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  • Chris_Type_R
    Chris_Type_R Posts: 186 Forumite
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    A 1.9 for me too. Shading at this time of year reduces the width of the day in the morning and afternoon. 
    Central Beds, 2.02kWp (9 x 225W) south facing with some morning shade, installed 2011 (£7.16/Wp). Tigo monitoring/optimisers on all panels, Growatt MIC 2000 TL-X Inverter and Solar iBoost installed 2022. (4 x 415W + 6 x 405W garden experiment connected to SunSynk 3.6 hybrid inverter & 2 x 5.3kWh SynSynk batteries) (4 x 405W panels queued to go somewhere)
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    Another decent day here today 1.425 O’s👏
    16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
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    Not a great day here despite lots of lovely sunshine.

    Battery isolator switch has been tripping now and then and the electrician picked today to swap it for a new one. Turned up at 11am, turned off the system then realised he'd got the wrong part. Left to go on a shopping trip and had problems sourcing the right isolator. Finally got it fitted at 2pm so we'd missed all the best sun.

    0.42 O's


    Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Solar PV 5.25kWp SW facing (14 x 375) installed Mar 22 
    Lux 3.6kw hybrid inverter and 9.6kw Pylontech batteries 
    Daikin 8kW ASHP installed Jan 25
    Octopus Cosy/Fixed Outgoing 
  • Magnitio
    Magnitio Posts: 1,265 Forumite
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    Another reasonably good 1.55 O's. Now ahead of January PVGIS estimate for the first time.
    6.4kWp (16 * 400Wp REC Alpha) facing ESE + 5kW Huawei inverter + 10kWh Huawei battery. Buckinghamshire.
  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 819 Forumite
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    2.2 & 0.231 O's more of the same tomorrow please 
    2 Separate arrays, 7 x JASolar 380w panels (2.66kWp) south facing, 4 x JASolar 380w panels (1.52kWp) east facing, 11 x Tigo optimizers & cloud, Growatt SPH5000, Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery (Go-live 01/12/21) - Additional reporting via Solar Assistant.
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 5,105 Forumite
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    Best day this month 1.475 O’s today😀
    16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.
  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,279 Forumite
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    Another nice day and 2.1

    Tomorrow looks similar, shame the weather is due to break at the weekend. 
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 4,000 Forumite
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    1.51 O's That'll do  B)
    Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Solar PV 5.25kWp SW facing (14 x 375) installed Mar 22 
    Lux 3.6kw hybrid inverter and 9.6kw Pylontech batteries 
    Daikin 8kW ASHP installed Jan 25
    Octopus Cosy/Fixed Outgoing 
  • 70sbudgie
    70sbudgie Posts: 842 Forumite
    500 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
    Has no-one else had snow? I generated 0.1kWhrs each yesterday and today. And just listened to two days of snow fall off the panels! Was a somewhat unnerving sound. But oh wasn't worried, even though one lot of snow landed on his car.  :o
    4.3kW PV, 3.6kW inverter. Octopus Agile import, gas Tracker. Zoe. Ripple x 3. Cheshire
  • Coastalwatch
    Coastalwatch Posts: 3,730 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    No snow here, just three days of sunshine, 2.16 O's yesterday, another marginal high & nearly breaking the 20 kWh mark. :)
    East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kw SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kw WSW vertical. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x ASHP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H . CoCharger Host, Interest in Ripple Energy & Abundance.
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