Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Merlin139

1961Nick wrote: »

My advice is to move next door to Merlin...

JKenH wrote: »

Now that would be depressing:)

I live in a nice area on the edge of town and have fields behind me. 3 houses to my left have panels and on the right the next but 1 has panels. No one is moving in next door when the Salvation Army move out or sell the property as it will be blown up because it causes shading to my roof in the afternoon! You would be welcome to pitch a tent on the rubble!:rotfl:

I cannot tell you how well others around do with their panels because whenever I have asked I get various responses along the lines of they save us money of the bill. When I ask how many kWh they produce in a year I get answers of £300 to £550 per year. Obviously not PV geeks like us lot on here.;)

JKenH

Merlin139 wrote: »

I live in a nice area on the edge of town and have fields behind me. 3 houses to my left have panels and on the right the next but 1 has panels. No one is moving in next door when the Salvation Army move out or sell the property as it will be blown up because it causes shading to my roof in the afternoon! You would be welcome to pitch a tent on the rubble!:rotfl:

I cannot tell you how well others around do with their panels because whenever I have asked I get various responses along the lines of they save us money of the bill. When I ask how many kWh they produce in a year I get answers of £300 to £550 per year. Obviously not PV geeks like us lot on here.;)

I am constantly stressed by my east west panels underperforming so living next door to you would be really depressing. It is bad enough here as 100m away there is a solar array that I watch on PVOutput and he had a maiden this week and was hitting 7 Os all through May last year. Nick1961 is only 7 miles away and he is regularly banging in Hawaii’s. I thought Mart would understand my pain but even he has had a Hawaii. I have just scraped the one solitary wink.

I used to have open fields behind me but when we moved here we planted more than a thousand trees which are now doing their bit to shade my panels in the evening.

Zarch

Merlin139 wrote: »

I cannot tell you how well others around do with their panels because whenever I have asked I get various responses along the lines of they save us money of the bill. When I ask how many kWh they produce in a year I get answers of £300 to £550 per year. Obviously not PV geeks like us lot on here.;)

:rotfl:

When people ask me about our Solar I turn into a kWh / PVGIS geek reeling off stats-a-plenty..... I can see their eyes glaze over and their heads start to spin.

4.3 O for 132% of daily PVGIS.

Eeeked 3W out at 7:55pm....... ooooh those longer days!

JKenH

Zarch wrote: »

Eeeked 3W out at 7:55pm....... ooooh those longer days!

My online (inverter) stats say the panels were doing 70w at 19.55, 50w at 20.20 and 10w at 20.50 but I’m not so sure. What I find is that once we get down below 70w the generation meter doesn’t register any further PV.

Just out of interest earliest generation I have seen this year is 30w at 6am a couple of days ago. The inverters don’t switch on until the panels (usually on the east roof) generate 30w.The last couple of days have been late starts but on 11th April we got off to a flier and were generating 2.13 kw at 07.40.

Merlin139

A good day!

Hawaii + 0.87 O's

legoman62

4.675 O's here today:D

JKenH

Merlin139 wrote: »

A good day!

Hawaii + 0.87 O's

I have to consider 3.7 Os a good day.

Oscargrouch

Not a great day with 4.68 O's..:cool:..

Coastalwatch

Merlin139 wrote: »

A good day!

Hawaii + 0.87 O's

Looks like your the man to beat today Merlin!


5.6 O's here taking us to 104.5% compared to pvgis v4 and 96% of v5. I wonder which we shall be closer to come month end!

1961Nick

4.77 O's yesterday.

Now at 74% PVGIS.