microinverters. I'm undecided. The headline reliability seems pretty good at first sight but once you've got a bunch of them the chance of one failing becomes a lot higher. As you say, getting that fixed is a bit of a pain, although I believe the warranty does include the labour in a lot of cases. Some people get the microinverters installed in the loft to make repairs easier. I think I'd try to do it that way if I had the option.
I can see the message you added to the Sarah Go Green post, and this one. I've no idea why RUclips would have deleted your comment unless you added a link, which they don't allow for some reason.
Louis Rossman has 2 million subs and RUclips deletes his replies to people on his own channel I will try to post my original reply now it may be auto deleted due to length. BTW I don't know where you are but I am in Headington Oxford like Mix Energy out at Carterton? And Oxford PV in Kidlington. There is also the Oxford University Robotice group spinouts for self driving cars. The whole Formula E development going on Willians Engineering in Wantage various EV stuff from Bicester to Banbury a & obviously a slew of F1 teams
As deleted by RUclips Just subscribed here. So 2 years & 10K. Think Media would say your right on Track. BTW, to get you're Bronze Play Button you need to remind RUclips probably on X/Twitter RUclips Creators channel They are a great bunch & a great way of getting access when RUclips are being monolithic. They can really help! So in about a year you will be at minimum 2OK subscribers assuming you don't get a hockey Stick inflection which would give you a out 40K. Which means I'm going to ask you the question I have been asking creators for nearly 10 years. Conservatively speaking: How are you going to cope when you hit 50K 2 years from now? And 100K plus 3 years from now? I asked that of channels who were at 10K are now at 500K and heading for their Gold Play Button. If you want to talk compost go talk to the permaculture consultant channel. Asking about sense of smell is like asking about Newspapers in China and wondering about all the blank spaces in the newspapers where they have been censored.... I need higher quantities of a smell to smell things. Personally I love the subtle taste of Garlic, I usually add a whole bulb to help the taste. I have hearing & sight issues both Neurological & Physical I am assuming you know Fully Charged Show who are based in Cheltenham. And Transport Evolved has just celebrated their 100th podcast at the Vancouver Fully Charged Show. Also someone was saying about you being involved in mobile servicing of EV's in Cheltenham and he had is Skoda Enqak serviced with whomever they are. What you haven't mentioned is any of your RUclips creation stuff. What you shoot with, how do you light etc. Btw my interest in all this is that If I didn't have CFS/ME, I would have been uploading to Google Video before they bought RUclips. But I haven't because just writing this, which you may never see, if RUclips yet again censors my words, has wiped me out and I will need to sleep for a few hours just to be able to walk again!
With regards Patreon, it would definitely change your relationship with these videos, and it may not be all positive. I’d think carefully about essentially selling content to a small niche whereas right now you have total freedom. Just my two cents but unless this is your main income which it clearly isn’t, it seems like you might end up complicating your life. Best of luck either way.
Yeah, that's my concern too. It would be more about what extra I could provide over and above what I already do on the channel, it wouldn't be at the expense of the channel. At least that's what I'd hope to achieve. Still requires some more thought, for sure.
Congratulations on 100. Think I pretty much watch all of the other channels and friends that you recommend, and it was probably through watching Nigel’s videos that brought me to yours. Mind you and I both bought GivEnergy inverters and batteries and Nigel wasn’t that keen on them, so there we are. r/e Patreon/YT membership, the fees are pretty awful. One alternative on another channel I subscribe is his own member platform (on squarespace) which is basically a link to his unlisted member YT videos - BTS, members only additional content w/o adverts. Another option is to do the buy-me-a-coffee thing for spreadsheets or other resources. For me after the heat pump and solar panels it’s been Home Automation that I’ve got into, not as wide-ranging as Oli but predominately battery automation with batpred which is amazing. You might consider that as a direction to look at.
I have a Buy Me A Coffee account and have the link showing on my more recent spreadsheets (and at the end of every video), but it's a donation rather than required payment. I very rarely get anyone donating but it's nice when it happens! That's one thing I've considered changing, but I can already hear the complaints. The fees for Patreon are not as bad as RUclips memberships, which is why I'd prefer that route. But I'd have to figure out what I can do that's additional to what I already do, rather than take away some of the existing stuff, I think. Still mulling it over!
Thanks for your videos, your Toshiba A2A videos were a massive help and gave me the confidence to get the system installed in my own home, and I’ve adopted a modified version of your rule of thumb spreadsheet. Keep up the great work!
