Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Martyn1981

dreaming wrote: »

Question from PV novice -is there such a thing as "too much" generation?

Have spent most of the weekend so far looking at how the sun moves round the roof and can see that I will get very good coverage (is there a proper term?) for good deal of the day from about 6.30a.m. (SE) to 6.00p.m. SW (but also hardly any shading on SE until 3.00p.m.) as I live in a bungalow with no trees and hardly any shading. So I can see that running electric heating in winter during daytime (gas ch other times) will use a good deal, but in summer will the generation be too much?

You what!!! Too much generation!!!!!

I know I suggested you pop onto this thread and insult Oscar and Shafeeq (;)) but I never said anything about blasphemy. :rotfl:

Regarding light levels, I think there are proper terms, such as insolation levels etc, but daylight and sunlight probably suffice. Daylight is nice, with panels generating even out of the sun, but sunlight is the money maker.

In the summer you'll probably be generating up to 9pm ish, but don't expect to boil a kettle for free.

Mart.

dreaming

Martyn1981 wrote: »

You what!!! Too much generation!!!!!

I know I suggested you pop onto this thread and insult Oscar and Shafeeq (;)) but I never said anything about blasphemy. :rotfl:

Regarding light levels, I think there are proper terms, such as insolation levels etc, but daylight and sunlight probably suffice. Daylight is nice, with panels generating even out of the sun, but sunlight is the money maker.

In the summer you'll probably be generating up to 9pm ish, but don't expect to boil a kettle for free.

Mart.

Sorry - bows humbly in apology.

Can't help looking at weather and thinking "that could be all mine". Patience has never been my strong point.

Oscargrouch

dreaming wrote: »

Sorry - bows humbly in apology.

Can't help looking at weather and thinking "that could be all mine". Patience has never been my strong point.

No need to apologise to Mart; he's used to it on hear.

Take a look at this: Put in your address or use auto locate and you will see how the sun hits your roof on whatever day you want...:beer:

http://www.suncalc.net/#/52.2405,-0.9027,12/2012.12.06/15:45

tunnel

dreaming wrote: »

Sorry - bows humbly in apology.

Can't help looking at weather and thinking "that could be all mine". Patience has never been my strong point.

:rotfl: We all do that even with the panels up and running.

k66

Has anyone ever generated the maximum output of their panels?

InVestor_2

k66 wrote: »

Has anyone ever generated the maximum output of their panels?

Maybe on the Equator

Have passed mine temporarily sometimes. Ie cloud to Sun.

Most I've seen maintained for more than a few seconds was about 94%.

This gonna start a new thread of competition?

EricMears

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Well done: All you need to do now is discover where the >thanks< button is......

Who am I supposed to be thanking for the sun shining ? I don't even think it would be appropriate to thank the forecasters for telling me in advance when it was going to shine (not that they often do !).

EricMears

10.59 kWh on Friday , 9.6 yesterday and 13.04 today. :beer:

That's already brought Feb's daily average to just under the PVGIS forecast and another few days like that would be welcomed.

Alas, our weather forecasters can claim very little credit. On each of the last three days they'd told me "mainly cloudy but a few sunny intervals".

tunnel

Yes,not a bad day indeed Eric up here in N derbyshire,a very nice 13.855kWh in the bag today, 3 loads in dishwasher,roast beef dinner,5 cups of tea(caravan kettle) and not a single watt bought from the grid.:D

Tunnel

shafeeq

Better then yesterday 8.19 kwh today.