Reduction in system overhead

3 comments started 2025-09-24 last 2025-09-24
GivEnergy Products
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#1 Nil Desperandum

I've mentioned before that I seem to have a massive overhead of 6-7kwh per day - I do have a big 20kw 3phase system but that still seems way over the top to me.

On 15/9/25 I had a partial power cut (one or two of my 3 phases went down) - my system got into a very confused state so I had to manually reboot everything and all then seemed fine...
Very strangely, since then I've noticed my overhead is down at 3-4kwh per day!
So I'm wondering:

  1. did the power cut/reboot fix something?
  2. purely coincidentally to the power cut has there been some update to improved the efficiency and/or measurement?

Thanks in advance

Ian

[aside I would have expected the inverter to island the house if any phase goes down but it didn't - my installer has asked GE about this but not got a reply!]

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#2 SunnysideAl

I noticed that my AIO appears to show a 50% reduction in overhead if I reboot it after it's been powered up.

I don't know if that's real or just something in the reporting because after I first noticed it the first thing I do after starting it up is a reboot for that very reason.

If I trust the stats my overhead is about 60W under very light load but shows as double that after first being powered up.

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#3 Nil Desperandum

Interesting, thanks ... can't immediately think what could cause that... but let's see if any others have ideas ... perhaps even GE...