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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • old_grouser
    old_grouser Posts: 176 Forumite
    legoman62 wrote: »
    3.9 O's here today. Best day for over 6 months:T

    In really, really, really old money, 3.9 O's = 481 groats:)
    I've been chewing this over. A groat is four old pence, which means there are/were 60 groats to a pound, which makes 481 groats = £8.02 to the nearest new penny. That's about right for 3.9 Os at the generation value for a 2011 installation. But if you want really old money, it probably has to be Greek. Now I have a bronze hemiobol of Alexander the Great (type one, if anyone's interested) and this is about as old as any stable currency gets. A hemiobol (half an obol) would buy a (large) loaf of bread, or might be the most basic wage for a day's unskilled labour.The problem now is to convert Os into obols. In my view, using the minimum wage grossly overvalues the O, but thinking of the obol as the cost of two loaves of what passes for bread nowadays (say£2) might be about right. If so, a Hawaii would be five oboloi in really really old money, because it would buy about ten loaves for an averagish system. I rather like the idea of measuring solar generation in the currency of people who believed in a Sun God. What do other druids think?
    O G :cool: Somewhere on the South Downs
    3.29kWp S by E
    Greetings to Druids everywhere
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    edited 25 March 2017 at 10:42PM
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    Not too bad a day here; managed a/an Hawaii + 0.92 O's:D:j:beer::)...coffee.gif
    2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
    Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • Rheumatoid
    Rheumatoid Posts: 1,009 Forumite
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    6.4 O's

    Best since 26/8/16
    16 Panel (250W JASolar) 4kWp, facing 170 degrees, 40 degree slope, Solis Inverter. Installed 29/9/2015 - £4700 (Norfolk Solar Together Scheme); 9.6kWh US2000C Pylontech batteries + Solis Inverter installed 12/4/2022 Year target (PVGIS-CMSAF) = 3880kWh - Installer estimate 3452 kWh:Average over 6 years = 4400 :j
  • rugbyleaguesmate
    rugbyleaguesmate Posts: 281 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 100 Posts
    5.65 os today 38kw
    6.72kw Pv Ja Solar 280w * 24 panels, Solar Edge inverter, South facing no shading.
    South Lake District, delightful view of Morecambe Bay. Not Saving up for a battery too expensive:j:mad::hello:

    July Solar target 769kw
  • EricMears
    EricMears Posts: 3,309 Forumite
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    Another £10 day here yesterday and judging from weather at moment and forecasters suggestions, today might be a third.
    NE Derbyshire.4kWp S Facing 17.5deg slope (dormer roof).24kWh of Pylontech batteries with Lux controller BEV : Hyundai Ioniq5
  • Markj1110
    Markj1110 Posts: 912 Forumite
    5.28 O's yesterday. A HAWAII. :):)
    3.96 kWp System, SSE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 330W BenQ Panels, Solar Edge Inverter, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Installed 26th May 2015.
  • NigeWick
    NigeWick Posts: 2,729 Forumite
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    6.07 O's yesterday up to an hour before the sun actually set.
    The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    edited 26 March 2017 at 3:25PM
    EricMears wrote: »
    Another £10 day here yesterday and judging from weather at moment and forecasters suggestions, today might be a third.
    No such luck for me today: Inverter crashed at around 12:30. Showing the dreaded Error 031 on an Aurora Power One 3.6 kW. Think it means it's DEAD!
    Hope I am correct in thinking it has a 10 year manufacturers warranty, as the installer is no longer around.:(... My lot for the day is 1.6 O's...:mad:coffee.gif
    2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
    Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,997 Forumite
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    Oscargrouch wrote: »
    No such luck for me today: Inverter crashed at around 12:30. Showing the dreaded Error 031 on an Aurora Power One 3.6 kW. Think it means it's DEAD!
    Hope I am correct in thinking it has a 10 year manufacturers warranty, as the installer is no longer around.:(... My lot for the day is 1.6 O's...:mad:coffee.gif

    :mad:Ouch! Need to get it fixed ASP....just coming to the best time for solar PV
    I renewed my inverter warranty in Nov, just before my 5 yr warranty ran out:eek:

    Spoke to my installer (still around):cool: and he said if my inverter failed he could supply a Chinese one for £400.00.

    Checked with SMA and decided to take up their offer of a 5 yr "comfort warranty" for £220.00.

    Hope it will last until batteries become more cheaper/viable:D
    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.
  • ajbell
    ajbell Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    5 Os today and the 4th straight 5 O day in a row.


    85kWh in the last 4 days.
    4kWp, South facing, 16 x phono solar panels, Solis inverter, Lincolnshire.
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