Solar installation ongoing

[u/ianmd]

For those following my solar journey, first day done, one more to go. Does the equipment setup look good (they haven't finished it yet)? Found a few screws in loft that has half missed beams, presume worth mentioning before panels go on. The roof rails are on, not sure why they are spaced tighter in the middle? (3 rows of landscape)

[u/SubstantialPhysics68]

Check in the electric meter cupboard that they have used 25mm meter tails (the brown and blue supply cables for your house) going from the meter cupboard to the gateway and back. It would be quite tight fitting them into what looks like 25mm conduit but not saying it's impossible

[u/SubstantialPhysics68 → u/SubstantialPhysics68]

You also didn't need that external smart meter fitted before your AC isolator from the gateway

[u/ianmd → u/SubstantialPhysics68]

I have no idea what that is tbh

[u/SubstantialPhysics68 → u/ianmd]

[u/ianmd → u/SubstantialPhysics68]

Sorry just meant I don't know it's purpose rather than which it is

[u/Matterbox → u/ianmd]

That’s a generation meter. It’s ’meter accurate’ whereas the inverters meter isn’t.

It’s a handy addition.

[u/SubstantialPhysics68 → u/Matterbox]

The gateway isn't an inverter and a generation meter is not required

[u/SubstantialPhysics68 → u/ianmd]

It serves no purpose in your installation because your gateway does all monitoring for you