Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

legoman62

Another triple O today. 3.025 O’s.

Coastalwatch

3.34 O's, so nudging us back a little closer to pvgis.

Merlin139

Some nice sun and again too many clouds.

4.41 O's

Up to 56.7% of Estimate when we should be at 74.2%

85 kWh's needed to better worst March of 2018

Magnitio

Alnat1 said:

O's are the size of your array (kWp) divided by the day's yield (kWh)

They were invented by a forum member to even things out a bit so the one with the most panels didn't always "win".  

I think you have used an inverter on your calculation!

Yesterday's results: 21.3 kWh / 6.4 kWp = a decent result for a change - 3.33 O's

Merlin139

Paulrn said:

For a newby can someone tell me what the O’s are is it total KW yield ?

My system is only 3.975 kWp and what would be classed as a good day from the middle of March to say the end of September is 20 kWh.

This would give me 5.03 O's 

I would announce this as a/an Hawaii + 0.03 O's

2 O's = Bond, As in 007
3 O's = TyphOOO
4 O's = Winks, 40 winks
5 O's = Hawaii, Hawaii 5 O
6 O's = Maiden, 6 balls in an over
7 O's = Heaven, in 7th Heaven
8 O's = Potato's 8 O's sounds like Potatoes!

This is what we came up with a few years back.

Not had any Hawaii this year yet! My earliest was in 2023 on the 7th.

Martyn1981

Alnat1 said:

O's are the size of your array (kWp) divided by the day's yield (kWh)

They were invented by a forum member to even things out a bit so the one with the most panels didn't always "win".  

Apologies for the pedantry, but it's the other way around, daily yield, divided by the array size kWp.

Yep, named after Oscargrouch (wonder where he's gone?) And of course, a totally made up nickname "O's" on here (MSE), the correct term is kWh/kWp, but that takes too long to type. Many years ago I saw someone mention how many O's they'd generated, on an entirely unrelated website ..... and confused the hell out of everyone.

Grandad2b

Suddenly realised we passed 1000 O's yesterday. It's taken 423 days.

I thought you'd want to know.
I haven't been keeping up with daily numbers lately - I need to do some automating!

pete-20-11

3.7 Os today. Looks like next few days will be poor though. 

Alnat1

Not quite as good as Saturday and feeling colder 3.01 O's

Coastalwatch

Lot of cloud threatening rain yet not really delivering anything, in between there were some brighter spells allowing 2.4 O's to be generated. 

Spent the day clearing out front guttering and installing pipework and another butt for collecting excess rainwater for applying to raised beds just opposite. Was also supposed to have weeded same and sown seeds as well but got no further than putting a few of last years runner beans into soak prior to hopefully sowing tomorrow.

Might even get around to adding a tap from mains for washing the car, eventually.