New system in Surrey

[adm]

Well, I thought I should put a post here as I just had my system commissioned yesterday. Installed over 2 days - the day before Good Friday where the weather was truly vile, and yesterday.

I was originally looking at a 5kW system installed on my garage roof, but I ended up with 8.1kW on the garage roof and part of the main house roof.

The spec is:

19 * 430W Eurener bi-facial panels, each with Tygo optimisers. Split into three strings feeding a Fox ESS KH7 inverter and a Fox ECS2900 H7 stack of batteries for 20kW capacity. Plus an automated transfer switch to protect us from power cuts which do happen here.

Of course, with a new installation, it's going to be cloudy for the foreseeable future, but everything appears to be working well so far. I have the Fox app on my phone along with Energy Stats, I've got everything configured how I want it so far, have the Octopus API linked up (I am using Agile tariff) and am now waiting for the latest firmware updates to get downloaded so I can try and get automation with Agile working.

I will probably go to a Home Assistant setup at some, but for now, the apps and web portal are doing fine.

Pictures are a bit crap as they are during installation, but then again you've all seen panels and inverters before....

[Dave Foster]

Welcome on board - that’s a very good sized system - the KHx is one of the best inverters Fox make

[adm]

Welcome on board - that’s a very good sized system - the KHx is one of the best inverters Fox make

Thank you Dave,

Are you by any chance related to a Stephen Foster?

Strangely, I got a friend recommendation this morning on Facebook for a Dave Foster....who I presume is you as I think you have also been helping me out on the FoxESS Facebook group. It said "1 friend in common", and had a picture of Stephen who I know well from my Harley Davidson motorcycle club....

[Dave Foster]

If it's the Foxess facebook group, yes very likely to be me

The strange thing is I do have a brother called Stephen Foster, but he is definitely not a Harley rider, in fact I think the only bike he ever rode was my moped nearly 50 years ago .

I however do have quite a few motorbikes, one of which is a Harley

[adm]

If it's the Foxess facebook group, yes very likely to be me

The strange thing is I do have a brother called Stephen Foster, but he is definitely not a Harley rider, in fact I think the only bike he ever rode was my moped nearly 50 years ago .

I however do have quite a few motorbikes, one of which is a Harley

Well, small world....

Maybe Facebook's friends algorithm isn't quite as smart as it thinks it is and picked up the wrong Stephen Foster.

I have three Harleys myself. A Low Rider ST, a Pan America and a 1980 Shovelhead Wide Glide. I do a lot of riding with the HOG group out of Guildford Harley. In fact, I am on of the Road Captains there....

[Dave Foster]

You’ve got quite the selection there, one for most occasions.

I’ve had bikes for many years but mostly over the years it’s been sports bikes, tourers or adventure bikes until I did a few USA road trips with a friend, and you just have to do those on a Harley (although I had an Indian once which also had a lot of charm), so it was really just a natural progression for me to get a FatBob 114 which is great.

I do still have an adventure bike for touring, a couple of old 2 strokes from the 70’s and a couple of other ‘projects’ on the go.

[adm]

so it was really just a natural progression for me to get a FatBob 114 which is great.

I had one of those as well. I loved it and put 27k miles on it all around Europe. Good choice!

[Peeshow]

Hi, looking good!
Could you give us some more details on your transfer switch? Some pictures, a schematic maybe?