That's brilliant! I'm glad we could help.
My fav video of yours is the rule of thumb tariff one, or most of the spreadsheet ones! 😅
Chips and lasagne 😂
It's always the smallest things that viewers pick up on. Helps the algorithm though!
Wow, thanks for the shout out!
Your channel and Gary's were really the key channels for inspiring me!
The sofa chat with Kat seems to bring out your personality a bit more Tim. Nice to see.😊
Keep up the great work. Here's to the next 100!
Thank you! And no problem on the shout out, I've been watching your journey with interest. I'm glad to have helped inspire you to share your own experiences in turn. Looks like you're zooming right now too, so you're clearly doing something right!
Congratulations on your 100th video, i found you after Higel suggest that i get Air To Air and so far I'm really pleased, i must find your one on leaving the heat pump on over night , ive only had this Air to Air since June so im still playing with the settings and it's been a funny year with the weather . Funny i went to the dentist yesterday and they have Air to Air fitted since my last visit in April. I'm waiting for a call soon from my gas installer about this years service i think he will be disapointed when i tell him I've had the gas removed .
Ah, excellent. I hope it works out well for you over the Winter. I certainly can't complain, it's been very comfortable the last two winters we've had it running.
@@TimAndKatsGreenWalk I'll let you know in the spring
Really appreciate your videos - between you, Upside Down Fork, Speak to the Geek and EV Puzzle I just put down a deposit on a 20 panel array and good battery today!
Your videos are great, long may they continue!
And lasagne and chips is not weird. 😂
Very nice, 20 panels is a cracking sized array. Should do you well. And thank you for confirming that lasagna and chips is not weird! I knew we couldn't be the only ones.
Neil, Jonathan Porterfield's solar videos are good too
100 wow, thats a lot of work you have put in.
Thanks
No problem. Two years has gone by fast!
Always such a pleasure to watch your informative videos. Don't underestimate the green impact you've had through influence to your viewers, then all the connections they pass it on to. The proof is in the pudding for the transition and you show clearly how it can work and work for the better.
Thank you. I do hope you're right, it'd be nice to think we've had some impact. Our next challenge is to convince my Dad that EVs aren't to be feared!
Thank you for keeping your videos real. I unsubscribed from one of the channels you mentioned as it turned in to an infomercial channel, with 6 out of the 6 most recent vids being "i was sent this".
That is fair, we all cover different things in different ways. I decided to keep my videos about our own experiences so I'm glad that works for you.
Milestone: achieved.
It definitely snuck up on us.
Congrats on video 100. All the best for the channel in the future.
Thank you!
Congrats to BOTH of you......99 very helpful videos. Well done.
Thank you!
Congrats on the 100 videos. You have definitely contributed to my journey. I started with an EV as my ICE car prematurely died. After this opening the door, I now have solar and battery storage and now just had my ASHP installation finished and oil tank taken away! Hearing the mindset that payback isnt what its all about is helpful, makes me think im not mad and definitely permeates the subconscious! Congrats!!
Very nice. For us it was the solar that was planned first, although we ended up getting the A2A heat pump before the solar due to delays, with the EV following along after. It's amazing how well it all works in combination. Congrats on getting rid of your oil tank!
Congratulations! You've created a great [not so] little channel.
Thank you! It's certainly been more successful than expected, can't complain.
Now I HAVE to watch the pond vids! 🤔🤩
They are a valuable historical record.
Wow, well done you two! Keep it going!
Thank you!
WoW! 100 vids, that's a hell of a lot of time devoted to sharing your journey, experiences and pertinent information to help others all in a non egotistical way.
Thank you both.
All of a sudden....PONDS sound appealing 😂
Ponds are the best!
I'm just starting my solar journey and watching your videos and those made by Gary and Dan have been so helpful. I thought your visit to GivEnergy was a good one.
Thank you, and I'm glad the channel has been helpful for you. That was our whole reason for doing this in the first place!
As one of the 5th 5th who watched to the end, thank you for this video. I enjoyed it. I also watched Tim's "can't smell gas" one, which I found interesting.
Nice! I'm glad you enjoyed our ramble, and found the smell video interesting. These sofa chat videos we do are never super popular but we enjoy doing them regardless. As long as a few people watch them it's all good!
Great to see you have made the big 100.
I found your video about not being able to smell gas interesting as I think I may be in the same position as you. We have gotten rid of it too.
