Overnight and Time of Use Battery Charging I recently described how a PowerBanx home battery system saves you money: you charge it on a combination of free solar and reduced price 'Time of Use' electricity (like Octopus Go or Economy 7) then use it to run your home when you would otherwise have to
The basic operating process of a home battery.
One vs Two Inverters There are two main approaches to Inverters when installing a solar and battery system in the home, and there are pros and cons to each. This blog highlights the main advantages and disadvantages of each.
PowerBanx batteries can be mounted in computer enclosures providing a neat, adaptable and upgradable system at low cost.
Today I’ve been charging my electric car (a BMW i3) for free using the solar panels on the roof of my house.
This is about Days 6 and 7 of owning a PowerBanx home battery, and a summary of the result of a week running our house with one. On Day 1 I explained how it charges up from our solar panels during the day and then empties during the evening to
My experience on Day 1 with a PowerBanx home battery showed that it’s perfectly possible to run a house with using any grid electricity, i.e. for free. However, my experiences on Day 2 and Day 3 showed that it was quite hard to also charge an electric car for free
While using our PowerBanx home battery got us through Day 1 without paying for any electricity to run the house, attempting to also charge the car on Day 2 had meant that we had ending up using some mains electricity to get through the evening (about 60p worth).
My attempt to live without paying for electricity using a PowerBanx home battery worked well on Day 1 so I was optimistic going into Day 2. As we have seen, the day started with the battery still half full at midnight. The night-time loads were small so there was still
Early experience with a home battery.