I want to charge my battery at night when it is cheap and only have it discharge during peak hours.
These are the settings I want in place:
Everytime I toggle Timed Discharge on, it also enables ECO mode.
Everytime I turn ECO mode off, it also disables Timed Discharge and enables Timed Export
Why is this?
Please search forum 1st and you will find all the answers
In dashboard.
Eco ENABLED.
Timed charge ENABLED with the times you want. Check % levels and charge rates.
Timed discharge OFF
Timed export OFF
You could look at Octopus R&D scheduler but struggles if you want export
My Gen1 Hy5.0 the charge settings above worked fine.
Come summer when you might want a timed export it will not work as Timed Charge and Timed Export do NOT reset Eco after.
You will want Home Assistant or similar.
What do you mean by "peak" hours? What tariff are you on?. What Steve has described work fine for charging over night, but as soon as your charge period is finished, if there is no sun you will begin to pull from the battery. So if you are on Economy 7 and set your full charge period of 7.5 hours the grid will fill your battery, and then your base load will be covered by the grid until the end of your charge period, say 7.00am, and then you will pull from the battery until the sun gets going. So if that is what you mean by peak usage, then the above will work. If you are on Flux for example, and want to charge from 2-5 am do the above settings. But if you want to save your battery to discharge at Flux peak times (4-7pm) then you will have a lot of manual fiddling to do unless you want to go down the Home Assistant or automation route. You will basically have to set your battery discharge rate to 0%. This will stop any discharge during the day, and will mean you import from the grid at the Flux day time rate. Then at 4.00pm you will need to set your battery discharge rate back to 100%, and engage discharge or export and switch ECO off for the duration of the discharge, and then remember to engage it again afterwards (I think there is some variability between generations of inverters - I'm not sure but I think Gen 3 hybrids may reset ECO automatically, but don't hold me to that).A lot of faf,!!!!
Karen
Agreed
Go to Home Assistant. Your server on your network. No worries about other servers (I see a GivEnergy one is down today) or internet issues!
Program what you want inc battery levels, solar predictions etc