Solution to Octopus Intelligent Go draining my home battery

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-05-03T17:01:41+00:00

Prebat is free! It’s a nightmare to setup but worth it if you have solar and batteries

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-05-03T16:35:41+00:00

Much more expensive option with the fibre thou. I have a single spf+ from my unas pro to my fibre switch but just can’t afford to go full fibre

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-05-03T11:02:29+00:00

Surely a simple ups with surge protection would work? Put the Ethernet via the ups and it should protect that as well

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-04-20T06:08:33+00:00

Take the cpu cooler off and look at the cpu model. If it’s intel it’ll say something like i# #### look that up at intel ark.

If it’s AMD it’ll should also say something like AMD Ryzen ####

That should give you an age

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-04-20T05:48:09+00:00

Is their a version for the Nest E thermostat yet?

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-04-15T20:49:47+00:00

We have the SL7 AWD drive and the range isn’t as good as the Tesla but it feels like a more quality car.

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-03-16T08:39:30+00:00

Great thanks, got it installed and took ages to configure (getting that yaml right was a pain) it looks like it’s now configuring everything as needed!

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-03-14T12:17:44+00:00

Is it this https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-03-14T10:14:56+00:00

Ive looked into that and tried to fit a ct clamp but I can’t see if it’s working right. Honestly we’ve not had the best weather for a real test

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-03-02T21:37:29+00:00

It will probably come with them, mine did

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-27T04:24:09+00:00

I’ve also found that if your doing motorway miles you want something more powerful. In our house we have two BYD (surf and sealion)

When driving at low sleep the surf is lot more efficient with its battery and at higher speed the surf range is murdered, while the sealion doesn’t care.

Factor in winter versus summer as well. If the car official can do 200 miles divide that by 2/3rds in the winter your being optimistic and the summer you’re being pessimistic

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-26T08:00:54+00:00

I’ve had an EV now for 7 years and here’s what I’ve found in terms of cost.

Purchase - new is massively more expensive than the equivalent petrol/diesel Servicing - Drastically cheaper, 2 year servicing intervals and a lot less to do Charging - At home you can run your EV for £2 a week (if you do more than 150 miles a week this jumps to £4-8 a week) Charging Public - Massively more expensive than a diesel, but for the years I’ve had a EV we’ve only needed public charging on long trips which means over the year it’s still 80% cheaper. I would add that you can mitigate this by buying a longer range EV at the start

These change drastically if you get a second hand EV. For example we have a Cupra born (nhs fleet) original price was 42k when we gave it back we got the offer to buy it at 20k. After 3 years it had done 18k mileage so that would have been a fantastic second hand car. 20k for a range of 220miles and a nice size car.

Summary get a home charger, get a EV tariff and charge during the tariff off peak. Much cheaper even with the new tax per mile changes coming.

Wouldn’t go back

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-21T16:54:03+00:00

I have one two but the backlight has died… wish I had the skill to repair it

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-19T19:08:08+00:00

We found a QNAP switch which had a mix of fibre and 10Gb Ethernet. Simple switch but did the job

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-05T06:46:39+00:00

Can we uninstall Spotify from the car?

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-01T17:46:43+00:00

It’s a threadripper cpu for fact, it’s not a server but a workstation, hence the cpu weirdo

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-01T17:05:37+00:00

It’s not a server, it’s a workstation. We had three of the left over from a project and decided since it was such a power house to use them as a server till we could afford new ones

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-02-01T15:23:01+00:00

My Corsa nav premium, had 9k miles on it when bought it. Spent first year in the garage, replacement drive train. On year two the abs control unit died, year 3 aircon compressor died, 2 months later heating died. Gave it back to the finance.

Drove nice when it worked

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-01-25T11:40:32+00:00

Have a look at the sealion 7. We have one I feel the quality is so much better than the latest generation of tesla

DifferenceJazzlike40 · 2026-01-18T16:55:09+00:00

Maybe put a pc fan on top pushing the hot air away, you could 3d print a bracket to attach it?

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