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

You should try talking to Hypervolt first - don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

​@scoob198  Appreciate this was a month ago so not sure if you got this sorted? But as stated earlier the Hypervolt will need both CT clamps installing to correctly detect full domestic load and solar generation.

I had problems initially also and in my case it was 2 problems. 1st problem was the 2nd CT clamp was not installed by the fitter (to detect the solar generation from the inverter) and 2nd problem was they had set the ALM dial wrong.

Worth mentioning Hypervolt don’t provide the 2nd CT clamp automatically in the box so that may contribute to installers not picking up on this point unless they are experienced in solar integration or don’t fully understand schemes like CA.

Where you made the comment “the car is currently charging ‘from solar’ despite it being night time”, I’m not certain but if you only currently have 1 CT clamp, it sounds like they have used the wrong CT port in the Hypervolt. By that I mean they may have connected the secondary CT port to the incoming domestic supply rather than inverter output.

Hi, I have charge anytime, solar panels and a battery and have just replaced a Zappi with the Hypervolt 3.0 Pro so that it is compatible. I would love to take part as I am currently very confused as to why the charger kicks in during the day 

​@gujursah It very much depends on how your solution is setup. But in my case I often see the EV charging kick in during the day if the solar generation is good, my home battery is full and the house demand is met easily (which has been the case these past couple of months of great sun). The Hypervolt needs 1.4kw of available solar energy and if that’s met, it should start charging. 

I see this going on/off throughout the day as my system looks to export the 1.4kw+ of spare energy. It goes to the EV first which is exactly what I want.

If everything is setup correctly, you would see “solar charging” active on your CA phone app at the time. And I often see roughly 8-9A on the Hypervolt app rather than the full 32A I see overnight when CA kicks in.

If solar panels are installed and the charge anytime smart charging is selected to off in the app - which allows the EV to be charged at anytime on your full tariff rate. 

Then solar is used to charge the EV would you be charged at 7p for the solar usage? Because your meter reading wouldn’t show any additional units to be charged. 

Is there a comparison done in the software between metered units and EV charging data so that the customer would be charged is this instance. Just curious on how the system works?

​@spence65 

I’m not sure there is a setting for off in the App, are you referring to the CA or Hypervolt App?

Anyway, if you were charging from solar outside of your CA schedules, none of that should get charged by OVO. They will just take your supply meter readings as normal, but apply the CA discount at the start of the month based on what you have used for the EV within the CA schedules. Thats certainly how mine works.

If you do have a Hypervolt also be aware its important that CT2 is installed as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, otherwise CA wont detect the solar charging.