It's too hot :(

SDK^ said:
It literally is free energy now, for 8 months of the year.
The monthly cost to finance the panels and battery is the roughly the same as the savings on my energy bill.
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Whats the lifespan of the battery setup you have? Happy to provide a quote to change them, eventually I'll have enough direct debits coming in from battery swaps that I'll have free energy with no initall outlay ;)
 
I built an offgrid solar system, spent about 4k, stuck it in a shed.

x40 leisure batteries
x14 340watt panels (to be increased to x17 soon)
x2 mppt controllers
3kw inverter

I have it running pretty much everything in the house, TV, Washing Machine, Dryer, Fridge Freezer, x3 PC's. In this weather the batteries are charged by 9am and it runs all day and night for anything I throw at it.

If it does go below 11.3V under load it flicks over to mains without interrupting anything with the switch over box I bought.

Does the job, saves me a small fortune



This is from now, obviously no amps, the suns almost gone :)
 
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Not really, I think it's perfectly valid to say you invest X to get Y for free. You can argue around the worth of it and if X was too much, but Y is still free.
 
Room temp hasnt really changed much since my last post but the feel like temp has been much more pleasant the past few days somehow, not much wind so its kinda weird, but I will take it. Still sunny, not cold but just not that unpleasant.
 
Came back yesterday from Madrid (33c in shade daily, full sun).

During the day I did struggled in the full sun at 33 (its not the beach!) but the evenings were amazing. Shorts all the time. Even at midnight.
I'd much rather that than UKs 95 percent cold evenings.

We get very very few warm evenings. Even in height of summer.
 
413x said:
Came back yesterday from Madrid (33c in shade daily, full sun).

During the day I did struggled in the full sun at 33 (its not the beach!) but the evenings were amazing. Shorts all the time. Even at midnight.
I'd much rather that than UKs 95 percent cold evenings.

We get very very few warm evenings. Even in height of summer.
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I know we are all different, I'm a bit of a rarity as I hate warm evenings, if its hot when I go to bed I simply don't sleep much and itch, next day I'm a major grump bag, too be fair these days I think we get a lot of warm evenings in summer, past few weeks with us its not got much under 15c going to bed, I consider this a hot night, most people are ok with hot and humid nights I know, I really don't know how people sleep in hot countries, I guess I must be warm blooded or something as I love winter weather the most, well not minus but around 6c for sleeping is perfect for me.
 
Chillr said:
I know we are all different, I'm a bit of a rarity as I hate warm evenings, if its hot when I go to bed I simply don't sleep much and itch, next day I'm a major grump bag, too be fair these days I think we get a lot of warm evenings in summer, past few weeks with us its not got much under 15c going to bed, I consider this a hot night, most people are ok with hot and humid nights I know, I really don't know how people sleep in hot countries, I guess I must be warm blooded or something as I love winter weather the most, well not minus but around 6c for sleeping is perfect for me.
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I'm the opposite. Ill sacrifice the day being over hot for the evenings to be comfy hot. Generally if the peak daily temp is 25-30 that's ideal. By time it gets to evening its just right. Anything towards 15c I don't like (except biking)
 
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