Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

lstar337

tunnel wrote: »

Hi Istar,
Can you tell me whether you are on prepay or credit meter please? I've looked at putting panels on some of my rental properties but there was an issue with prepay meters and panels not working together when the credits ran out. be nice to know if the issue has been fixed or not?

We are on a standard credit meter. Never thought about how it would work with pre-pay tbh, I guess when the credit runs out the connection to the grid is severed so no export and no power for the inverter.

I guess you could switch your properties to credit meters.

lstar337

KevinG wrote: »

It wouldn't make any difference, the reading of the import meter and generation meter are currently two completely separate operations.

Well that is nice and efficient! :T

No doubt the carbon offset of my panels is used up by sending a reader for each meter! :rotfl:

JimLad

5.5 O's yesterday. That's a record for me! (only installed em last week)

old_grouser

Dear All,
I seem to have dropped into a discussion about reliable FIT payments. I can only speak of my own experience. I've been getting payments from British Gas since 2011. My first payment cheque went badly astray - it went into the envelope of another customer (who kindly forwarded it to me!). However, since then they have been very keen to pay up, to the extent that after twelve quarters British Gas are asking for a reading more than five weeks in advance of the quarter's end date, and then paying within a fortnight. I have no idea why they should be so keen to pay up early in my case. I wonder whether others have had the same bizarre experience of being paid early!
Rufus (that's the name of our system) has just had his third birthday, and has repaid 39% of his cost (not counting the free power used). That's a net ROCE of 13% per annum. I wish all my investments had been that good!

Old Grouser

mac2008

Any other energyhive/wattson anywhere users notice the website is down or is it just me? Had to monitor my generation via USB cable! #firstworldproblems

zeupater

legoman62 wrote: »

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My 3.8kWp Invertor reading almost 5kW (4.968)this afternoon:)

Checked in the loft....still got it's socks on:D

Made 4.2 O's or 16kWh today between the showers:cool:

Hi

You didn't by any chance use Sunny Explorer and trigger (inadvertently ... ) an inverter clock time update resulting in an (actual) extended length timeslice between readings which isn't reflected in the dataset ???? ...

HTH
Z

legoman62

zeupater wrote: »

Hi

You didn't by any chance use Sunny Explorer and trigger (inadvertently ... ) an inverter clock time update resulting in an (actual) extended length timeslice between readings which isn't reflected in the dataset ???? ...

HTH
Z

I don't think so.

My PC was turned off at the time.



This is a small portion of the file I checked afterwards:D

4.24 O's today;)

zeupater

legoman62 wrote: »

I don't think so.

My PC was turned off at the time.



This is a small portion of the file I checked afterwards:D

4.24 O's today;)

Hi

I only mentioned it because I've seen it happen on our SB4000TL where correcting the time when generating either increases (doubles up ??) the generation in a time period or results in a very low (or zero) period, depending on the adjustment made ...

Having said that, every so-often the inverter, SunnyExplorer or SunnyBeam throw a small wobbly on their own ... I've just put it down to clock-rounding at the end of a timeslice, but whatever happens seems to self-correct by the start of generation the next day anyway .... on a couple of occasions I've noticed a couple of Wh being reported as generated late at night and have just taken this as being the result of a data self-correction routine as it's a much more plausible explanation than generation from moonlight, starlight or alien interplanetary craft on final-approach ....

Oscargrouch

JimLad wrote: »

5.5 O's yesterday. That's a record for me! (only installed em last week)

Must say that Hawaii's don't come with system age.......:rotfl:

A measly 4.72 O's for I today.........

tunnel

Tuesday - 4.6 O's
Wednesday - just over 4 O's
Not brilliant for this time of year but at least consistent....ish