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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
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Another Hawaii today + 0.87 O's:T
3 loads of washing, lunch cooked, dishwasher on, grass cut,
charged everything up + all the normal things we do, for under 4kW from the grid :rotfl: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.0 -
New record day for me today Hawaii +.83.16 x 250w mono 803 Eternity Panels, Aurora 3.6 inverter, owl intuition pv monitoring facing due south in sunny Norfolk.0
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Do you have shading? Due south should have got more than that recently, I'd have thought?3.924kWp (12X327Wp SunPower). SolarEdge SE3500 inverter.
Surrey/SE. 30 degree roof pitch, chimney shading from mid afternoon.0 -
jimmyboy420 wrote: »Do you have shading? Due south should have got more than that recently, I'd have thought?
Or presumably clouds?0 -
Or presumably clouds?
Yes, but given the recent good weather I would have thought that one day would have gotten a very good result recently..?
Maybe it's just cloudier "up north" :cool:3.924kWp (12X327Wp SunPower). SolarEdge SE3500 inverter.
Surrey/SE. 30 degree roof pitch, chimney shading from mid afternoon.0 -
It is, trust me!4kWp, SSE, SolarEdge P300 optimisers & SE3500 Inverter, in occasionally sunny Corby, Northants.
Now with added Sunsynk 5kw hybrid ecco inverter & 15kWh Fogstar batteries. Oh Octopus Energy too.0 -
...nothing but cloud today! Just got home to see I've not even hit 1 O today so far (3.4kWh as it stands)!4kWp system (Feb 2014) : 1.5 SW, 2.5 NE (16x Bisol BMO/250, Aurora Power-One UNO PVI-3.6 Inverter : pvoutput.org/list.jsp?id=299350
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There was some high cloud yesterday which brought me 23.3 kWh. Been up and running since the 11th and have 5 Hawaii days since then, The weather is a bit weird around The Wash, still haven't had completely cloudless day to see what the max is. When it is really cooking with no clouds I am seeing a peak of around 3.66kW being generated. How does that sound?16 x 250w mono 803 Eternity Panels, Aurora 3.6 inverter, owl intuition pv monitoring facing due south in sunny Norfolk.0
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That sounds like you're maxing out the inverter, which should be as good as it gets. Your 4kWp panels are capable of more, particularly in lower temperatures but will be limited by the inverter.reloaded25 wrote: »When it is really cooking with no clouds I am seeing a peak of around 3.66kW being generated. How does that sound?
Edit: having checked the inverter specs, the maximum AC power is given as 4000W, so maybe you can get more.2kWp Solar PV - 10*200W Kioto, SMA Sunny Boy 2000HF, SSE facing, some shading in winter, 37° pitch, installed Jun-2011, inverter replaced Sep-2017 AND Feb-2022.0 -
Another Hawaii today + 0.87 O's:T
3 loads of washing, lunch cooked, dishwasher on, grass cut,
charged everything up + all the normal things we do, for under 4kW from the grid :rotfl:
Another very similar day today......apart from the Hawaii:eek: Only made 0.9 O's:D
Dull the whole day + lots of rain:(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.0
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