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Scary prospect of getting solar panels - is this a good deal?
Hi all, Had a visit yesterday from the myplanet rep for our area with a view to getting solar panels for our property. We're going for the finance option to pay for it but the amounts involved are scary! :eek: In summary, we have a large detached house, southeast-northwest facing (roughly) and have room for 16 panels…
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Green deal for solar panels?
Hi everyone- just after advice/pointers/warnings whatever you can give me. Had a guy come out the other day who'd been fitting PV panels in our street. He said its NOT a rent a roof scheme, but works a as a loan, though I pay nothing as it comes from the feed in & a charge made at the meter. Link to their site & bumf is…
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Panasonic HIT panels and Solaredge power optimizers.
As the Panasonic 240w panel is only 798mm wide we can squeeze 16 on to our roof. We'd only get 12 of the Solarworld 250w mono black panels on. So 3.8kW (around £8k) versus 3kW (around £5.5k). The quotes include a Solar iBoost and Geo monitor. Another option, one of the suppliers has suggested, is a Solaredge inverter and…
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SMA Sunny Portal Problem
Guys, Anyone out there using SMA's Sunny Portal - Webconnect or Speedwire modules connected to the Interweb? (www.sunnyportal.com) Mine was working fine until November 2013 when it suddenly stopped receiving data from the inverter/house. This coincided with Virgin replacing my router, so it was not clear quite what caused…
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Solar panels East West House
We live in a semi in southern UK - with the roof running East / West - not South facing - which I understand is not suitable for solar panels Why ? The sun does shine - directly on the back of the house, until midday, then pm - the sun shines directly on the front of the house Whilst, I can accept that we are not going to…
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Poor Drainage
Daughter's new (rented) house has an area at the back door that was covered in pallets that were apparently used to support a shed. We lifted the pallets because there was a mouse problem. Underneath is heavy wet soil littered with lumps of cement, and it's very boggy although the weather has been dry for a week at least.…
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sunny day, clear skies, lower output
Hi As the title really im just trying to understand why. Today is sunny again, warmest so far and clear skies. However my panels all in direct light are only putting out 1.7 Kw. Now in less clear days I have my panels maxed out at over 2. What could cause the drop. Is it possibly lack of cloud causi g no reflections back…
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Hot water temperature after Immersun fitted
We got an Immersun when our PV was installed about a month ago . Now the water is alot hotter than it used to be and we haven't altered anything on the thermostat . Is there a problem with this occurring ? The thermostat is on the element , isn't it ? This is set at 60deg but the water is alot hotter than this . The…
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Solar power at nigh after sunny day
Hello, Can someone explain me how is that working? Solars producing energy "live"...is that power stored any way or going streight to the grid? For example today I produced some energy, but used just 30% from it...whats happen with the rest of 70%? Is it going streight to the grid for a sell or what?:) In easier worlds: if…
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Solar quote - any good?
Hi, This is my first post on here just wanted to get some opinions on this quote I've received for £7,895: Includes:- 12 Benq 330W Solaredge Inverter Owl Intuition h Voltage Optimiser 20 x LED’s Installation QANW 10 year Warranty on Workmanship EPC MCS Does this seem reasonable? I was interested in SunPower to begin with…
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The great onslaught from/of Slugs
I believe that this year - after a mild winter - we are going to get a lot of slugs in our gardens I was wondering what methods people had used to get rid of them - apart from slug pellets (which can harm hedgehogs) - I have used nematodes in the past - but these are expensive and cruel to the 'todes - so what else have…
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Solar Panel quote, please help.. I'm (easily)confused
Hello everyone I've read a lot of very interesting posts on here about solar panels and hope it's ok if I ask advice about our upcoming choice of system. We have had a quote from a local firm for 8 panels in two horizontal lines of four on our south facing virtually shade free roof, 8 panels is all we can have due to velux…
