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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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£4.31 today (8.9 kWh) :cool:0
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just the 1 O for me today, got my retro fit solar edge inverter going in tomorrow on my SSW garage system that suffers with shading issues. Hopefully from tomorrow I should start to get some "better" results.
Hiya T, did you get the SE retro-fit sorted today? And do you also now have a WNW system, or is that to follow?
Just to let you know, membership of the WNW club comes with a complimentary counselling session, and if necessary a fMIR scan too!
Gen today 1/4 O (yesterday 1/2 O) mathematically that could mean either 1/8 O or no O tomorrow. O well.
Mart.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.0 -
Oscargrouch wrote: »Play the game, what's this 0.91 business? When I only do 0.48;
Don't get too upset. .. 1.036 O's today. You got your chance. ...0 -
Martyn1981 wrote: »Hiya T, did you get the SE retro-fit sorted today? And do you also now have a WNW system, or is that to follow?
Just to let you know, membership of the WNW club comes with a complimentary counselling session, and if necessary a fMIR scan too!
Mart.
Hiya Mart,
Yes and yes, I have a question though, how do you tell what the SE is doing/has done? Got home from work and its all in darkness so no idea how it performed this afternoon after it was commissioned this morning
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Ps No idea how I did today, power has been off and on all day so been a bit sketchy2 kWp SEbE , 2kWp SSW & 2.5kWp NWbW.....in sunny North Derbyshire17.7kWh Givenergy battery added(for the power hungry kids)0 -
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Hiya Mart,
Yes and yes, I have a question though, how do you tell what the SE is doing/has done? Got home from work and its all in darkness so no idea how it performed this afternoon after it was commissioned this morning
Good question, had to pop into loft and check. Once the on-line monitoring is sorted, you kind of forget about the inverter.
Right, assuming it's a SE2200 and nothing much has changed (since I got mine), you should find a nice big square green button underneath, on the RHS, near the front. Press that, and each press will bring up new info on the front screen. One of the screens will give you Wh's (daily, monthly, annual and total) but I assume all 4 will be the same for you, today. My TGM clocked up 0.6kWh today, and the inverter says 604Wh.
Wait till you go live on the monitoring portal, with individual panel Wh's and the playback function, showing actual W's throughout the day for each panel, so you can see how the shade travelled across the panels, and how the shaded panel(s) don't affect the others. Hours of fun, till you get bored of it!
Mart.
[Edit: love the new autosig! M.]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.0 -
Don't get too upset. .. 1.036 O's today. You got your chance. ...
That is obscene.........:mad:
Thought mine had too...only made 0.525 O's:rotfl:
That is acceptable, as I only made 0.52 O's as well....(can't get the extra digit to see if mine was 0.526 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:
Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).0 -
Hi, I'm a lurker on this thread. I have no roof suitable for SPs, too many chimneys and gables, etc. However I've bought 3 x 2 pairs and a secondhand inverter and with lots of instructions from the web I've put them on my chicken run. No FIT but getting me a bit back and I have all the children trained to alert me when the meter is 'red' - mummy, mummy, do the hoovering!!
SP have just reduced my direct debit by £22 per month so I'm very happy
Why no FiT, where are you dumping the spare output?
If it is not a rude question, what is your maximum rated output and what was the cost of the panels and inverter?
(I stayed with a family in the Andes, who cooked in a wood oven and the bathroom was a pump in the yard and 5 sheets of corrugate iron round a lavatory pan, flushed into the ground with a bucket; but they has a few solar panels on the roof feeding a battery. After dark the battery then powered the TV and three light bulbs.)0 -
You have to use an MCS certified installer to get the FiT (plus other qualifying criteria).John_Pierpoint wrote: »Why no FiT, where are you dumping the spare output?0 -
Yes that is the British interpretation of the expert person legislation from the EU.
As demonstrated above it is perfectly possible to join up the wires using a DIY manual.
Has this poster gone off grid and thus avoided the standing charges?
I am finding it difficult to understand how this installation can save £22 a month.even if it could use the grid to "store" the spare daytime production.0
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