Battery charge setting changing on its own

5 comments started 2022-08-05 last 2022-08-06
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#1 Epico

Hi,

First time here, for the last two nights my battery has fully charged overnight on my off peak tariff. The battery charge setting was on solar only but I wake up in the morning to see it's changes to solar+grid.
Reverted it back to solar only and it's done it again today. So I now have a full battery when I don't need it (and the cost associated, which yes is not going to bankrupt anyone but it's the principal) Two days in a row. Has anyone else had this issue. We are coming in to some sunny days and I don't have any need for the battery to fill itself! Had the system since December and it has never done this before

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#2 Tim

Epico Check the inverter settings. Ensure ECO mode is enabled and that all the timed charge, discharge and export options are disabled. Check that you battery options are set to what you want and keep your fingers crossed for tonight.

If it all looks OK, you can set timed charge modes later in the year when you need to do some overnight boosting. I believe some Time of Use tariffs might set inverter controls but I'm not sure. I've set my Smart Tariff card manually as it can't cope currently with both EdF EV tariff and Octopus SEG.

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#3 Epico

So this happened again, all settings changed back to normal solar only operation (confirmed on the app and seperately on the website portal) but once again the system has changed itself back to pulling from the grid...it appears there is nothing I can do to stop it as whatever you change it ignores!

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#4 stevelewis

Epico have you linked your GE account to Octopus and enabled integration, handing over control to Octopus? That could be the source of the overrides.

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#5 Epico

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I think the key thing for me is that I have had this since December and set it up. It was worked exactly as I wanted it to until Thursday. I made no changes to how I have asked the system to work but it unilaterally has made the change,
and keeps making it every day after I switch it back (and save changes on the app, and confirm the same on the web dashboard)

Phone call on Monday to givenergy incoming I believe