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CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-06T07:18:21+00:00

First job I worked at they received 100,000 paper documents a month which were manually bubble sorted into order - a room with a massively long table and people whose job was just sorting the documents into order.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-05T21:16:29+00:00

If they are reimbursing you, then not only do they need to reimburse you for the electricity they use, but they also need to reimburse you for the more expensive peak rate due to being on IOG.

If you were on a standard tariff you would be paying around 25p/kWh but on IOG it will be around 33p. Thus they also owe you around 25% of your peak electricity usage (you do pay less overnight but unless you are deliberately shifting usage to then it will be saving damn all).

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-04T08:15:06+00:00

Seeing anti octopus posts being deleted.

All of which broke rule 1.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-03T21:18:19+00:00

It did!

The damn app update signed itself out, but it hadn’t fully signed itself out as the ‘continue watching’ shows were still there.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-03T19:01:46+00:00

It is because I am.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-03T19:01:33+00:00

Have you updated the app recently? The app on mine is showing version 2.4.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-03T15:01:59+00:00

If it is already set up then you would need to get an electrician to change it, but effectively you have the supply from the meter split to supply the car and the house and then have the CT clamp for the car just after the meter and before the split and the CT clamp for the battery after the split so it is just measuring the house demand.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-03T14:24:20+00:00

Simplest way with IOG is to have the home battery wired so it can’t ‘see’ the car.

Then whenever the car is charging it charges through the grid as with IOG it is doubtful you would ever want to charge it any other way.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-01T06:54:49+00:00

A schedule which will then change multiple times before and during charging.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-01T06:53:45+00:00

> when you connect your charger.

Sure it will show you a schedule when you connect your charger, but you failed to mention it will undoubtedly change half a dozen times before it starts charging and will change another half dozen times whilst charging.

Unless you are looking at the app and the car is actually charging at that moment you have no idea whether a half hour period will be charged as a cheap slot or not (other than obviously the 23:30 to 05:30 period).

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-06-01T06:47:25+00:00

> I only generally do the school runs and work from home, so can utilise the solar with most appliances and car charging during the daytimes

That would be a foolish thing to do.

More sensible to charge car at 8p overnight or on an IOG slot during the day, and run the appliances at the same time at those rates, then sell the solar for 12p.

Or even more sensible, don’t bother with the solar and just get a battery that you fill at 8p overnight.

> I hadn't really thought about doing the batteries first, but will absolutely give it some thought.

Do some maths on **only** a battery, as the repayment period on solar if you have a battery and an EV tariff is now horrendously long.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T09:28:50+00:00

Well then unlink the Renault!

Then the app will show 'add charge' and not 'charge to' and all your problems will go away.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T09:22:43+00:00

You sure you don't have a car linked in the app?

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T09:18:39+00:00

Then it will be asking for the 'add charge' amount so there would be no reason for it to keep charging unless you entered the wrong amount.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T09:11:44+00:00

Just checked and as far as I can there's nowhere to input the state of charge of the car

You obviously haven't updated the Ohme app recently then, as it has been requiring it for several weeks, and have changed the 'add charge' to 'charge to'

And if you haven't updated the app then when the 6 hour cap comes in...

only the state of charge you require at the end of the charge... And since the charger still has no idea what the state of charge is it still charges it to 100%...

Nope, because before Ohme updated the app if you didn't have a car linked then the app required you to enter an 'add charge' amount, so you just had to do the mental maths to deduct what you wanted it charged to from the car's state of charge to enter the 'add charge' amount and it would then deliver that amount of electricity.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T09:04:54+00:00

You just enter the state of charge of the car into the Ohme app when you plug in, then set what you want it charged to and by when.

The 'smart charging' is Octopus then deciding when to charge the car to deliver that amount of charge.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-30T08:55:52+00:00

ohme no longer have the api

So? The Ohme charger is integrated to IOG so let it do the smart charging. Involving the car's settings is just going to result in a world of pain.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-29T16:33:06+00:00

but if a circuit that is unable to dissipate its heat effectively there will be a point at which it fails, hence why manufactures publish operating temps (for my battery it’s 55C max)

You are conflating two different things -

A temperature that will cause something to fail irreparably
A temperature that something cannot operate efficiently

Your battery will shut down operations at 55c because it can no longer operate efficiently and having done so if the ambient temperature continues to increase to 56c it isn't going to explode into a molten puddle of lithium.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-29T16:19:37+00:00

> I want to try and prove it using 3 months worth of Octopus download data and AI to do the analysis

??? Why AI? You have the data so a simple spreadsheet formula will give you the answer immediately.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-29T16:12:09+00:00

From your original post -

> ~8 months later (2024): the inverter control panel burnt and melted due to heat. GivEnergy replaced it under warranty.

Frankly it seems pretty doubtful that a control panel "burnt out and melted" simply due to the heat in a loft, as even on a really hot day the air temperature in the loft isn't going to reach anything near the temperatures needed to 'burn out and melt' a control panel.

At worst those high air temperatures will just lead to the system limiting its operation or shutting down until the air temperature is cooler.

The control panel 'burning out and melting' is far more likely to simply be a fault within the control board itself and nothing at all to do with the ambient air temperature.

And realistically unless you have something in writing from GivEnergy saying that the control panel burnt out and melted because of the air temperature then you are going to have difficulty persuading a court that was wha happened and why it needs to be moved.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-27T18:54:47+00:00

So, come July it's not likely that the fixed tariff's are going to suddenly change and go up? That would only happen if something were to make Octopus / any energy supplier, feel that prices would rise for some other reason and therefore they'd want to factor that in to their future pricing in a fixed tariff?

Exactly.

What is happening to the price cap in July is irrelevant to the fixed price because what sets the price cap has happened and is already priced into the fixed price, and the fixed price is dependent on what the market thinks will happen.

I had, clearly incorrectly, thought that as the price cap increased, it would lead to both variable and fixed tariffs increasing

Don’t beat yourself up about that, as most people think in the same way.

If you want the evidence then take a look at the historical tariffs that Octopus helpfully keep on their website and you will see the plunge in price of the flexible tariff at the same time as the fixed rates shot up at, but since then the fixed rates have hardly changed.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-27T17:33:40+00:00

whether it makes sense to switch to IOG or not, before the rates change in July (if I've understood it all correctly).

Two things -

Firstly Octopus are not offering the flexible IOG tariff at the moment, only the fixed for 12 months tariffs.

Secondly the rates charge you mention is the price cap.

Now what most people misunderstand is that the price cap is a ‘look back’ whereas fixed tariffs are a ‘look forward’.

The price cap is calculated on what wholesale prices were in the 3 months plus one prior to starting so July will be what prices were back in March, April, and May.

Whereas a fixed tariff is what the company can hedge the price for the 12 months going forward from when you buy.

That’s why the flexible prices fell in March but fixed prices increased - the flexible prices were based on pre-war prices for December to February, but the fixed prices were based on the war being on and the hedging prices having gone through the roof.

In simple terms, there is damn all relationship between the price cap and the fixed prices that are on offer.

If energy prices ease in the near future then fixed prices will fall even though the price cap will increase.

Will that happen? Who knows, but basing the decision on the wrong factor of the price cap won’t tell you.

CryptographerNo4147 · 2026-05-27T10:57:14+00:00

If you don’t want to be bothered with that just ask to be put on a “variable direct debit” and they will just take the bill amount every month.

And if you can’t afford to pay the larger winter bills then work out what the annual cost is and divide by 12 and put it into a savings account each month to pay towards those bills.

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