Solar panel production figures

[Ron-ski]

Posting so early. I'm still generating (11w )

Mine started at 6:45 and stopped generating at 17:35.

So your mahooooosive system, is only a little bit more efficient than my little one lol

But it produces so much more power and that is what @katie279 says is most important

The garage system was never going to be the best at producing power, panels are east & west orientation, pitch of 10 degrees, shading issues, but it all helps.

 

[Ron-ski]

17.94kWh total today, battery only got to 78%

 

[Ron-ski]

Battery full, 17kWh so far and a peak of 7.43kW, this afternoon looking more cloudy, although hasn't been a great morning either.

Be interesting what it does on a perfect solar day

 

[Ron-ski]

seems that your new system is on fire (not literally, at least I hope!).

I hope not as well, 22kWh so far, still generating 714w.

 

[Ron-ski]

Today's generation was 22.63kWh, Battery fully charged and 3kW exported. @katie279 is quiet lately might as well make the most of it before she gets all them extra panels installed

When are you going to add it to pvout? We need your scores to boost the OcUK team!

Seriously though you must be so chuffed that your hard work has paid off so well.

I'm very pleased, still needs some fine tuning on the settings relating to charging/discharging the battery, but its getting there. Very pleased with the generation, should be well over producing come the summer, just hope I can get on to Flux

As for PV Output, I'm working on it, I set up Home Assistant yesterday, then thought I really should be able to do this on the Victron Cerbo, Goolged and found this thread, I had seen this a couple of weeks ago, but someone has updated it with something I can hopefully get working.

Potentially ordering the cells for the second battery tomorrow, but delivery won't be until late April.

 

[Ron-ski]

I've had the following actual generation for March from a 4kw system, have got figures going back to 2016 but the app doesn't show them.

2019 334 kWh
2020 430 kWh
2021 360 kWh
2022 390 kWh

 

[Ron-ski]

9.5kWh today, battery got to about 41%, but was flat by 19:00

258kWh for the month

 

[Ron-ski]

11.17kWh today, tomorrow is looking much better, but I'm probably going to have to force charge the battery a bit just in case they turn up early to change the smart meters.

 

[Ron-ski]

I had to put some charge in my cells this morning, as the smart meters were being changed between 8 and 12 and didn't want to risk then arriving early and the batteries being flat,they arrived at 9:15 and it only took 10 minutes so would have been fine, especially with the amount of solar coming in.

It's a bit cloudy, but hopefully it will start generally sunny.

 

[Ron-ski]

Battery fully charged by 12:10 although I did add a little to it this morning, took it from 12% to 25%.

19kWh generated so far, if my programming is correct my generation prediction is 30 for the day, still quite cloudy.

 

[Ron-ski]

Yay, finally overtaken @Freefaller

But not me, currently at 27kWh and still generating 1.8kW

 

[Ron-ski]

15.85kWh from the SolarEdge system
7kWh from the east garage panels
5.53kWh from the west garage panels

Total: 28.38kWh
Tomorrows Prediction: 17.1kWh

Those of you automatically sending data to PV Output, what value do you send every 5 minutes, is it the days total generation in watt hours?

 

[Ron-ski]

@branddaly Thanks, I'm getting there, have actually managed to upload todays garage generation.

 

[Ron-ski]

@Ron-ski I see a new challenger has entered the ring

Ronski's Combined Systems 8.740kW

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I've now got Node Red running on the Victron Cerbo GX and uploading data directly to PV Output, only issue is that I haven't worked out how to get the daily yield for the SolarEdge inverter, this value appears to be missing. So for now I have three systems on PV Output, the original SolarEdge system, the Victron system and the combined system which takes it's data from the other two and combines it.

All appears to be working as hoped,

 

[Ron-ski]

Not quite as good as yesterday, but up 14kWh, and battery which also made it through the night is up to 85%.

 

[Ron-ski]

Just ignore how much they cost in the first place for maximum happiness.

That's exactly what I'm doing

 

[Ron-ski]

Surely Ron-ski will argue it's only the efficiency of individual systems that counts and combining them doesn't count..........???????

What are you on about it's the raw numbers that count

Battery is full, 20 kWh generated and now exporting.

 

[Ron-ski]

It must be sunny in Ramsgate - here it's grey and dull.

Quite cloudy at times where I work eight miles from home, graph is very spiky so guess it was at home as well.

Yeah. I'm glad I did it (given it was paid for by a premium bond win it was a no brainer). But I found the whole process quite stressful (and still am, waiting for them to remove the scaffold) and would like some sun to make myself feel better

My typical daily use is around 8kwh, so it is doing ok!

Edit: Ronski are you in Ramsgate? Used to visit down there as a kid a lot as my Nan lived in Broadstairs. A long time ago now though!

Nice on the bonds, we get something most months. But most I've ever had is £1k. I'm in Broadstairs.

They'll remove the scaffolding when they are quiet, which is not often or when they need it on another job, always been the way.

 

[Ron-ski]

21.37kWh today.

 

[Ron-ski]

Something weird going on with PV Output today, it seems to think I've generated 5.4kWh already

Seems to be my Victron system, although it is uploading 1250wH, PV Output shows 4610wH since 5:05 this morning

I've manually edited, see what happens now.