Broken Solar iBoost

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Written By Michael Curtis

I have been having some issues with my Solar iBoost since it was installed. As it was installed in December it was hard to tell what was going on. There wasn’t enough spare solar production to export for it to kick in. Saying that, from time to time it would start to work and also drain my battery. I played with the default cut in threshold of 100W and changed it to 500W and then 250W. Something just didn’t feel right.

I emailed Marlec and they were very helpful. They asked me to check the ferrite metal was intact. Turns out it was broken. Below is what it looked like.

I am getting a replacement clamp next week. I will update this post once it arrives and have fitted it.

Gary Does Solar posted this video regarding solar diverters and are they work it. With the Octopus Agile Export tariff I may well get a better export rate than heating the water and saving on the gas.

Broken ferrite metal ring

 

Broken ferrite metal ring

 
Michael Curtis

My introduction to computers started at my middle school in 1981 when our maths teacher brought in a ZX80. That led the computer club being founded and using a Research Machine 380Z

My first computer was a 48K ZX Spectrum which I loved to programme. Once I left school I worked as a photocopier engineer, then a fax engineer and finally moving on the Apple computers.

For the next 30 years I worked as a system administrator. I now work in the cyber security industry as a Sophos Professional Services consultant

https://www.bazmac.me
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