Description

At my home we have solar PV hooked up to Victron inverter/chargers and a Redflow ZCell battery for energy storage. I've written a lot about this previously:

• Go With The Flow
• Hack Week 21: Keeping the Battery Full
• TANSTAAFL
• Still Going With The Flow

The two most recent posts in the series were reviews of the operation of the system over its first and second year. I'm now due to write up the third year of operation, which aside from whatever interesting figures I'm able to look at in terms of power generation and utilisation, also includes a battery failure and replacement, and the recent and disappointing demise of Redflow, the company that made my battery.

Goals

Go through a year's worth of notes I've kept regarding system operation, power outages, etc. plus power generation and utilisation figures, and turn all that into a nice long story that others will hopefully find interesting.