Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

EricMears

Martyn1981 wrote: »

I was listening to Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show on 3/12/14, and he was having a right fit about it still being called the Autumn statement when we were in winter. He repeated his complaint about 5 times. I was waiting throughout the piece for somebody to tap him on the shoulder or scribble a quick note and say "Psst Jezza, it is still the Autumn!".

Mart.

If it was the third of December then he was absolutely correct to call it "winter". Not so sure it was worth telling folk that 5 times though

Waywardmike

Another pretty good month for Feb... 227.27kWh...

This puts me at 116% of PVGIS for the month so happy days...

Will be interesting to see how the averages over the years pan out as it's consistently performing better than expected.

Martyn1981

EricMears wrote: »

If it was the third of December then he was absolutely correct to call it "winter". Not so sure it was worth telling folk that 5 times though

Eric, you wouldn't happen to be a weatherman would you? Perhaps we can lock you in a room with an astronomer/scientist and see who previals.

Generation here is still good, not perfect, but solid day. I probably still won't top the O chart, but hopefully lots of k's W's and h's in the bag.

Mart.

EricMears

Martyn1981 wrote: »

Eric, you wouldn't happen to be a weatherman would you? Perhaps we can lock you in a room with an astronomer/scientist and see who previals.

Absolutely not !

A simple knowledge of O level geography is all it takes to know what season it ought to be on any particular date.

mac2008

Not posted in months but just noticed I've broken 10kWh at just after 3pm today. Not bad!

http://wattson.energyhive.com/dashboard/macsenergy

Sterlingtimes

mac2008 wrote: »

Not posted in months but just noticed I've broken 10kWh at just after 3pm today. Not bad!

http://wattson.energyhive.com/dashboard/macsenergy

Mac, did you buy the £29.99 box from Energyhive? Did you need anything other than the Wattson and the Energyhive box to display the online dashboard?

mac2008

Sterlingtimes wrote: »

Mac, did you buy the £29.99 box from Energyhive? Did you need anything other than the Wattson and the Energyhive box to display the online dashboard?

Yes, and no additional hardware other than wattson required. Little box plugs into network port on router and off you go. Don't have to make data public if you don't want to either. very reliable apart from the 40W registered overnight which my wattson display doesn't register.

Merlin139

3.51 O's (13.95 kWh) in a very hit and miss day. More spikes on the graph than a hedgehog! Stiil its above average required so cannot complain.

groovyf

Clearly everyone's Wattson transmitters are more reliable than mine! I had a replacement sent out, and just today it's gone the way of the other one... errant reading of an extra 300W or so usage. Unplug the cable from unit and it still thinks I'm using 300W.
Maybe it simply doesn't like being powered by batteries outside in the meter wall cupboard.

Am asking for a refund on it, which means I'll have a Wattson Anywhere to sell.

(or maybe I'll just set the dashboard to "Generation only" and live with it, as I know what my appliances draw, and at least I can check the solar generation online - which was my main reason for purchase).

Andy_WSM

Merlin139 wrote: »

3.51 O's (13.95 kWh) in a very hit and miss day. More spikes on the graph than a hedgehog! Stiil its above average required so cannot complain.

Same score here. We've had sleet, snow, hail and even a period of near darkness around 11am as a thunderstorm passed over.

Still managed the best day of 2015 though :T

4.19 O's (16.41 kWh)