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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 817 Forumite
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    Very hot again, 5.9 & 1.5 O's
    2 Separate arrays, 7 x JASolar 380w panels (2.66kWp) south facing, 4 x JASolar 380w panels (1.52kWp) east facing, 11 x Tigo optimizers & cloud, Growatt SPH5000, Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery (Go-live 01/12/21) - Additional reporting via Solar Assistant.
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,993 Forumite
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    Hawaii 😴 + 0.575 O's here today
    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.
  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,267 Forumite
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    edited 12 August 2022 at 11:09PM
    Another Hawaii today +0.3
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • Martyn1981
    Martyn1981 Posts: 15,398 Forumite
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    edited 13 August 2022 at 3:27PM
    Just got a massive increase in my ESE generation (well not really). Been thinking the gen (power) on the monitor was low recently (whole last month), but put it down to heat reducing panel performance even more than I'd expected. Daily gen total has been great, so no problems.

    Then today, having a pee (too much info?) in the downstairs toilet (aka 'the powerstation), and decided to check daily total on the Solaredge inverter, and noticed live gen was higher than the living room monitor had just said.

    Cue, nipping back and for to compare, followed by wifey standing in the living room shouting out updates to me, and the monitor was only showing about 2/3rds of the inverter reading. I knew the daily totals on the TGM matched the inverter, so started to scratch my head, why the monitor was understating, since it simply reads the Wh flashes on the TGM.

    DOH!!!!!! Remembered changing the batts in the Optismart a month ago, whose LED reader sits over the TGM flasher. Quick check, and I'd somehow managed to change the piggin setting from 1,000 (for 1,000wh flashes = 1kWh) to 1,600.

    Really annoying, because I'd been using the power monitors in the living room to adjust the Amp charging limits for the BEV (on the phone app), so I could have been charging more for a month, though tbf we did manage to get by anyway just on PV charging.

    What a silly sausage I am!


    Still getting about an Hawaii each day, so excellent gen for August, but too hot, and we desperately need some rain now.
    Mart. Cardiff. 8.72 kWp PV systems (2.12 SSW 4.6 ESE & 2.0 WNW). 20kWh battery storage. Two A2A units for cleaner heating. Two BEV's for cleaner driving.

    For general PV advice please see the PV FAQ thread on the Green & Ethical Board.
  • gefnew
    gefnew Posts: 932 Forumite
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    Is this going to be the longest time that we have days of perfect bell curves on our systems four days running.
    and some more to come.
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,259 Forumite
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    Groundhog day number 3

    Hawaii + 0.95 O's

    64.7 % of estimate in the bag. :)
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • Spies
    Spies Posts: 2,267 Forumite
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    Another Hawaii +0.35

    Bit of high cloud today which affected my curve but ultimately hardly lost anything compared to yesterday. 
    4.29kWp Solar system, 45/55 South/West split in cloudy rainy Cumbria. 
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 3,873 Forumite
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    Very slightly down today 5.58 O's (5.66 previous 2 days) might have been a degree warmer today
    Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Solar PV 5.25kWp SW facing (14 x 375) Lux 3.6kw hybrid inverter installed Mar 22 and 9.6kw Pylontech battery 
    Daikin 8kW ASHP installed Jan 25
    Octopus Cosy/Fixed Outgoing 
  • ggmf
    ggmf Posts: 817 Forumite
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    6.0 & 1.4 O's
    2 Separate arrays, 7 x JASolar 380w panels (2.66kWp) south facing, 4 x JASolar 380w panels (1.52kWp) east facing, 11 x Tigo optimizers & cloud, Growatt SPH5000, Growatt 6.5kWh Hybrid battery (Go-live 01/12/21) - Additional reporting via Solar Assistant.
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    Getting lower with this heat A/An 



    + 0.720 O's   
    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).
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