Do you have Solar Panels & Charge Anytime? We’d love to hear your thoughts

Hi,

I have Hypervolt Home 3 Pro  and Charge Anytime. I am considering installing solar. Can you advise if I can still use Charge Anytime while getting power from the grid and still use solar for powering the rest of my house. I would like to take part in this research if it helps answer my question. Thanks!!

Hi ​@sujohnm ,

Sounds like you DO have a compatible setup for that purpose - the Hypervolt is a supported Charger when using Charge Anytime with Solar.

Hi,

That’s good news, but how would I instruct my home charger to take power off the grid rather than my solar? Thanks!!

You don’t - a Hypervolt Charger will attempt to use Solar by default whenever it’s available and has sufficient capacity spare. In your setup, it’d be in your best interests to allow that to happen while letting Charge Anytime soak up the rest of your EV Charging. The grid will only be used if your solar isn’t generating enough eco-juice to power everything that’s currently running.

And besides, that’s also not how electricity works anyway - you can’t be importing and exporting on the same phase at the exact same time.

Hi, That’s great, last question - what if I have lots of power stored in the house battery and not enough solar power being generated like at night, will the Hypervolt attempt to take power off my house battery or will it take power off the grid. Thanks for the responses, really helps understand how this works!!

It will attempt to use the Battery first in that situation, unless you’ve configured it not to do so.

Ah, thanks. Good to know there’s an option for this as well. Many thanks!!

No worries, just in case it helps, do you mind if I give you a little bonus item too?

https://support.hypervolt.co.uk/knowledge-base/charging-modes may just be what you’re looking for. If you’re using Charge Anytime you might not be able to set these and you’ll probably want to keep it on Boost mode, but I’ll leave this here for you anyway.

Subject to a minimum of 1.4kW being available which, as far as I know, is common to all vehicles. If you have a cloud pass over the charging will cut out and presumably restart when it clears. On some days this will result in the car starting and stopping charging frequently. I'm not sure if anyone knows this is detrimental to the life of the battery but probably not. Some people charge the battery from solar and then charge the car from the battery.

Peter

Well, on the default charge mode Boost, charging will continue from any available source even if the sun isn’t shining. But you can change that behaviour if you want though so it shuts down if insufficient solar is available.