It definitely makes me feel safer now that we no longer have gas.
@@TimAndKatsGreenWalk and one less bill to worry about.
@@Ryanhothersall yes indeed.
Really enjoyed this video, though I am also a big fan of spreadsheets. Your detailed and in-depth investigation into various areas of green tech has been invaluable and instrumental some of our choices, so thank you!
One topic I would be more interested in knowing more about is control systems. Our setup has been built gradually over the last few years and involves kit from GivEnergy and MyEnergi, plus a non-smart heat pump. It’s kind of a nightmare constantly having to switch things on and off to stop them going rogue and stealing each other’s power, especially now that we have things like Saving Sessions and Free Electricity from Octopus. I think there’s a real need for something that brings all of these together but is designed for people who can’t handle complicated Home Assistant.
That's a good question and not something I have a good answer to. I know you can get third party service that can optimise GivEnergy batteries, for example, but I don't know of any that control multiple things together. For us, I tend to set up schedules using the various apps and then more or less leave them to it. Like having the water heating at the same time as the battery is charging overnight so that the battery isn't drained by heating the water (same with charging the car). But that's only possible right now because daytime export rates are higher than overnight import rates, so it's better to do as much as possible overnight. If tariffs change that strategy won't necessarily work!
You’re right, scheduling does solve a lot of problems but we’ve found that it only gets you so far! For example, GivEnergy have a ridiculous setting whereby you can either activate Eco mode to support house load, OR have a scheduled export. Not both. So you have to set Eco all day then have a reminder to manually turn on forced export when you get to the evening and want to earn money from whatever you’ve got left in the battery. And I would love to have the Eddi scheduled overnight to help with hot water on cold mornings, but if you switch it on then there’s no way of telling it to ignore spare solar generation in the meantime (which is more profitable to export). It all makes my poor little brain hurt!
@@pocoheywood4007 I may be able to help with your eddi problem: ruclips.net/video/tNPE2G4JPZI/видео.html
@@pocoheywood4007 for our inverter (Gen 2 hybrid) our eco mode comes back on after the timed export period ends, but I've heard that's not the case for all of them for some reason. Try updating your inverter firmware to the latest version, you might find that helps.
Awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to make those suggestions! The Eddi setting should solve that problem, but sadly the latest firmware update for my GivEnergy 3rd Gen AC coupled inverter still has the text “Eco: This setting will use your battery or solar to power your home’s electric demand, enabling this setting will disable timed export”. Ignoring the fact that it’s crying out for a semicolon to replace the abused comma, I guess that’s just something we’ll have to live with. I appreciate the suggestion though!
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Spreadsheet video fan here, I watched the EV charge vid a second time before I got my Seat Mii though. I used your code when I signed up to Octopus then. Maybe do a house tour with all the items and include the pond in that? Does it have a fountain? If so is it louder than the air con unit? I avoided the compost one because I didn't want RUclips to recommend me more compost videos 😂 Maybe offer some spreadsheet training videos for money? A linked in / patreon training course maybe?
Haha! That is fair enough, who knows what signals RUclips would pick up from that video. I'm glad you enjoy the spreadsheet videos. I had no idea there was such an appetite for them when I started. Good idea about the house tour, that is something I've wondered about doing too. No fountain in the pond, it's a wildlife pond so is very naturalistic and no fish either. And thank you for using my Octopus code, I really appreciate that!
Brilliant review of your back catalogue. Had me in stitches, chips and lasagne...who knew it was so controversial. The ROI thing was another hilarious topic. I took early retirement just over 2 years ago and the Solar Pv, battery and EV have reduced our overall running costs. Love the content and spreadsheets. More Tim and Kat videos, this was so much fun. Thanks
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed our little ramble! We have such fun recording these chat videos, I'd like to fit them in a bit more regularly from now on, if we can. Hopefully I can carve out a bit of time from Kat 's busy schedule every now and then.
Our bungalow largest space for solar panel is a north(ish) facing roof, so if you do go down that route I’d certainly be interested, I’m a fan of micro inverters but I’m not sure they would make sense on a near north facing roof, if I every got around to putting solar on it, but I’ll worry about that after I’ve put as much as I can on the South, East and West roofs. Oh and I watched you video of gas removal and your lack of smell at the time when you first released it !My fav vids were the several on the Haori Air2Air and the Mixergy iHP tank. As they are my preferred/current most likely solutions for our bungalow. Best Wishes 😊
Great to hear. There will be quite a few more iHP videos in due course and now that I've got all the kit I feel it's probably time for a full house review video sooner or later. UpsideDownFork is worth a look if you've not seen his NW array yet.
