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The homeowner can decide how to prioritise self consumption depending on the cut-in threshold of the particular battery system installed.īattery Charging Prioritised – where the battery cut-in is 100W, maintain a gap of 50W between the settings if possible. This smooths out any rapid changes in energy consumption and generation so that only on-site generation is consumed.įrom April 2019 the Solar iBoost+ was released with a programmable function to raise the cut-in threshold, primarily this was introduced to accommodate some battery charging systems with thresholds around and above 100W. The Solar iBoost+ has a 100W export threshold before it starts to divert energy to the immersion. In winter you may not need the timed top up if your gas/oil heating is operating so your winter settings will be zero.

You should note that grid power is used during the timed operations. This feature is also selectable from the remote iBoost Buddy where used.Īn example of when you might use this is: In the summer when your space heating is off you may want to switch off gas or oil water heating too if your Solar iBoost is delivering most of the hot water you need.

You can switch between Winter, Summer and Timed OFF by scrolling to the end of the Display button until “In Winter (or Summer) Boost” displays and simply pressing A button to change the setting. Winter/Summer settings means that you only need to program the times in each season zone once.

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This is useful if you want to use grid power to top up the free hot water but the duration and start time might be different according to the time of year and how you are using any other heating system. Yes, a useful feature in Solar iBoost+ is the option to switch rapidly between Winter/Summer/OFF Timed settings. For battery systems with a higher cut-in the Sender 250 is available on line to retro-fit in place of the existing Sender, this cuts-in the Solar iBoost+ at 250W. Note: Solar iBoost+ and Solar iBoost (original) models prior to April 2019 are also compatible alongside battery systems with thresholds under 100W without any changes normally. The homeowner can decide how to prioritise self consumption depending on the cut-in threshold of the particular battery system installed.īattery Charging Prioritised – where the battery cut-in is 100W, maintain a gap of 50W between the battery cut-in and Solar iBoost+ settings if possible. This smooths out any rapid changes in energy consumption and generation so that only on-site generation is consumed.įrom April 2019 the Solar iBoost+ was released with a programmable function to raise the cut-in threshold primarily to accommodate some battery charging systems with thresholds around and above 100W.

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