![]() ![]() ![]() There are two of us in the house regularly. This June 2017 we had two weeks when the gas boiler was not required at all. Payback is very fast and there’s a certain satisfaction in seeing practically 100% of power generation being usefully used within the home rather than being exported – whilst still being paid FiT as well!!įitted one of these three years ago with our new solar PV and in that time it has used 1.5MWh+ of solar electricity heating our water. air conditioning, pond pumps, tool chargers etc.Īll in all though, this is an amazing product and no solar home should be without one. with Anker eufy sockets so that various other devices could be powered up via measured spare power – e.g. What I’d really like though, is for the iBoost+ to interface e.g. I also fitted a 2kW glass panel heater adjacent to my airing cupboard so that when the water is at max temperature, the iBoost+ then diverts power to space heating, further reducing my gas bill! For a household of two, one good solar day then sustains the hot water without need for gas consumption for up to two or three days. I turned down the thermostat driving hot water heating from the gas boiler to 50 degrees and set the immersion heater thermostat to the max. It detects the slightest amount of spare power and diverts it into my immersion heater and yet reduces power or switches off the moment power is needed elsewhere – e.g. I fitted this in October 2018 and could not be more impressed. ![]()
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