@@TimAndKatsGreenWalk forgot to say congratulations on getting to 100!
@@b5bobby thank you!
I have an in-roof system with SolarEdge optimizers and insisted that they were fitted in the loft. It took a great deal of extra work and cable but changing a faulty one is just minutes rather than most of the panels having to come off and possibly compromising the installation.
Congratulations on your 100th Tim & Kat. Please don’t put your spreadsheets behind a paywall, they are the most interesting and the best I have seen. As a pensioner I do not have the spare cash for those sort of costs. Like you I spent the capital we have to bring my costs to a known amount. To ease the pain as we get even older, I probably won’t live to see a pay-back but the system brings the bills to a manageable monthly amount. They would have been zero until the WFA was removed. I follow all the others you mentioned but enjoy yours the most.
@@stevejudyrobinson1771 if I'd had optimisers/microinverters I think I'd have done the same with installing them in the loft. It makes a lot of sense. I'm glad you enjoy the channel, that means a lot to us.
Congrats on your 100th video 🎉
Sorry for arriving late to this video, my fault I know, I wasn't subscribed until now (you're only my second channel subscription) and RUclips didn't suggest this video until today despite the fact that I've watched nearly all your other offerings; I'm now so intrigued that I'm even going to watch the pond videos as soon as I've posted this.
I appreciate that the videos must take a huge amount of time, and the spreadsheets must too. Something tells me that you really enjoy creating those spreadsheets though, and I wouldn't be surprised if you'd create some of them even without the channel. Btw, I love the sofa chat videos, a definite 👍 from me.
Here's looking forward to the next 100 videos.
Wow, I feel honoured! I tend to use my subscription feed on RUclips to find videos from folks I follow, which makes it easier. That might be worth checking out. Although I subscribe to quite a few channels so it definitely helps! You're right, I do tend to create other spreadsheets on the side but most are not for public consumption and are quite messy, quick tests, that sort of thing. Sometimes they evolve into the ones you see on the channel. I'm glad you enjoy the sofa chat videos, I will try to fit more in to the schedule as they became a bit scarce recently. We really enjoy recording those ones.
A great video, thanks I always watch your channel with interest as well as your friends channels. I am also considering a North facing array in Gloucestershire.
I reckon in another couple of years I might be ready to pursue the North facing roof more thoroughly. We shall see!
Tim/Kat, finally somebody else that is/has been doing this journey and considers the impact on retirement. I can say that journey can work as I have retired early time year, and one of the main contributing factors when doing the maths (sorry not good with spreadsheets) that is allowing that is reduced energy cost. Previously my energy DD was £279 per month, now it's £1 and that really is only to make sure I get the free Nero's coffee each week from Octopus :-). I also have a possible decision on north facing panels to extend the current system. Keep up the great work and I hope to bump into you at one of the shows
That's great to hear. Looking forward to bumping into you at some point!
Congrats on the 100th video
I'm sorry to say I haven't watched your pond videos, however can you post a picture of it now as you say it is so good.
I don't understand the EV haters, I've been battling with them and misinformation for years now on social media.
Lasagne and chips... What's wrong with that?
Tim are you looking at getting a larger EV to go along with. Kat's small EV, so you can be totally ICE free household?
Yeah, maybe I could do a community post about the pond. We are indeed planning on replacing my car with an EV too. I quite like the look of the Cupra Raval, which comes out next year. I still prefer a small car, super mini size, really. We have no need for anything much bigger tbh.
@@TimAndKatsGreenWalk I drive a Kia Soul which has a 64kWh battery Now we're old and the kids have flown the nest there really isn't any need to drive around a large car.
I also have solar and battery storage, albeit the solar is coming up to 9 years old, battery storage i put in last spring.
Next step is the air to air heat pump. I put two units in back in 2009, which were put in mainly to cool the living room and our bedroom, but I'm thinking of removing them and replacing it with a multi split over the whole house.
I'm debating which rooms at the moment. If you don't mind me asking what is the maximum demand from your system when it first fires up on a cold day and what does it settle down too to maintain the temperature?
