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Tesla have increased my export limit to 11.2kW limit 😎 It will be interesting to see just how much more I manage to export now.

For the kitchen worktop lighting (which is 4.2m long), I am using a 24V LED strip (Warm White 2700K) and this is a dotless super bright (7000Lm) self-adhesive strip with 384 LEDs per meter. I bought 10m and the plan is to use control two 4.2m lengths independently using a Shelly Plus RGBW PM Wi-Fi module. The whole strip is rated at 80W (2 × 4.2m = 67W max) but I am not using all of it and I doubt it will ever be run at full brightness.

The Shelly Plus RGBW PM is a 4-channel Wi-Fi controller for LED strips that is designed to work with RGBW LED strips but I'm using two channels to control both sides of the kitchen worktop. Each channel can handle 4A and the device a total of 10A across all four channels.

Our smart home extension air conditioning was installed today. We have a split unit with this 2.5kW unit in the new master bedroom and a similar 5kW unit in the new open plan space.