Octopus and Sunsynk
- Keith Gough
- Sep 23, 2023
- 1 min read
Note, all Sunsynk inverters can charge and discharge at the full capacity if it is a 3.6 kW inverter. Can both discharge and charge that rating.
Sunsynk produce inverters from 2 kW to multi megawatt systems.
I think your developers should get together with octopus developers.
If octopus were to provide an API that can be called with the [Octopus] customer key and returns the import and export prices for the customer irrespective of customer tariffs
The Sunsynk connect app could make the call then use the present agile code to determine buying and selling times.
Why is this different?
Essentially, it will work with agile, flux, cosy, any other new tariff with no further code changes needed. Indeed if the data request was made frequently - octopus could dynamically set the selling price and get power immediate upload ir download.
The application oarameter set up would be
Energy company name
Customer key
Make the format…
I'm an end user. My installation appears to be working correctly but the export data provided by the Inverter and Sunsynk app does not tally with the figures quoted by Octopus. Fortunately, Octopus reckon I am exporting much more than shown by the app. As a result I have no confidence in the app data, other than the battery SOC which seems to make sense.
Have tried this today. Started charging the battery at 2 and didn't stop importing at 5 🤔. Got to 4pm and wasn't exporting. Can confirm this doesn't work.
Is there a video or simple instructions on the setup, timings and discharge etc…Manual appears very cumbersome to navigate through
Mav
Set mine to the flux setting a couple of weeks ago. My battery now seems to charge between 2am and 5am, and we are exporting ftom 4pm till 7pm. Does that mean it is working? I'm still learning about all this so any advice on setup would be welcome. We are low users and have 20 panels with sunsynk inverter and battery.