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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,990 Forumite
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    Terrible day here today:(

    Rain, hail, sleet and a bitterly cold wind = 1.67 O's:eek:

    Roll on summer:)
    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.
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    Hi All

    Clouds on & off most of the day here too but late afternoon was clear, which suits our system .... best day since second week of September ....

    HTH
    Z
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • tunnel
    tunnel Posts: 2,601 Forumite
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    Well it certainly persisted it down at work so wasn't expecting much when I got home so was pleasantly surprised with 2.75 combined O's.
    Like Mart, my less than perfect WNW is starting to come good(hooray)
    2 kWp SEbE , 2kWp SSW & 2.5kWp NWbW.....in sunny North Derbyshire17.7kWh Givenergy battery added(for the power hungry kids)
  • countryman_2
    countryman_2 Posts: 421 Forumite
    legoman62 wrote: »
    Terrible day here today:(

    Rain, hail, sleet and a bitterly cold wind = 1.67 O's:eek:

    Roll on summer:)


    We had some of that here too and certainly the bitter cold wind but the sun did keep on peeking out from behind the clouds to bring in 2.68 O's today.
    4kw PV fitted 4th July 2014 (Green Energy NW £5600). WSW facing, 30 deg Pitch, Unshaded, Samil Solar River inverter, 16 Solar World Mono panels, Iboost on Immersion Heater. located in mid Lincolnshire.
  • 1961Nick
    1961Nick Posts: 2,107 Forumite
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    legoman62 wrote: »
    Terrible day here today:(

    Rain, hail, sleet and a bitterly cold wind = 1.67 O's:eek:

    Roll on summer:)

    The difference being that the 'Rain, hail, sleet and a bitterly cold wind' are a bit warmer?:D
    4kWp (black/black) - Sofar Inverter - SSE(141°) - 30° pitch - North Lincs
    Installed June 2013 - PVGIS = 3400
    Sofar ME3000SP Inverter & 5 x Pylontech US2000B Plus & 3 x US2000C Batteries - 19.2kWh
  • theboylard
    theboylard Posts: 1,211 Forumite
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    2.72 ho's here in confused Corby! Over on A6 north of Market Harborough, blazing sunshine - panels doing diddly!
    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.
  • groovyf
    groovyf Posts: 286 Forumite
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    What is you set up Groovy ? ...:)

    All accessible electricity cables are outside in a wall-mounted meter cabinet, so no electric point available, (therefore batteries required) and there's an outside storage space (in which lies the inverter) between the cab and my consumer unit. It's a relatively new build (2001) so all cables are recessed an inaccessible.
    Henley block was added to outside cab for solar/grid/consumer unit connectivity (and as such, no need for Wattson Easifit).
    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=29935
  • KevinG
    KevinG Posts: 2,088 Forumite
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    3.84 Os, getting better :)
    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.
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    edited 2 March 2015 at 10:38PM
    groovyf wrote: »
    It's a relatively new build (2001) so all cables are recessed an inaccessible.
    Henley block was added to outside cab for solar/grid/consumer unit connectivity (and as such, no need for Wattson Easifit).

    I will PM you on Wednesday, all cables are accessible within the CU; mine was built roughly same time.....just hold the phone....coffee.gif

    Edit: Got to work the morrow, hence Wednesday...:eek:
    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: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • Andy_WSM
    Andy_WSM Posts: 2,217 Forumite
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    Would you purchase a replacement if you lost yours?

    No, I could live without it now.

    I have an online log in for the inverter and can easily read the incoming meter once a week / month. The energyhive dashboard is good, but with data that's out by several kWh somedays, pointless as anything more than an indication.
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