Great clarity of explanation in this video. Well done as I am tired of the BABBLE in so many other presentation videos. I found it so helpful and I await the installation of my Solar Panels and system in the coming weeks.😇

Thank you for the video, this is by far the best video explaining how the Eddi works, I’ve had my Eddi for 6 months now and I’ve saved myself £148 that I would have spent heating the water. I like the new update they have installed because it automatically shares the solar power between the battery and Eddi in the morning for the 1st few hours then it charges the Battery then goes back to heating the water. Great video

Thank you so much for doing this information video👍. I got my solor system with Eddie put in a week ago and like you said they did not really explain it at all, after watching your video I understand it much better. Thanks again 😊👍

Superb explanation of the Eddi, clearly common sense self generation system, how it should be.

I thought about this option but eventually settled with replacing the whole thing with a more power efficient Heat-pump solution which uses 1/3 the power of my previous hot water system. The cost difference was $500 more when going Heat pump. My old system was 7 years old so it was about the end of its life anyway.

Just want to mention : I export power to my immersion heater when my Sunsynk Solar system reaches 100% battery SOC. This hapens daily from 12h00 till 16h00 on sunny days. The AUX port on the Sunsynk Inverter has a relay that kicks in and surplus energy from the solar panels are used to charge the batteries while power is sent to the immersion heater. The export kick in percentage can easily be adjusted to send power to the immersion heater.

❤ my Eddi best thing about my PV Array 💕

A customer wants to use the eddie to power his emersion & an outside socket is this a good idea?

Can eddi be programmable for Aircon, also Ev battery.

Interesting but the economics is often less straightforward than people think. I used to have the predecessor of the Eddi when it cost £300 and I saw it as a less expensive option to a £3,000 Solar-Thermal add on when I had my Solar PV install 10 years at my previous house. If you are on a FIT tariff then it is as started at around 2:38 "free hot water unless you count the capital cost" and there's the rub since supply and fit is according to a Google search going to cost around £750 (less if part of a larger project) and that's a lot of hot water before break even even on FIT where it doesn't mater if you export or not. However, for the past several years since FIT was dropped using locally generated roof top solar electricity is no longer free to use simply because if you didn't use it you'd be paid for its export. On Octopus depending on your tariff you could be paid as little as 4.5p/kWh as I am or 15p/kWh as my neighbour is any time of day. You could get more with time of day export tariffs. But take my tariff Octopus intelligent where I have 7.5p/kWh import for 6 hours at night which is when my car charges and hot water heats up then when the sun shines the following day my surplus solar after charging my home battery is exported at 4.5p/kWh. So to use Eddi every kWh I'd divert I would have been paid 4.5p. Now doing this it would save me 7.5p/kWh so the saving is 3p/kWh. I use on average 5 kWh per day for hot water so I would save only 15p/day or 365 x £0.15 = £54.75 per year. So how may years before I breakeven £750/£54.75 = 13 years 255 days assuming you have enough surplus solar PV to heat a whole tank 365 days a year - which you won't. Remember that the Eddi has only a 3 year warranty so it needs to work flawlessly for 4 times the warranty period.

Isnt it better to use the Aux/Smartload/Gen port on Deye or Sunsynk?

Hi, could the Eddi diverter charge an Anker power station. If so how ? Thanks

I now value my exported electricity,, Last month Octopus paid me over a hundred pounds ,so now I,m happy to send back to the grid,,and my credit with the energy company is tobe used as a energy store for winter..Thats until the priced falls... Everything has some Value in an economical sense and not sending back to the grid has a cost...

Had my system a few months now (installed back end of 2022). Consists of EV, storage batteries, solar, Eddi and Zappi. I love the App. When I tap tank one, I get Boost settings and an opportunity to select Manual, Scheduled or Stop All but no temperature reading of the water in the tank. Was this a feature that you installed or possibly something that my installer didn't? Presumably you have a thermocouple fitted on the tank somewhere that also connects to the Eddi. Great video by the way!!

Any reason why you didnt try adding it into the smart grid function of the ASHP with maybe a smart thermostat? This will allow the ASHP to produce hot water for you which should be more efficient than an immersion?

I'd like to connect a few PV wall panels directly to my immersion heater. To get a bit of warm water for free in the summer when I do not use my gas boiler. Not interested in the Eddi - unwanted cost & complexity. Am I being too simplistic ???

amazing video thanks so much, quick question, can if i replace my hot water cylinder immersion heating element with a 12v/24v and connect directly to couple of PV will take be enough to slowly heat 250ltr of water, im not expecting to heat to 50c but at least to 30c to 40c?

This all depends.... On the size of your PV array. Whether you have a battery or not. On your import and export rates. On how you would normally heat your hot water (gas/oil/electricity) and what you pay for it. In the UK, you pay around 34p/kWh for standard rate electricity usage, you can get 15p/unit for exports and gas, I think is around 10.4p/kWh. Then there are off-peak electricity rates. There is no simple one-fits-all answer. If you have gas heating and you're on Octopus outgoing at 15p/kWh, purely financially, stick to gas. If you're losing 15p/kWh in lost exports to save 10p/kWh in gas, you're losing money. Obviously if you're trying to save the planet, that's a completely different issue.

I’m buying a new build spring 2024 looking to have solar and battery installed how do I get an immersion heater installed? Then don’t have to use the boiler for hot water? Thankyou

What is the difference with monitoring my surplus and turning on the boiler heating electronically myself? Would really like to know!

Hi. At 5:52 on the video timeline there is a temperature on your app. Is this the temperature coming from the immersion heater which heat the water? My eddi seems to be installed correctly but I can't read the water temperature. Could it be the thermostat that it's broken? I have an Albion indirect cylinder 120l also plugged with a Hive for the water temperature top up from the combi boiler. The issue i have is that the eddi continuously heats the water and create a lot of pressure in the cylinder and once the pressure is over the limit the hot water is pushed to my cold water tank. In the end i have only hot water, no cold water. How could I solve the problem? Thanks.

How does it work if your not sending anything to the grid?

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Why’s cheaper. Using a modern gas boiler on a gas price of .7p kwhr or the potential of exporting surplus PV @.15p with the octopus 🐙 SEG payments. My system 4kw PV 12kW battery’s House is band B super efficient with no recommended measures. The cost of an induction hob is double that of current gas hob plus the purchasing cost of induction hob ASHP quote we’re saving of £170.00 a year