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@@blobstrom sure, no problem. I'd say that most of the time it doesn't draw more than about 2kW initially and depending on the outside temperature that might only last half an hour or so before settling down to 1 kW or less. We tend to leave it on for most of the day (and during the off-peak period overnight, as per the video I mentioned) so generally it just ticks along at a low power.
I for one do appreciate all the videos. Not doing hot water on Electricity so missed those but everything else has been very helpful.
How do you manage on the max kW from the Gen2 inverter. Do you just accept that you will have to use topup full price electricity or do you try and make sure you are not Boiling the Kettle as you put the Microwave on?
I went for the AIO so that we can get a full 6kW but even then we do get some over topping.
The Northfaciing panels with bidirectional or even Perovskite could just work but much lower payback. But if green is more relevant then it will help.
We don't tend to worry about the power output of the Gen 2 inverter, the amount of time it's exceeded is so small that it barely registers most days. I reckon it amounts to a couple of pence per day of peak rate power, so in practice there's no point us worrying about further optimising our lifestyles around the 3.6 kW limit. That's not to say that a higher output wouldn't be welcome, of course, but we don't let the it dictate our lives.
I watched the compost video & enjoyed it. Thanks ! I will watch the pond ones too !
Ah, glad to hear it.
Given your excellent green credentials and your 100th video, did you get a card from King Charles?
Ha! No we didn't sadly, not yet at least. Now that would be something. I'm not betting on it though!
For info. over the last year my NW facing panels have achieved 60% generation compared to my SE facing panels. Another advantage of NW panels is that they generate when most needed and when the export price is highest (Flux). A potential topic for future blogs could be control of oversized systems. For example I have a 13 kWp system with an 8kW inverter but only a 4.5kW max export limit, so I have to keep tweaking my Solar Edge control options to suit the conditions in order to maximise generation (profit) by minimising the amount of time when the system is ‘clipping’.
Yes, that's a good topic to cover. We're thankfully never subject to clipping with our E/W array but it's definitely a common issue that's worth addressing. I'll see what I can do.
I’m happy if you’d like to use my system as a ‘for example’ 🤓
@@Steve-6536 it'll probably be next Summer by the time I get around to this but I'll keep it in mind!
The spreadsheet videos are great. The fact that the cost has a good correlation with how green the action is means that the green video is to an extent redundant. So I can see why I link to one and not the other. For me, saving money allows me to direct time and money on the next green thing, be it insulation, green travel or green food consumption (the various areas we have to decarbonise). As are the green planning videos-solar/heat loss etc..
I would imagine demand shifting will become increasingly important as the grid decarbonises for 2030. Us and our providers shifting our usage, charging and even generation will be a big thing.
Yes, indeed, load shifting is going to be crucial in the coming years. It's good to be able to be part of that with our home storage batteries. It'll be interesting to see if things like Intelligent Flux become more common.
That gas nose video was interesting… not obvious.
Yeah, not many people know about that. I guess it's less visible than other missing senses.
Loving the videos I'd be really interested in your views on microinverters. To me, one of the big selling points seems to be "well if one breaks then you know which one, and you only lose 1 panel while its fixed" BUT the likelihood of 1 of say 10 microinverters breaking has to be at least 10x the likelihood of a string inverter breaking. Replacing a string inverter is probably a few hours work in the house, whereas replacing a microinverter in a middle panel sounds like a right faff. I bet the "warranty" only covers the product, not cost of labour to replace. I'd much rather go into a loft than onto a roof to remove panels. Lastly, surely they are more likely to fail if sat outside with big temperature fluctuations? Sounds like a spreadsheet could tell us how much extra yield you'd need, for microinverters to make financial sense for a regular rectangular array. 😇
Gary did a good video on microinverters. I'm undecided. The headline reliability seems pretty good at first sight but once you've got a bunch of them the chance of one failing becomes a lot higher. As you say, getting that fixed is a bit of a pain, although I believe the warranty does include the labour in a lot of cases. Some people get the microinverters installed in the loft to make repairs easier. I think I'd try to do it that way if I had the option.
Here's Gary's video:
ruclips.net/video/q6t0AAi5Jws/видео.html
Patreon & Website please so I can't be censored by RUclips
You may or may not be able to see the post I just made!
Or even this
I can see the message you added to the Sarah Go Green post, and this one. I've no idea why RUclips would have deleted your comment unless you added a link, which they don't allow for some reason.
The app sometimes wont even allow me to type an answer but see if you can see my next reply.
