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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • shafeeq
    shafeeq Posts: 973 Forumite
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    A big fat ZERO today
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,988 Forumite
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    Only 180Wh for me.
    Roll on summer:)
    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.
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,401 Forumite
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    Snap 0.18 kWh today.

    It would be interesting to know how much power was consumed by the inverter trying to lock onto that level of generation?
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    John_Pierpoint wrote: »
    Snap 0.18 kWh today.

    It would be interesting to know how much power was consumed by the inverter trying to lock onto that level of generation?
    :D .... congratulations .... that's 15x what we generated today !! .... :cool::T
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • tunnel
    tunnel Posts: 2,601 Forumite
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    Managed 0.324kWh today.

    Went out sledging with my son and had a look at the other houses with panels on,i know which houses have ASG panels on and they aint earning a penny around my estate at the minute...not one single clear roof.

    I guess when they're not your own you don't give a ****,me personnally i'd be out there trying to clear them,i'd still want the free leccy. As a footnote all the houses are actually bungalows.

    It looks like theres only my garage roof supplying all the "green energy" around me....not likely...the wife uses it all:D

    Tunnel
    2 kWp SEbE , 2kWp SSW & 2.5kWp NWbW.....in sunny North Derbyshire17.7kWh Givenergy battery added(for the power hungry kids)
  • shafeeq
    shafeeq Posts: 973 Forumite
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    hi

    0.09 kwh better then yesterday
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    edited 20 January 2013 at 7:16PM
    shafeeq wrote: »
    hi

    0.09 kwh better then yesterday

    It that 90Wh in simple terms?:rotfl:

    6.5 kWh today.... be nice, those were the days....:rotfl:

    Only 100 Wh for me though..as the teacher says 'have to do better Shafeeq'. smiley-taunt002.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).
  • k66
    k66 Posts: 354 Forumite
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    1.18 kWh today.
    :hello:
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,401 Forumite
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    edited 20 January 2013 at 11:09PM
    John_Pierpoint wrote: »
    Snap 0.18 kWh today.

    It would be interesting to know how much power was consumed by the inverter trying to lock onto that level of generation?

    A big fat ZERO today or more accurately production was <10 Wh.

    It started snowing at 08:00 and continued to snow gently all day. The Aurora inverter had woken up by 08:00 but had not generated anything.
    By the end of the day it was boasting a peak output of 11 watts.
    At about 15:00 in a temperature of 1 C the snow started to slide exposing the top row of the three rows of panels. Eventually half the snow slid off the panels and the roof.
    My 2 strings must be formed of the top row and half the mid row, and similarly half the mid row and all of the bottom row. One string was claiming over 200V and a power of 9 watts. The other 90V and 0 watts. At this stage the generation meter turned off its constant red light (but I never saw it flash the generation of a whole watt).

    Can we say that keeping the inverter ticking over but generating nothing uses less than 9 watts ?

    It must be using something, because the temperature of the inverter was reported as 14 C in an attic with a temperature of less than 8 C.

    [As an afterthought, it is not just in Glencoe where hikers can be overcome by avalanches. Anyone hiking along my front path past the living room window was at risk of being smothered. Soft snow today but it could be lumps of ice tomorrow.
    When I was a kid, I remember people would have metal grids along their guttering to restrain dangers like this - anyone else done their risk assessment? ]
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,988 Forumite
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    0.57kWh yesterday.
    More snow here today!
    Temp here is around 32F
    Pal in Perth(Australia) also has 32...only difference is he has 32C
    Wonder if he would swap us a couple of weeks:rotfl:
    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.
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