Solar panel production figures

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 26 Jul 2023 at 20:43

Thought today was going to be great
Was proper sunny at lunchtime, then slowly got worse and worse throughout afternoon
Ended up on 18.6 which means month is 476.7, 69 needed for forecast so under 14 per day needed
Should be ok, april was 505.7 so its in sight

Welshman · 26 Jul 2023 at 20:44

We currently have a monthly average of 294kwhs…..to reach system target of 3.2mwh for the year, we need an average of 266, so we well in front of that for now. But we still have oct, nov, dec to come

alphaomega16 · 26 Jul 2023 at 21:10

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Thought today was going to be great
Was proper sunny at lunchtime, then slowly got worse and worse throughout afternoon
Ended up on 18.6 which means month is 476.7, 69 needed for forecast so under 14 per day needed
Should be ok, april was 505.7 so its in sight

yeah sun tanked for me early as well

Ron-ski · 26 Jul 2023 at 21:17

Freefaller said:
Weirdly I think July is going to produce less than not only June but also May!

I did say May was usually the best month a while back.

alphaomega16 said:
You would think with how much this stuff costs there would be some kind of internal storage for readings to send off.

Victron does, and you can even add an SD card to expand the storage, but then Victron is a whole more expensive.

PS Currently averaging 36.1 a day for the month, well down.

Welshman · 26 Jul 2023 at 21:24

Ron-ski said:
I did say May was usually the best month a while back.

Victron does, and you can even add an SD card to expand the storage, but then Victron is a whole more expensive.

PS Currently averaging 36.1 a day for the month, well down.

Thats way better than my 10.54 for the day lol

Ron-ski · 26 Jul 2023 at 21:24

Welshman said:
Thats way better than my 10.54 for the day lol

I am in Kent

Welshman · 26 Jul 2023 at 21:25

Ron-ski said:
I am in Kent

This is true…..im moving there when i retire in 8yrs time lol

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 26 Jul 2023 at 22:13

Welsh solar fairies out at the mo, cleaning them (ie raining!)

gpuerrilla · 26 Jul 2023 at 22:33

Welshman said:
This is true…..im moving there when i retire in 8yrs time lol

Every time I watch a forecast they seem to avoid the cloud. After a while its not even funny! :cry:

alphaomega16 · 27 Jul 2023 at 00:27

gpuerrilla said:
Every time I watch a forecast they seem to avoid the cloud. After a while its not even funny!

I need their voodoo

gpuerrilla · 27 Jul 2023 at 08:32

Can't wait for the official reveal its been wettest and coolest July..

Freefaller · 27 Jul 2023 at 09:39

Dank and overcast today. Happy summer all!

Ron-ski · 27 Jul 2023 at 10:03

gpuerrilla said:
Can't wait for the official reveal its been wettest and coolest July..

Looks much the same going into August, even for Kent.

SoliD · 27 Jul 2023 at 11:05

gpuerrilla said:
Can't wait for the official reveal its been wettest and coolest July..

But climate change.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 27 Jul 2023 at 11:11

Just about managing to balance my usage to generation from mid morning.

Battery dropped to 85% low and managed to get back to 86%
Can see the real benefit of batteries however when the generation wave keeps going above or below the usage wave.
The battery power wave (net in / out to battery) is up and down either side of 0.

alphaomega16 · 27 Jul 2023 at 12:31

Such a miserable day today, 2.8 yield from the solar so far

reef · 27 Jul 2023 at 12:55

SoliD said:
But climate change.

The same crap weather, just 1-2 degrees warmer than it used to be!

6.2kWh so far here today. This month has been rubbish!

HungryHippos · 27 Jul 2023 at 12:57

I'd take 6 kWh I'm sat at 2 so far!

Welshman · 27 Jul 2023 at 13:38

we have had sporadic bursts of sunshine, we may get to double figures. But i need that for the next 4 days just to beat april. Start of august not looking good either

alphaomega16 · 27 Jul 2023 at 14:18

Welshman said:
we have had sporadic bursts of sunshine, we may get to double figures. But i need that for the next 4 days just to beat april. Start of august not looking good either

Good luck

Currently at 3.5 here, I am just happy if I can get to at least 80% battery filled per day as that means it will last overnight, I am still on EON waiting for handover documentation from installer. Debating whether to just switch over to octopus now then just wait it out for the handover package stuff.

Edit
For those with batteries and history does your overnight idle battery and load powers match or come close?

For those with no batteries does your grid+load power match or come close?

Really don't understand why idle consumption has gone up by nearly 100w my end and cant find any images on google for comparions.

Edit 2
Nevermind on that, finally got an reply to email I sent off through that the extra consumption is from the AIO/Gateway but it is excluded from the load for some reason, I asked them for specific info on each unit and for it to be added to teh datasheet.