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My personal view back in the day I was JIB trained I then went on my own 40 years ago and you had to be NICEIC Approved to do council work so I stayed with them then Part P came in ( joke ) I then could not see the point of staying approved as Domestic was all you needed and to this day it's served me well in all types of work I then joined MCS in 2010 which we stayed for 4 years whilst Fit payment installed solar was about.I now believe MCS is pointless as its just a money maker for Niceic Napit so you get inspected twice by them and its only Octopus that has caused issue for solar clients insisting on MCS certificate but they now will except installations if you provide all the details as if in MCS.We prob will go back Approved Niceic as I believe ( as it should be ) Approved will be the only ones that can work on industrial contracts in the future ref walking dogs you need to chill on dog walks 🤣

D'oh, I'd pretty much made up my mind to go with GivEnergy (but not the all-in-one due to present scalability & cost) but SigEnergy looks very interesting. DC charging module as well. Key point being is cost? Is it comparable with GivEnergy, which I can easily price check with other products. I've not found pricing on SigEnergy SigenStor. Good vid.

Great video 👍

That demo board looks fantastic Mark. A great visual for the learners. Kudos mate.

I’d like to see more accountability in the industry & stop people that aren’t registered with NICEIC Napit stroma ect from getting access to work without insurance and doing moon lighting . I’ve noticed several DNO and SSE electricians( they might be skilled in most cases but this is about signing off the work and taking responsibility !)working in rewires when they don’t test and sign off work! This is infuriating for people like myself who do things by the book Register with NICEIC do the paperwork & get the insurance.😬

Anybody would just nill the tester with a lead in circuit and job is a good one!

Love NAPIT, not a fan of NICEIC because of in our area the current AC assessor is a moody, bad tempered bar-steward led by illusions of grandeur. He has to be reminded every now and then his job is to help members not to be an annual bollard, chain and anchor in everyone's professional life. JIB was fine, then started removing gold cards from older (pre-AMD2) members, moved entry goal posts to make NET some money. Not once in my life was I asked to show JIB card, so dropped them there and then. MCS is a terrible, terrible scheme, focussed only on lofty method statements and bureaucratic procedures rather than quality of work in the field. It needs to be shaken up or removed as it only slows down entire green industry and seems to be doing little else than guarding entire sector in the name of a chosen few giants. HEISS is just unbelievably rogue wench of bankers - I remember when they insisted we hand over chunky deposit (non returnable by their own T&Cs) and sign a warrant not to do more than five jobs a month in order to get provisional membership required for MCS. And who are they to dictate financial future of companies? Unbelievable. The sooner MCS drops third party consumer code requirements the better.

Hi Mark, great video. Can I ask what version of the GE app you are using in the video. Mine is 3.3.7 and I can't find that "stop the ev discharging the battery" setting. Many thanks.

Hi Mark I've just invested in a mft pro have you got a video on how to operate it please

I had three 3kwh Pylontech batteries installed in my loft, along with solar and Solis 3kw hybrid inverter. Each battery has internal battery management and along with the Solis, should stop the batteries being used past their operating parameters and thus shouldnt cause a fire. I understand that if the house catches fire the batteries could drop into the flames. But at the time I was more concerned that the inverter and electronics were mounted to a wooden board. I had my system installed by Solar Together, so local government approved supplier. Who subcontracts everything out and invariably some cowboys got in. The house is about 100 years old and the loft has good airflow. I have a large detached garage used mainly for storage

Hi Mark, thanks for video, very informative. Do you have a video reviewing this after using it since the installation? I am interested to know if it’s working ok on diverting your excess energy from your PV?

Hi Mark could you tell me the typical cost of the installation of a 5kw battery to a new build 5 solar panel system? Im in Glasgow.

Hi, I have issues with the consumption, import and export numbers reported by the Givenergy portal. I am thinking this is related to CT clamp connections to the connectors in the gateway unit - in my install - load CT appears to be connected (from grid in) but not PV CT or AC CT so suspect this is causing my issue. Any thoughts from your experience on these installs?

People seem to hate NIC assessments, but I find my assessor has always been sound as a pound. He's been through the same thing, knows the crack and isn't there to catch you out, but if he does find something he'll go out of his way to help and give advice. IET membership is also handy when you get 25% off their publications and even in this last year the money I've saved on the books has paid for the membership itself. I think they're a bit of a punchbag sometimes (and they do know it) but at the end of the day it's still a bunch of fellas just doing their jobs, and with reason.

Most courses are very useful but feel there could be more MCs content on solar PV courses. Like to see napit build some software so we don't need to buy paperclip.

Gas is the same

MCS, HIES, and NAPIT all offer a false sense of security to Consumers. In reality when things go wrong, for example if a company should cease trading, they are not interested and send you on a merry -go round from one to another. Eventually you'll be asked if you paid by credit card and suggest you contact them. Seriously, they are not fit for purpose. The best advice to consumers should be PAY BY CREDIT CARD!

After paying for our NICEIC and BAFE "fees" 3 months ago and just getting assessed this month, honestly feel as these scams need a major overhaul, get nothing but sweaty palms once a year

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Good information presented 👍

All money grabbers

Superb Vid Mark, you're telling like it is/ needs to be told. All these poxy outfits at this time, tells me that with renewables, there will be bigger fish eating up the smaller fish, no doubt. Octopus has put a nail in MCS's business model with accepting systems for export etc, without the "gentlemen's club" being involved. It's all changing fast, everyone needs to keep an eye on this whole thing. 💥

Very good informative video

Enjoyed the video Mark

Good stuff Mark

Superb video,tips that actually work in practice. I tried the last tip for a bubble set using a sliding bevel instead of a angle gauge, it took the guest work out, leaving a nice neat job in white pvc conduit. Many thanks looking forward to the next video.

