Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Kernel_Sanders

EricMears wrote: »

If July hadn't been quite so good, I'd have been really pleased with August. 428kWh generated is 6.2% above PVGIS forecast.


But having got 127% of PVGIS in July, afraid I'm a bit disappointed

I'm afraid you've been spoilt by the July weather

KevinG

Woo, first ever September Maiden with 6.00 Os! :j:j:j

JKenH

Got home at last and switched the solar panels back on at 11.20am. Cursing about missing yesterday and most of this morning's generation. 2.8 O's today (would have made 4 O's I reckon had the panels been on since 7am.)

Oscargrouch

JKenH wrote: »

Got home at last and switched the solar panels back on at 11.20am. Cursing about missing yesterday and most of this morning's generation. 2.8 O's today (would have made 4 O's I reckon had the panels been on since 7am.)

How is the problem progressing with the installers? Was hoping for a Hawaii today, but alas, only 4.76 O's...:(...

legoman62

Another good day here = 4.875 O's today:D
Gas and leccy for July/August £39.22 inc £6.99 a month "membership":T

Coastalwatch

Coastalwatch wrote: »

Consumption down to 31% of generation yesterday, but on the plus side 5.5 O's for the last day of August making it the seventh best of the month.:j With daylight hours shortening now I doubt it will be surpassed again this year. But you never know the start of September is looking promising.

So, what do I know! First day of September and 5.65 O's.:j Consumed less than 10% of it though.
78 kWh imported plus 90.4 kWh gas consumed with a total bill of £22.14 inc £1.07 vat membership!

Merlin139

Another good day. Best day of the month and best 1st September since install.

Hawaii + 0.5 O's

JKenH

Oscargrouch wrote: »

How is the problem progressing with the installers?

They are coming out to fix it next week :T
I suggested they wait until Scottish Power have changed the meter - my current one spins backwards- as otherwise they would only have to come out again to the IBoost clamp if it didn’t work again after the Scottish Power visit.

In case Mart is reading this the system has a 30ma RCD with separate MCBs for the panels and the Moixa system.

On a more positive note, data from 11.20am until midnight yesterday shows our overall consumption for the day of 16.7kWh of which Solar provided 88%, battery 8% and grid 4%. The battery figure was low because it never got fully charged yesterday with the late start and ran out about 11.15pm.

As at 8.48am today the panels on the E side are generating 1.85kw and the W 0.2kw.

ASavvyBuyer

2.97 O's for yesterday.
That's now 4 months in a row that have outperformed previous years & PVGIS estimate. :j:rotfl::j

Martyn1981

JKenH wrote: »

In case Mart is reading this the system has a 30ma RCD with separate MCBs for the panels and the Moixa system.

Hmmm! As I've said, I'm no electrician, but certainly read lots of comments/discussions about PV systems tripping out on 30mA due to the way they earth. So apologies for a possible wild goose chase, but you might want to raise this issue with the installers (some bloke on the internet said) and see what they say about the need for 100mA.

Either way, it would be really good for some feedback on here so we can all learn a bit more and hopefully advise better in the future.

Edit - I just Googled "PV 30mA or 100mA?" and got a MSE hit. The short thread has a post from myself linking to some discussions on the Navitron site with info from actual PV installers. Whether this is relevant, or even up to date, I don't know, but possibly worth a quick skim:

Solar panels Tripping RCD when it rains