Pics of stuff we bought in July thread.

Castiel said:
4kWp means it will produce 4kWh at its peak or nominal efficiency. In practice it means, given my location and other variables it will conservatively produce around 3600kwh a year. The quoted guaranteed minimum is 4066kwh a year, but I am always suspicious of quoted minimums even if they have a guarantee.

It doesn't need battery storage as excess electricity is sold back onto the grid directly. Batteries would be impractical and expensive.

I am averaging around 24kwh a day production at the moment.
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interesting! do you have to keep them really clean or anything?

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24kwh per day is good, in fact for buildings that use a lot of power such as TV studios having panels like that would be a nice investment.

Are they relatively long lasting? I remember having a solar powered battery charger that died after a few years, but I doubt it was in the same league in terms of build quality.

Also I guess I'd better add a pic!

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Only managed to hook 'em up to a battery power amp so far, they sound rather nice though.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
24kwh per day is good, in fact for buildings that use a lot of power such as TV studios having panels like that would be a nice investment.

Are they relatively long lasting? I remember having a solar powered battery charger that died after a few years, but I doubt it was in the same league in terms of build quality.
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I've got a 25 year guarantee on the panels themselves and 10 years on the inverter.
 
groen said:
I don't understand what you mean by 24kw per hour a day.

At any one time how much electricity load can you use on the panels. It should be a number in watts. like 1000-2000watts or something. I think.
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It will produce around 36,000 watts a year.

24kWh means that I didn't pay for any electricity that day and also the supplier has to pay me £14 as well.
 
I am just referring to the load.

For example a 1000watt air conditioning unit uses 1kw an hour. But to run five of those at the same time you will need 5kw system. But you said at the start your system is a 4kw system. So that means that you probably only get around 2000 watts of usable power at any time, but it could do 4000watts in theory. Is that correct?

My household appliances and general electricity usage is around 1000watts +-
 
groen said:
I don't understand what you mean by 24kw per hour a day.

At any one time how much electricity load can you use on the panels. It should be a number in watts. like 1000-2000watts or something. I think. 2400 watts?
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Doesn't work like that but I am sure Castiel will correct me if I am wrong.

The panels generate 24kwh of electric in a day atm and say he uses 12kwh then his net supply to the Grid is 12kwh. If you had lots of things switched on like kettles and ovens etc at the same time it won't matter if at the precise moment the panels aren;t generating enough electric as the extra will be drawn from the grid.

In winter the panels might only generate 2 to 3kwh of electric so you would be a user of electric.

However, it's all averaged out over the year and for every kwh of electrci your panels produce you get paid 43.3p. If you have generated more electric than your house has used you get paid another 4 to 5p per kwh for the difference.
 
Greebo said:
Doesn't work like that but I am sure Castiel will correct me if I am wrong.

The panels generate 24kwh of electric in a day atm and say he uses 12kwh then his net supply to the Grid is 12kwh. If you had lots of things switched on like kettles and ovens etc at the same time it won't matter if at the precise moment the panels aren;t generating enough electric as the extra will be drawn from the grid.

In winter the panels might only generate 2 to 3kwh of electric so you would be a user of electric.

However, it's all averaged out over the year and for every kwh of electrci your panels produce you get paid 43.3p. If you have generated more electric than your house has used you get paid another 4 to 5p per kwh for the difference.
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Exactly.
 
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Actually had the tank for awhile, but bought the rock, sand, macro algae, stock (a firefish and cleaner shrimp & turbo snail cuc) and will be getting a pair of seahorses towards the end of the month:)
 
Castiel said:
a Yamaha RX V2067 AV Receiver.

Now I am in the hunt for a set of speakers and another sub to integrate with the Kef 3005SE for L/R so I can put my Gales back where they belong and still have the 9.2 set-up instead of the 9.1 as it currently is and only using headphones on my PC.
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I have the option of picking up either the Yamaha V2067 or Denon 3312 for the same price. Was wondering what you thought of the Yamaha?
 
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Traxxas Slash VXL. I haven't had it out yet but i'm looking forward to giving it a run. It's a lot bigger than i thought it would be as well!
 
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