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Nice sunny clear sky to start the day......lets see how we go
Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?
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Sunny here but supposed to cloud over later
My generation seems odd now, best seems to be 2 onwards but falls off a cliff around 3 so only a short window
Bring on the "shortest day" so we can start a nice 6 month trend of up
My generation seems odd now, best seems to be 2 onwards but falls off a cliff around 3 so only a short window
Bring on the "shortest day" so we can start a nice 6 month trend of up
Well the guys have been and looked at my system and agree it's degrading and most likely the tigo boxes. Just have to wait for his report to go in and see what their next step is from the manager.
They thought there'd be scaffolding up so they could get up and look at the panels though. Seemed ok guys luckily as I've had enough of the office people already
They thought there'd be scaffolding up so they could get up and look at the panels though. Seemed ok guys luckily as I've had enough of the office people already
How long did you say you had it for?
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Still quite misty here, but "spiked" up to about 500w earlier, currently about 220w.
Was hoping you would say 2013 or something.
I was hoping to get more years than I did.
Do you have tigo too?
I said to matey, I could just have 6 on the shaded but and none on the other string, do less chance of future failure, or I could dump the lot and loose power from one string untill it's fully in the sun.
How to do those calcs.....lol.
I can't be paying an engineer visit each time a tigo fails and I also can't swap everything over to solaredge, which is spose to be much better
Do you have tigo too?
I said to matey, I could just have 6 on the shaded but and none on the other string, do less chance of future failure, or I could dump the lot and loose power from one string untill it's fully in the sun.
How to do those calcs.....lol.
I can't be paying an engineer visit each time a tigo fails and I also can't swap everything over to solaredge, which is spose to be much better
I do not have anything yet, just doing research as I am interested. Yeah, if I ever got it I would go solaredge.
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Be prepared to pay, especially if adding a SolarEdge battery.
My 2015 system is SolarEdge, but my additional system is Victron, still reassuringly expensive though.
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The clouds came along and ruined play again...... 
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The clouds came along and ruined play again......
Same here, peaked at 10:30 which is bad if that happens for me, slow decline from then and around now which should be my peak I am at 40w
Going to be a 1kwh total day if I am lucky
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currently pushing 320w...and a total of 2.5kwhsSame here, peaked at 10:30 which is bad if that happens for me, slow decline from then and around now which should be my peak I am at 40w
Going to be a 1kwh total day if I am lucky
and we got kate pushing 13.2wkh
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There's an infinate loop setup running somehwere.
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She cracked the perpetual invention!
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If they're having to go back up and replace stuff, I would definitely see if you can get some form of monitoring on the Tigo boxes added whilst they're up there, it's very hard to tell if one fails and more importantly where it's failed without that, and scaffold isn't cheap.
I'm not paying anymore, it's up to them now!
I could ask them to install the tigo tap, I'll see what they say. I have mentioned it before and they no longer deal with tigo, so I doubt they'll want to install things like that, if they have to honour a warranty.
I could ask them to install the tigo tap, I'll see what they say. I have mentioned it before and they no longer deal with tigo, so I doubt they'll want to install things like that, if they have to honour a warranty.
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Maybe ask how this situation could be avoided and see what they suggest. If they're fixing without charging you anything then fair enough, it probably doesn't matter much.
Does seem a bit rubbish though for random panels to just stop working after a few years.
The guy today said they remove the tigos and don't put any up, but as I have some shading I'm a bit stuffed.
I could loose them all and put up with the shading losses, not sure how to calc that though or what impact it would have. If it saves ever having to go up on the roof (in 5 years and no labour warranty again, they charge £325 to come out) then maybe that's an idea.
If the strings are laid out as they should be, all the tigos can come off one string, as doesn't suffer from shading and then the other can have some. My inverter is dual MPPT, so I've read this can be done.
I could loose them all and put up with the shading losses, not sure how to calc that though or what impact it would have. If it saves ever having to go up on the roof (in 5 years and no labour warranty again, they charge £325 to come out) then maybe that's an idea.
If the strings are laid out as they should be, all the tigos can come off one string, as doesn't suffer from shading and then the other can have some. My inverter is dual MPPT, so I've read this can be done.