Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

shafeeq

Much better then last few days but aim not good enough. 3.45 kwh today. ..

InVestor_2

7.9 kWh today

Had the Immersion on for nearly an hour, and a halogen heater rest of the day warming the house through.

Can't beat free electricity use.

jackieblack

4kWh here, a definite improvement on the last few days!

legoman62

6.64kWh for me today...much better:D
Sent FITs meter reading off
Total = 242kWh

This 3 months total is 20% down on same period 2011/2012:(

edwink

2.28kWh for us today. Not too bad as we still have shading issues from neighbours ruddy trees!!!:mad:

edwink

k66

6.74 kWh
Sunny Cheshire

Oscargrouch

shafeeq wrote: »

Much better then last few days but aim not good enough. 3.45 kwh today. ..

Problems with your sytem Sir ?

edwink wrote: »

2.28kWh for us today. Not too bad as we still have shading issues from neighbours ruddy trees!!!:mad:
edwink

That's what you get for living in the Rain Forest.(Bet I'm going to get it, smiley wise) :rotfl:
Anyway on to big big figures----4.2kWh today
During Feb: Meter went up by 87 kWh
Used: 106.8 kWh
Equates to 18.54% free Thank you EDF & Wattson/Holmes..not forgetting Georgeee Boy :rotfl:

John_Pierpoint

I have an inverter with two strings.
The panels are two rows of portrait and a bottom row of landscape

Snow tends to slither down onto the landscape and then as it falls off the bottom of the landscape row, it forms a dam as it tries to perch on the skirt of tiles before falling into and over the square section gutter.

As it is a bungalow, clearing the skirt is no real problem; however this time I got a dam at the bottom of a top row panel; evidently some water had dripped down the crack and refrozen thus keying the snow at the lower edge of the top panel.

In my shed of junk, in the vintage 1960s section, I found a cobweb brush, with a telescopic handle, similar to the picture below, enhanced by a runner bean cane up its bottom end, it can reach virtually the whole roof:j



Completely off the subject of generation, the "sun" sign below is a "fire mark".
Before the concept of municipal fire brigades had developed, it was every house owner for themselves (as it still is on the high seas) and to encourage private enterprise the insurance companies would mark the buildings they insured.
The organisation with a fire pump then knew it would get paid for its efforts (as it rushed past the other buildings to get to the one with a fire mark!)

Has anyone seen a similar sun image cast in concrete in a local garden centre ?
[I want to paint one golden and put it on my roof - just how kitch can you get?]

grahamc2003

Happy system birthday John. My puny 1.75kW system produced 1225kWh, but for a couple of months had pretty bad shading from a now ex-tree. Also I get a bit of shading mid summer from a chimney shadow just covering a small part of a row of panels. I may have a few more trees chopped which are currently shading the panels, but in few weeks the sun will clear those.

I bought a chimney sweeping/drain cleaning set off ebay to use like you to clear any snow off the panels. Unfortunately, the high ceilinged rooms in my old house mean I doubt when all the rods are assembled that they'll reach. (I haven't tried it yet because as you can imagine, I ordered when it snowed a lot, and it arrived when it had just melted a lot). I did try to blow the snow off wioth my pressure washer, which while it can act more or less like a paint stripper when cleaning the car if set incorrectly, when pointed up at the roof, the jet didn't stay focussed and ended up basically as rain by the time it reached the mogels on the panels. I lost a 5 days of generation due to the snow, which for me at this time of the year equates to about 2kWh in total!

John_Pierpoint

I would be careful - can one crack the panels with thermal shock ?

The drain/chimney rods are an idea but mine have metal fitments and are a lot heavier than a cobweb brush - I think I would wrap a pad round the metal bits for fear of scratching the surface.