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Solar Panel Output

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I have 9 x 230 watt Schott solar panels.
This should give me a maximum output of 2070 watt ??
Yesterday just happened to look at the panel on the inverter & it said it was producing 2300 watt.
How come ??

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  • SideKick
    SideKick Posts: 25 Forumite
    Guess the rating is a nominal value and they can exceed that in ideal conditions. I wouldn't complain ;-)
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,389 Forumite
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    mervyn11 wrote: »
    I have 9 x 230 watt Schott solar panels.
    This should give me a maximum output of 2070 watt ??
    Yesterday just happened to look at the panel on the inverter & it said it was producing 2300 watt.
    How come ??
    Hi

    If it's been cloudy for a while, or even raining, the panels will be cool, which makes them about 0.5% more efficient for each degreeC below their nominal efficiency at 25C. A sunny break in the clouds will not only provide direct radiation to the panels, but the cloud margins will also provide refracted and reflected light so you can have a short period of time when the irradiation is higher than the 1000W/sqm which the panels are nominally rated at, this is 'cloud edge effect'. It is also likely that the manufacturing tolerance on your particular panels is positive rated thus providing a higher output than the rated performance ....

    The combination of the above in some form will be what you saw ....

    HTH
    Z
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • Cardew
    Cardew Posts: 29,058 Forumite
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    Plus of course if you live in the South West of England you will get a higher output than anywhere else in UK
  • greyteam1959
    greyteam1959 Posts: 4,710 Forumite
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    I live in North Yorkshire........
    Not complaining !!
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