OK, who sent these round???
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Solar panel production figures
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We had noticed an increased amount of squirrels recently, best they stay away from my solar cables.
I bet I can guess who the ring leader is 
PS. Just about to nudge past 40kWh today
PS. Just about to nudge past 40kWh today
40.05kWh generated, 30 exported, which brings the month to 510kWh generated and 283 exported so far.
Solar Forecast is predicting better for tomorrow, and Tuesday, but the weather is not as good either day, today it predicted 25 kWh
Solar Forecast is predicting better for tomorrow, and Tuesday, but the weather is not as good either day, today it predicted 25 kWh
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Now that looks like they could do some actual damage, guess someone needs to put a fence around their array.
You might as well cancel the goats, the clouds are doing a good job of blocking the sun
@bigmike20vt as others have said, you need an intermediary device.
Pretty bad day down here, just 15.3kWh generated and 10 exported, not sure today will be a negative Flux day.
When I looked on the cloud radar today, there was a big band of cloud over the very south east of Kent, then a wide gap (hence @Freefaller brilliant result), then cloud again, the gap seemed to stay roughly where it was.
When I looked on the cloud radar today, there was a big band of cloud over the very south east of Kent, then a wide gap (hence @Freefaller brilliant result), then cloud again, the gap seemed to stay roughly where it was.
Mine produced so little yesterday that we actually had to pay 57p for electric, mind you the week is still negative, and today will be negative
25.85kWh for the day, circa 21 to the grid.
I'm at 552kWh for the month, was hoping to hit 1000, but that is not going to happen, the weather forecast for the rest of the month looks mostly wet.
Something took a big bite out of my solar production this morning, otherwise it would have been a record breaking day.
And here's the culprit, it moved from the east to the west, you can see above at 7:49 production dropped, and then at around 10:30 it shot up. The cloud edge peak doesn't look too high above, but when I zoom in it shows a peak of 7.6kW, and my own monitoring shows today's highest peak at 8kW.
I'm at the very southeast tip of Kent, right in the middle of that splodge of clouds.
Today's figures.
Generation: 41.28kWh
Export: 37kWh
And here's the culprit, it moved from the east to the west, you can see above at 7:49 production dropped, and then at around 10:30 it shot up. The cloud edge peak doesn't look too high above, but when I zoom in it shows a peak of 7.6kW, and my own monitoring shows today's highest peak at 8kW.
I'm at the very southeast tip of Kent, right in the middle of that splodge of clouds.
Today's figures.
Generation: 41.28kWh
Export: 37kWh
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@katie279 new record today?
I don't know. But they've arrived here as well, rain included.
Hopefully it was the ones on the panels.
Basically yes, but if you suffer with lime scale then not a good idea to use tap water apparently.
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Been a bit of a grotty day down here, it really dropped of after 1pm.
Still generated 26.72kWh and exported around 22kWh.
Still generated 26.72kWh and exported around 22kWh.
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It's a typo, should be 22, thanks. Although I could in theory export more than generated as I always charge the battery overnight.
Currently 14.5kWh, with another 14.5kWh inbound hopefully next week. Link to build thread in my signature.
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Yes, it's been terrible morning, but I'm sat just a mile or so from you and it has just got a lot brighter.
@hooj That must be quite an old system given that you're getting 60p per kWh. You've also shown the worst six months of the year, between now and September you'll earn very nicely out of it. There are two parts to FITS payments, the 60p which is paid for every single kWh you generate, and the export payment, the 4.25p. You are on 50% deemed export. If you move to an Octopus export tariff you will still get the 60p generation payments, but the deemed export payments will be replaced by metered export payments paid at whatever rate the tariff pays.
You probably want to consider getting an AC connected battery - fur further info look at this thread.
You probably want to consider getting an AC connected battery - fur further info look at this thread.
Ours has picked up since 10am when it got brighter, currently ticking along at 6 - 7kW.
Mine finally got back to 100% by mid-day, although they did get charged to 93% by 5am, then dropped to 76% by 9am and then slowly started charging.Already exported 15kWh.
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