I'll be giving that a miss. The connector hook and cable looks an absolute mess.

Get the bird mesh around or you will have birds nesting inside, unless you want that of course.

Hi mate, watching your videos, made my life easier starting on solar installers journey...great content...

Great Video thank you, a system i've got my eye on.

First of your videos I’ve watched so maybe I’ve missed something, is your system grid tied, and if so don’t you need mcs accreditation to connect (apart from exporting on octopus trial)? Did you have to go g98 as you’ve already got an inverter in your house presumably so you’re over 3.6kW?

Do you need to use the EV Ultra cable or will 6mm armour do?

Great video and explanation. Don't you use a MEN link between Earth and Neutral?

The bottom of the board doesn’t align with the top of that light switch. That would do my head in😮

Interesting you went for east/west rather than all south, does the yield turn out bigger with fitting the panels in this orientation?

Should mention that the GivEnergy gateway can only take 40amps, so if you have too many panels, it won't read them.

Struggling to find the roof fixings you used to mount the solar. Got a name/brand for them? Thanks

Nice kit. Good video Mark

far too much waffling

A nice looking bit of kit, Mark. One or two things I noted during the install - design issues, not installer issues 🙂 - the AC power connector to the inverter doesn't give much room for the bend in the AC cable. Maybe the manufacturer should have a right-angled terminal connector as an option to make the electrician's life a wee bit easier! Secondly, the finished outdoor unit is very smart but I think I would be fitting some kind of mesh to close-off the gap at the back of the unit to prevent rodent damage to cables or wasp nests. The changeover contactor has to be break-before-make, of course, and so there is no guarantee that any equipment like routers or desktop PCs will not 'see' the grid drop out. I would always advise the use of UPS for these devices. The minimum delay before back-sync and automatic reconnection to the grid from island mode required by G99 is 20s (clause 10.3.4). I would say it should be a minimum of 60s if the installation is supplied from an overhead MV distribution network to allow any auto-reclosing equipment on the overhead feeder to have finished its sequence. Finally, I'm a bit wary of the use of a C125 incoming MCCB(?). Installations in rural areas supplied from pole-mounted transformers can have surprisingly low prospective fault currents, so a busbar fault in the gateway might not be cleared! Thanks for another very detailed and informative video.

Hi Mark great use of fullface mask, the filter all I could see was Brown ring on the housing this is for organic vapours only. It won’t stop particles you will need a filter that has a white band, and I would always recommend P3. Keep up the great training

Brings back memories of bending iron and copper pipes throughout a whole building. If only the pipe material was made like that really thin wiring stuff with the melty plastic covering that goes around all sorts of corners 👍

If your customer now has a heat pump that heats the hot water there's no point in solar diversion into an immersion heater because the heat pump is three or four times more efficient - so the export tariff makes more sense for any surplus. Also because they have an EV I presume they are using a cheap rate overnight tariff - they could also time the heat pump to heat the hot water at the same time for even more savings.

Very neat install and very well explained. I was just onto Givenergy technical support and could not get a proper answer about the gateway and all-in-one. One person told me the all-in-one was a hybrid inverter plus battery in one box. Another person told me the gateway was an inverter but then changed the story to suggest that the PV DC connects through it to connect to the all-in-one so there was only one inverter in the all-in-one acting as a hybrid. All total rubbish as I suspected from the datasheets. (Poor one sheet items lacking in detail - as are the insulation manuals). What I wanted to know was what happened if you set the battery to self discharge to maximise export tariff - does the 6kW output first come from PV with battery help if needed or does it just discharge the battery by 6kW and the PV get wasted because there was only one inverter? It's obvious from your walk through that there are two inverters - an AC coupled battery and a PV DC-AC inverter, so you could get 6kW battery + PV kW export potentially, but I'm still unclear about if the software limits export to 6kW for DNO approval and takes PV first with battery addition if the sun goes down, or if battery "force discharge" ignores PV and lets PV go to waste. Can you clarify? Obviously, in addition, the inverter can have its own DC coupled battery as a hybrid - possibly the reason for the confusion. Also, did you fit an earth rod for island mode?

Great screwdriver for the price. Great review. 👍

Great video, I want this system but I am in SW France! Any ideas?

Does anyone have an Android application for this camera because unfortunately the Play Store tells me that it is not available in my country (even if someone has it installed on their phone & tablet, I can send the application to make a copy of it) I wrote e-mails to the manufacturer but no one responds, so no This app's trash can equipment is just perfect

Ma ktoś może aplikację do tej kamerki na androida bo niestety w sklepie Play pisze mi że nie dostępna w moim kraju (nawet jak ktoś ma wgraną w telefon &tablet mogę podesłać aplikacje do zrobienia jej kopi ) pisałem maile do producenta ale nikt nic nie odpowiada więc bez tej apki sprzęt do kosza tylko się naddaje

Hi Mark I'm doing the same! 18 way board in the house going to two 8 way boards in outhouses. I need to add ArcFlash protection - any idea how you do that with these boards? Great content :)

Yes we use the SiGe here in Ireland, it is the best one out there on data specs but also it is 1K more expensive than the Sofar powerall which has less depth, great for utility rooms. nothing lasts outside where we are!