Solar panel production figures

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Wishing for rain here, we had a smidge again yesterday, none of these thunderstorms people complaining about :)

EA is driest part of UK

Tomorrow could be when we finally see some rain
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We’ve had bits of rain up here, but nothing like i have seen on the news in other places. There is a rumour, that we may get a few tickles from the clouds overnight…..

i mean Kent is already getting hosepipe bans and we not even into month two of summer yet.
 
Finally i can agree that the welsh weather hath arrived......gardens had a real good soaking, panels nice and clean. Dont think we will get double figures today, but i am always surprised with solar.

Cymru am Byth.
 
wow, just got drenched doing school drop off!.... on the bright side this will give the panels a proper wash, and we do need the rain.

on the flip side however, could this be the 1st day since some time in early March that my panels do not even cover our battery use. hopefully wont run the battery flat before 7pm at least, that would be a disaster (Flux pricing) but right now i am getting 7watts from my panels!. battery at 76%.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
wow, just got drenched doing school drop off!.... on the bright side this will give the panels a proper wash, and we do need the rain.

on the flip side however, could this be the 1st day since some time in early March that my panels do not even cover our battery use. hopefully wont run the battery flat before 7pm at least, that would be a disaster (Flux pricing) but right now i am getting 7watts from my panels!. battery at 76%.
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If it carries on can you stop discharge so you deffo get over the 4-7pm hump or were you the one who access to batteries was an issue for?

With my failure to put the DW on last night (doh!) I think I may end up using a few peak units today. Battery is 85% but once I put the DW on I nick around 1.5kwh of the approx 7.5 that means I have stored.
 
i used to have access issues however i got onto solis and they gave me admin access to my system so i can now control my inverter using my phone.

unfortunately there is no easy "stop charging for x time or force charging for x time" button without changing my entire schedule - i actually contacted their support about this but the ticket was closed. seems a no brainer to me.

if it looks like my battery wont hold out till 7pm i guess i will just flick the trip switch on the system for a few hrs. (i assume this wont do any harm?) come winter i will be on intelligent octopus so wont matter then,

if this rain keeps up there will be flash floods, if there are not already. our town has already been proper flooded twice in the last 20 years. thankfully i live half way up a hill so the water runs on past me.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
i used to have access issues however i got onto solis and they gave me admin access to my system so i can now control my inverter using my phone.

unfortunately there is no easy "stop charging for x time or force charging for x time" button without changing my entire schedule - i actually contacted their support about this but the ticket was closed. seems a no brainer to me.

if it looks like my battery wont hold out till 7pm i guess i will just flick the trip switch on the system for a few hrs. (i assume this wont do any harm?) come winter i will be on intelligent octopus so wont matter then,

if this rain keeps up there will be flash floods, if there are not already. our town has already been proper flooded twice in the last 20 years. thankfully i live half way up a hill so the water runs on past me.
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Whilst solax is generally pretty poor on the options for me (well it doesn't make it easy to do the flux integration for example)
It is pretty good on battery control. I can set two schedules per day on when it is allowed to charge and discharge.
Which sounds perfect for Flux right, until I say I cannot easily control the charge and discharge rates, all I can set is min and max battery SOC.

Pulling in 100-200w atm. Its still raining, there will be some glorious spikes if the sun gets to stick its head out at times.
 
Welshman said:
it stopped here around an hour ago, pulling 2.7kws now......
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nice, slowing down here and up to 300w but as I am East facing I am looking for the breaks in the rain from 2pm

I need around 10kwh a day from panels to be no peak units so its actually quite possible even with rain
panels cool and wet would means spikes over 6kw in full sun
 
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