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Originally Posted by Top_oz
Re kettles and irons. Yes their power rating is high but because utilisation is low, energy consumption is also low. In the average home, hot water and heating/cooling are the big users.
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I concede the point. The hot water issue had escaped me as I also have solar hot water and during 75% of the year it's off the mains anyway.
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Originally Posted by lazjen
Warren: you may need to get your inverter checked, but at 10% loss in the system, I probably wouldn't stress over it for a while.
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You made some good points, and thank you. I'm not stressing over it yet, just monitoring it, but getting it checked isn't a bad thought.
I was interested to note your comments re batteries too. When our system was installed, they weren't economical to install. And yes, our system shuts off automatically in the case of a power failure to prevent anyone working on the lines nearby getting zapped by what we're feeding back into the grid.