@@annakissed3226 how strange. I have no idea why that would be the case.
Louis Rossman has 2 million subs and RUclips deletes his replies to people on his own channel
I will try to post my original reply now it may be auto deleted due to length.
BTW I don't know where you are but I am in Headington Oxford like Mix Energy out at Carterton? And Oxford PV in Kidlington. There is also the Oxford University Robotice group spinouts for self driving cars. The whole Formula E development going on Willians Engineering in Wantage various EV stuff from Bicester to Banbury a & obviously a slew of F1 teams
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Just subscribed here.
So 2 years & 10K. Think Media would say your right on Track.
BTW, to get you're Bronze Play Button you need to remind RUclips probably on X/Twitter RUclips Creators channel
They are a great bunch & a great way of getting access when RUclips are being monolithic. They can really help!
So in about a year you will be at minimum 2OK subscribers assuming you don't get a hockey Stick inflection which would give you a out 40K.
Which means I'm going to ask you the question I have been asking creators for nearly 10 years.
Conservatively speaking:
How are you going to cope when you hit 50K 2 years from now?
And 100K plus 3 years from now?
I asked that of channels who were at 10K are now at 500K and heading for their Gold Play Button.
If you want to talk compost go talk to the permaculture consultant channel.
Asking about sense of smell is like asking about Newspapers in China and wondering about all the blank spaces in the newspapers where they have been censored....
I need higher quantities of a smell to smell things. Personally I love the subtle taste of Garlic, I usually add a whole bulb to help the taste. I have hearing & sight issues both Neurological & Physical
I am assuming you know Fully Charged Show who are based in Cheltenham. And Transport Evolved has just celebrated their 100th podcast at the Vancouver Fully Charged Show.
Also someone was saying about you being involved in mobile servicing of EV's in Cheltenham and he had is Skoda Enqak serviced with whomever they are.
What you haven't mentioned is any of your RUclips creation stuff. What you shoot with, how do you light etc.
Btw my interest in all this is that If I didn't have CFS/ME, I would have been uploading to Google Video before they bought RUclips. But I haven't because just writing this, which you may never see, if RUclips yet again censors my words, has wiped me out and I will need to sleep for a few hours just to be able to walk again!
With regards Patreon, it would definitely change your relationship with these videos, and it may not be all positive. I’d think carefully about essentially selling content to a small niche whereas right now you have total freedom.
Just my two cents but unless this is your main income which it clearly isn’t, it seems like you might end up complicating your life.
Best of luck either way.
Yeah, that's my concern too. It would be more about what extra I could provide over and above what I already do on the channel, it wouldn't be at the expense of the channel. At least that's what I'd hope to achieve. Still requires some more thought, for sure.
Nice one, thanks.
I just cancelled all my Patrion and RUclips memberships as I never use any perks.
That is fair.
its a no to Patreon from me
Fair enough
Congratulations on 100. Think I pretty much watch all of the other channels and friends that you recommend, and it was probably through watching Nigel’s videos that brought me to yours. Mind you and I both bought GivEnergy inverters and batteries and Nigel wasn’t that keen on them, so there we are.
r/e Patreon/YT membership, the fees are pretty awful. One alternative on another channel I subscribe is his own member platform (on squarespace) which is basically a link to his unlisted member YT videos - BTS, members only additional content w/o adverts.
Another option is to do the buy-me-a-coffee thing for spreadsheets or other resources.
For me after the heat pump and solar panels it’s been Home Automation that I’ve got into, not as wide-ranging as Oli but predominately battery automation with batpred which is amazing. You might consider that as a direction to look at.
I have a Buy Me A Coffee account and have the link showing on my more recent spreadsheets (and at the end of every video), but it's a donation rather than required payment. I very rarely get anyone donating but it's nice when it happens! That's one thing I've considered changing, but I can already hear the complaints. The fees for Patreon are not as bad as RUclips memberships, which is why I'd prefer that route. But I'd have to figure out what I can do that's additional to what I already do, rather than take away some of the existing stuff, I think. Still mulling it over!
One of the greatest classic British dishes is a chip butty ! Make it mediterranean by pairing chips + garlic bread . . a new classic.
A taste sensation.
Tim , do you guest on Kat's cross-stitch channel ? Maybe wearing one of her creations ? ! if that is possible with cross-stitch !
I have not as yet. Her creations are typically framed and mounted on the walls rather than worn.