Solar panel production figures

I charged from the grid 6kWh today into 20kWh of batteries that were 80% at midnight so filled to 100% in spite of the washing machine by 5am. So with a bit of sun I was exporting by 11am and even though the bottom fell out of the sunshine by 2.30pm I managed to drip feed the export until 5.30pm.
So 15kWh generation and 8kWh exported meant no cost for the day inc vat ;)
 
reef said:
10.1kWh generated and 2.3kWh exported.

Debating whether to charge the battery as tomorrow looks cloudy.
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Looking pretty bleak here as well, going to do a charge but I wont get much, this is where my SOC is atm, I am expecting it to tank before the flux period if the cloud blocks too much sun tomorrow.

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Its a 13.5kw battery but ive had it put 14.7 adn even 15.7 charge into the batteries during a flux period but apparently 1.5kwh is now over half capacity and SOC will stop it ever reaching full, During summer time ill just let it run of sun and keep going empty to full, empty to full rinse and repeat.

1.5kwh usage entry for 24th was entered 5 minutes ago.

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To those with home assistant addon and a Givenergy system does your portal info lose transparency?

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The only thing that was a solid color was battery usage and grid voltage, not even grid power draws were solid color like they should be, only time ive seen this was on the 24 hour run of home assistant.
 
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Looks like im going to end up at around 12 for the day with 4.6 exported, not too bad, sun didn't come out til REALLY late from behind clouds but even then there was a lot of clipping of smaller clouds

Apparently though 98% SOC = 6.5kwh today, looks like im on track for my state of charge tanking at 60-65% every week, it just builds up and up and up til it reaches breaking point because state of charge never allows it to be fully charged, how in this day and age is this technology this bad?

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Welshman said:
Poor today with only 3.7kwhs

looking at all the people with battery issues, im glad i opted for string inverter only…..
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mine is a string inverter that plugs into the AIO which is inverter+battery since it has its own charge/discharge rate of 6kwh.

tbh we probably coulda done without the battery, the export during summer woulda funded us through winter but the option to charge on the cheap overnight was nice, just wish I didnt have to do the math day to day with charge/discharge amounts to plan when to make the state of charge crash outside of flux peak period.
 
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alphaomega16 said:
mine is a string inverter that plugs into the AIO which is inverter+battery since it has its own charge/discharge rate of 6kwh.

tbh we probably coulda done without the battery, the export during summer woulda funded us through winter but the option to charge on the cheap overnight was nice, just wish I didnt have to do the math day to day with charge/discharge amounts to plan when to make the state of charge crash outside of flux peak period.
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So you got an inverter, plugged into another inverter??? Seems an odd way to do things…….
 
Ron-ski said:
I charge mine every morning, even in the summer months, keeps it nice and simple then.
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I don't have enough panels to compensate for the Autumn morning charge costs. Today I grid imported 4.5kW and generated 11.5kWh but only exported 4.5kWh so didn't cover the costs of import and standing charges. This will just get worse as winter comes, this I accept is how it will be until spring, but I still cant justify grid charging on a daily basis in spring and summer. Had I got another 8kWh of panels the situation would be different no doubt ;)
 
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