u/Reallytalldude

I have a system with 6.6kw for panels, and a 15.6kwh battery. I've had this close to a year now, and had it on AI mode pretty much from the start.

I'm on the OVO EV plan, which basically means free electricity between 11am and 2pm; 8ct between midnight and 6am, and pretty expensive any other time. And a pretty low feed in tariff of 2.7ct.

So ideally I'd like to charge my battery while it is free from 11am to 2pm, and then use that when the electricity is expensive in the peak hours.

The AI took care of that quite nicely for a while, but recently I noticed it is not doing that anymore - without me changing any config.

Up till yesterday I had it set to AI - Profit optimisation, and saw that the battery was near empty by 3pm - so had to use grid power at expensive rates, and I saw that it hadn't charged at all during the free hours.

I changed it to AI - self consumption, and I see the same behaviour today.

Has something changed in the AI recently? or should I just give up on AI and set this schedule manually myself? if so, what's the best way to do that in the app? which mode do I pick?

(and yes, all rates are correctly configured with their exact TOU - I checked).

I have the V480n which works well overall. The issue I have though is that the zoom function stopped working. I get the message "Diffusion panel extended, zoom adjustment disabled."

• I've tried pushing it back in multiple times, it does click every time so does seem properly seated.
• Nothing of it is extended, neither the panel nor the bounce card.
• I've upgraded to the latest firmware (V1.04 for Nikon)
• When I turn on the flash it does make the 'zooming sound', but goes straight back to 14mm and won't move from there
• I've tried blowing air around the area in case a bit of dust is blocking the sensor

Any other ideas or suggestions, or should I bring this in for warranty?

I currently have a DIY NAS based on Proxmox/Truenas. It works fine and is stable, but I'm needing to expand and that's more hassle than it's worth on this system, so I'm looking to rebuild the whole thing based on Unraid.

I currently have 2 x 6TB, 1 x 1TB and 1 x 2TB in that system. I'm planning to buy 2 x 8TB and have this whole set as my Unraid NAS, using one of the 8TB as parity drive. (I also have a 500gb SSD that I'll use as cache drive).

Thinking ahead, what would happen if I wanted to change out the 1Tb and the 2TB at a later stage with new, larger drives?

Do I just swap the drive, and it gets rebuild through the parity drive, after which I have the same data back + additional capacity? Or is it more complicated than that?

And what happens if that new drive is bigger than 8TB, i.e. say that in a year or two I want to swap the smaller drives with 12TB drives - which makes them bigger than the parity. How would I swap the parity from the original 8TB to the new 12TB - is that possible? Or do I lock myself in to only being able to have 8TB or smaller in future?

This is all future thinking of course, but I currently find myself with a Truenas system that I find hard to maintain/expand, and if I rebuild I want to do it in such a way that I don't have the same issue again a couple of years from now..