Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

[gpuerrilla]

Well if Ron-ski produces the league tables, we'll be able to be much more precise in our locations!

Hope the next patch fixes this.

Overall @Freefaller has produced the most, and @gpuerrilla has produced the least, and is in the least sunny spot.

Sadly I kind of knew I had the dankest of geo-locations! Happy 1st December solarphiles!

 

[Ron-ski]

Hope the next patch fixes this.

I can add peoples locations if they want me to, just reply with where you'd like your location specified.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I think some may not want that so lets see what we can come up with.

 

[Ron-ski]

@gpuerrilla Thats why I thought it best not to add the location to the chart. I like your new location

December has started off with a dark wet morning, and the first sun symbol on the weather forecast is for the 13, but it also has snow & rain showers

 

[gpuerrilla]

December has started off with a dark wet morning, and the first sun symbol on the weather forecast is for the 13, but it also has snow & rain showers

Wow that's a hefty period of no vitamin D. Gonna change into me ritual gear a lot this month I can guess.

 

[john_smith]

the last 2 decembers for me have been opposite the previous Novembers.

86 in 21 and 150 in 20.

So only 15kWh units different when comparing the same 2 months

 

[Freefaller]

4 of my panels get shading from 130pm and from 3pm onwards get nothing really at this time of the year. Very interesting to see the kW per panel it's surprisingly not far off my calculations when I specified the system. From March onwards the shading will delay significantly as the sun will be higher.

I have a stepped roof so 4 of those panels are on the lower step.

Our house does stick out now as we're the only ones with panels that you can see from the street!

Very curious to see what the spring/summer brings!

 

[The Angry Welshman]

its 8:38 clear blue skies and already producing 0.750kwh of solar and exporting 0.400kwh of that

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

At least I will be able to join next month, although this Solax combining battery and generation into one number means I will have to data dump to filter them

 

[Ron-ski]

The Three Zero's

 

[Ron-ski]

although this Solax combining battery and generation into one number means I will have to data dump to filter them

Surely there must be a way to view just solar production on its own.

 

[Troop]

I can add peoples locations if they want me to, just reply with where you'd like your location specified.

Latitude would work no location just your degree North position, I'm at 52° 26' 19.5252'' N

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Surely there must be a way to view just solar production on its own.

I cant find one, tried everything I can try but always seems to combine, apart from raw data
I'm going to email their support but it looks like they are combined and thats their logic annoyingly (they call it yield)

 

[OldKitMan]

@Ron-ski feel free to add me to the bottom of the list for Nov - 51 kWh generated from a 4.92 kWp array. Low sun level means that trees are impacting on my production at this time of year, not sure it will be cost effective though to cut them down though, still on target to exceed the estimated production over the year though provided by the installer and we knew the winter months would be bad due to the trees.

 

[katie279]

@Ron-ski technically I think I've got 7.38 just in case anyone sneaks up on me...

It might be good to have panel direction too (ie south facing, east etc)

 

[Ron-ski]

@Ron-ski feel free to add me to the bottom of the list for Nov - 51 kWh generated from a 4.92 kWp array.

@gpuerrilla will be happy, he's not last now.

@Ron-ski technically I think I've got 7.38 just in case anyone sneaks up on me...

It might be good to have panel direction too (ie south facing, east etc)

I've adjusted your array size. I think adding panel direction will just get a bit messy, lots of people have them facing two or three different directions.

 

[SoliD]

6.2, not 8.2!

 

[Ron-ski]

 

[Freefaller]

@Ron-ski technically I think I've got 7.38 just in case anyone sneaks up on me...

It might be good to have panel direction too (ie south facing, east etc)

Good idea. I've added mine and roof pitch.

 

[Freefaller]

I know this is a stretch too far, but is there a carbon calculator we could add? As a small group I reckon that could be quite impactful to see the carbon reduction/offsetting we could be doing?