Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 995Feb 17, 2017 4:38 pm Follow Our Build Here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75667 Building with Kurrajong Homes in Alumuna Walk Village. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 998Apr 04, 2017 7:34 am Picto Christoshizz Spooky8080 Ok, you guys might think this is unnecessary, but one thing we did is: At our front entrace we have a 5 gang lightswitch. Apart from four of the switches being for front light, hallway light, column lights and garden lights, the fifth switch (middle switch on the wall plate) is to ISOLATE EVERY SINGLE LIGHT IN THE HOUSE. This way, you can walk out the front door and with one flick of a switch all your lights are off. When you come back home, a single flip of a switch puts back on any of the lights which were on before you left home. So simple but so convenient. What an amazing idea. How hard is that to do??! This would be pretty easy. A switch wire from the switch inside to a relay in your switchboard that just isolates the lighting circuit. Although keep in mind this would turn off everything on that circuit including external sensor lights. I was just thinking about this on the weekend. With the above great idea, I'd have external lights put onto a separate circuit as I'd need to have external sensor lights have access to power. I have seen many display homes use this idea to turn off all PowerPoints in the same manor, however with the intention of adding solar panels with a distinct 'afternoon' generation for Net Feed In optimisation, this then maybe counter intuitive. Thoughts? Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 999Apr 04, 2017 8:37 am GLO Picto Christoshizz [quote="Spooky8080"]Ok, you guys might think this is unnecessary, but one thing we did is: At our front entrace we have a 5 gang lightswitch. Apart from four of the switches being for front light, hallway light, column lights and garden lights, the fifth switch (middle switch on the wall plate) is to ISOLATE EVERY SINGLE LIGHT IN THE HOUSE. This way, you can walk out the front door and with one flick of a switch all your lights are off. When you come back home, a single flip of a switch puts back on any of the lights which were on before you left home. So simple but so convenient. What an amazing idea. How hard is that to do??! This would be pretty easy. A switch wire from the switch inside to a relay in your switchboard that just isolates the lighting circuit. Although keep in mind this would turn off everything on that circuit including external sensor lights. I was just thinking about this on the weekend. With the above great idea, I'd have external lights put onto a separate circuit as I'd need to have external sensor lights have access to power. I have seen many display homes use this idea to turn off all PowerPoints in the same manor, however with the intention of adding solar panels with a distinct 'afternoon' generation for Net Feed In optimisation, this then maybe counter intuitive. Thoughts? [/quote] Reliance upon net feed in for returns on your pv system seems like the slowest way to pay it back to me. Currently in nsw the buy back is sitting around 6c/kwh where as your usage is at around 25c/kwh. Looking at it like this every kwh you use instead of feeding in nets you a gain of 19c/kwh purely by the fact that you aren't paying this out of your own pocket. So to answer your question it does seem counter intuitive in that regard. But the above scenario relies heavily upon changing your habits. The ability to use your heaviest loads during peak producing times is key. Can you put your dishwasher, washing machine etc on during the middle of the day? Maybe even the aircon on in the early afternoon to moderate the house temp prior to arriving home from work? If you aren't able to do this then I guess the next best option would be to reduce the power your house uses as low as possible to maximize your feed in credits for later usage. You would need to run a seperate circuit for you frigde, security system etc if you wanted to do this on the gpo circuits, once again adding more money and increasing the buy back time of your pv system. I am by no means a solar expert, this is just my personal opinion. There is plenty of info about this available online from people far more savvy. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1000Apr 06, 2017 12:06 am Spooky8080 Ok, you guys might think this is unnecessary, but one thing we did is: At our front entrace we have a 5 gang lightswitch. Apart from four of the switches being for front light, hallway light, column lights and garden lights, the fifth switch (middle switch on the wall plate) is to ISOLATE EVERY SINGLE LIGHT IN THE HOUSE. This way, you can walk out the front door and with one flick of a switch all your lights are off. When you come back home, a single flip of a switch puts back on any of the lights which were on before you left home. So simple but so convenient. Depends what you're current inclusions are, but we're not including wardrobes and will just use second hand ones until we can save later on to get them built. Also have a… 3 11824 Looking to start the journey of becoming an owner builder in SA. Feeling pretty (overly) confident on the building and construction details, but really struggling to find… 0 8555 No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6789 |