Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

pinnks

Markj1110, have you also taken the opportunity to clear out your gutters and check the roof/eaves/gutters, lead work or whatever for state of repair while you have easy access? if anything needs doing you might be able to do a deal with the scaffolders to keep the scaffolding there for a few more days so you can fix or get fixed any issues. I ventured up to my ridge before the install and repaired the pointing which was a bit worse for wear after 30 years...

edwink

Welcome Mark from me too!!! I should have said welcome to the ruddy madhouse actually!!! You wait until this lot on here get started, there is no stopping them. especially Mart and Oscar!!! :eek::eek: oh and Tunnel and Merlin and Andy and sterling and theboylard and legoman and rosythfifer. They are all as bad as each other!!:rotfl:NUTTERS!!!


4.58 O's for us today!! We are now 3.17 O's over target so far!!


Edwink

Martyn1981

edwink wrote: »

welcome to the ruddy madhouse actually!!! You wait until this lot on here get started, there is no stopping them. :rotfl: especially Mart and Oscar!!! :eek::eek:

Edwink

Oi Winky! I'll have you know in my little world I'm perfectly sane ...... though I'm not too sure about Harvey, but keep that to yourself as he's standing behind me, but I distracted him with a carrot.

Got another Hawaii today, with 29kWh more in the pot. Just 8kWh short of month target. Going to risk the wrath of the gods, and PV posters, by saying May will be a fifth consecutive plus month.:j

Mart.

Sterlingtimes

Generated until 21:24. Just achieved 5 Os. Need 26 kWh to get to month target.

legoman62

Markj1110 wrote: »

Well, I now have my Solar panels fitted. Many thanks to all who helped me in my Quest to get what I wanted, not what they- the installers - wanted to fit. It was a big help to have a Forum with people willing to offer help and advice to a complete Newbie with regards to Solar panels.

Mark

Welcome aboard....another PVer from Lincs:)

Wasn't expecting much today. Went out just after lunch hoping to make 3 O's

PM, Sun came out and I ended the day with.....just over a Maiden or 24.3 kWh:T

Oscargrouch

tunnel wrote: »

Now I've ventured outside it's time for wine....over to you Oscar

With you all the way tunnel; l am on me second bottle (now turd) of my 13.5% WineBuddy Sav Blanc...

Right, what wuss |\ I doin, posting me result, crap day at a thingy, Hawaii + 1.08 O's...:rotfl:........

tunnel

Oscargrouch wrote: »

With you all the way tunnel; l am on me second bottle (now turd) of my 13.5% WineBuddy Sav Blanc...
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I'm only going to be one legless for another 2 weeks, yahhhhh, suppose I'll have to sober up then, boooo. Oh well, at least I have my solar :rotfl:

theboylard

Merlin139 wrote: »

May I ask whats an API?

Warning - long post!!!

Staight off google:
API, an abbreviation of application program interface, is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The API specifies how software components should interact and APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components.

With your solaredge setup, you are uploading data every 15 mins to SolarEdge's servers, which you can then look at and see the individual panels in a browser etc.

SolarEdge, after much deliberation, graciously allowed users access to their data via an api. This means you can give that api (think of it as a username/password combo that uniquely identifies your system) to another service which can then drag that data in and manipulate the info and present it in all manner of funky ways!

So my example was pvoutput.org - great site, not perfect but works really well most of the time.

http://pvoutput.org/list.jsp?userid=30729 is my account.

There is an MSE Team, but not many of us use it!

You create your free account on pvoutput, and you tell it how to get it's data.
Initially my only source of data was from my Geo Solo PV, as I had an SMA inverter but no online capability.
So, weekly, I uploaded the stats from the sd card to Geo's online portal.
I then downloaded the data from the portal and imported into my xl spreadsheet, got it down to around 5 mins to do everything on a Sunday or month end!

I could never get weatherunderground api (for free weather info) data to work as I never uploaded data during the day!

So I got my Solaredge API from my installer (I had solaredge retro fitted end of January this year). Added to my pvoutput settings and.... Didn't work!

Didn't really do anything about the api, I knew it was duff,.
Then last Friday, after I'd been drafting my to do list as I had taken redundancy, I emailed solaredge support and they came back after the weekend with a working api.

Plugged this in to pvoutput and suddenly I'm getting live data (well, every 15 mins!) and weather/temp to boot (as the live data was going in it pulled the weatherunderground data from their api!

countryman_2

Hawaii + very little more today (yesterday 28th actually)

And welcome to Mark, yet another Lincolnshire PV'er

Markj1110

Thankyou everyone for your welcome and advice. I did check the gutters etc, whilst up on the scaffold - all was good! The panels are on a single storey roof, so fairly easy to access gutters etc.

Only managed a Wink (4.6 O's) yesterday 28th, hardly saw the sun!