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Not necessarily Sigenergy-specific but has anyone else bought (or considered) buying a cheap EV to soak up excess solar rather than a new battery stack?

My current 16kWh stack is on the wall bracket so I can’t add more without doing a new inverter etc. I just don’t think it’ll be worth the extra $$.

But we’ll have a lot of excess solar in summer that will only get a 1c FIT (AGL EV plan in SA).

Rather than going to the grid, I was considering getting a cheap EV.

Even without V2X it would be nice to know I’m keeping more of the solar I’m capturing.

edit I should validate this and say we’d be looking to replace one of our cars in the next couple of years. With demand and petrol prices, I’ve been thinking of bringing this replacement forward.

Feels like we’ve had several months of buggy updates. I had to reinstall the mobile app after it wasn’t working for a week or so, but now it seems the Apple Watch app is crashing (again?).

I’m on watchOS 10.6.2

I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling the watch app and mobile app

When I open the watch app, it tries to load but then crashes.

Anyone else getting the same experience?

Hi all, we’re just trying to work out if we’ve set things up correctly for our system.

Current set up
- Solar panels: 5.94kW
- Inverter: SigenStor EC 5.0 SP
- Batteries: 2x SigenStor BAT 8.0 (total 16 kWh)
- Gateway: Sigen Energy Gateway
- EV Charger: Sigen EVAC 7 4G T2 WH

Gateway
Backup
- Power and Lights

Smart Load
- Hot Water (moved off the Controlled Load circuit)

Energy Plan
- I was thinking about going to Glo-bird Four4Free or Zero Hero (although on 16 kWh I don’t think we’d export much)
- Set the hot water to heat up during free hours

EV Charging
- Will need to find a good option for this. Charging would need to be overnight

Any tips on what we can do to improve with the existing hardware?