LOL, you guys are swimming in power. My 10kW array generated about 100Wh today!
December PV starting off crappy again.
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andrew-d
New Member
Only 1.2 kWh here, but I finished clearing snow off most of the panels (about 22 of 26) so hopefully the next few days are better ?
ksmithaz1
Solar / EV Junkie
Phoenix is swell. Almost 63. produced, maybe another 2-3KWh before the day is done. ~40 used, dumped about 10 of that in the Kona. Only one load of laundry today pushed up to about 90% on the 60KWh pack. I will bleed off ~10 more first thing in the morning if the heat doesn't gobble up too much this evening. It will be weaker tomorrow, but should hit 100% SOC with no other loads while we are at work. The cat doesn't need much power thru the day. EV makes it tough to keep the batteries charged. I really only need about 4KW more of PV to clear the hump. 60KWH of Batteries will likely not quite handle it in this summer. But I think I finaly have it tuned for winter. To a point Tim has made, I don't want to have to think about it. Looking at a < $30 electric bill for the first time since I put all this crap in. Solar is practically a no-brainer here if you can swing the cost.
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Balrog006
Solar Enthusiast
At least for my neck of the woods, this coming week looks very promising, 2-4 days are forecast to be clear with the rest mostly clear and no snow.
I think I'm going to add 8kW to my workshop. I never have enough. Might get into mining with gpu's again. I need every Watt possible
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
Forecast here was sunny all day. It wasn't, dark and overcast. So don't count on the weather person.
Went on a 3 hour trip to buy something, came back and Batrium had shut down everything. Checked logs, couldn't find anything, battery was still at 53V. Tripped about an hour after I left, battery was at 38% when I left and still at 38% when I fired everything back up.
My phone went bonkers today too while traveling, just weird stuff all around. Solar flare today?
Forecast here was sunny all day. It wasn't, dark and overcast. So don't count on the weather person.
Went on a 3 hour trip to buy something, came back and Batrium had shut down everything. Checked logs, couldn't find anything, battery was still at 53V. Tripped about an hour after I left, battery was at 38% when I left and still at 38% when I fired everything back up.
My phone went bonkers today too while traveling, just weird stuff all around. Solar flare today?
It's just a glitch in the matrix.
B-Mod
Solar Enthusiast
Was suppose to be full sun here today also in central wi. It was cloudy all day and it snowed over night so I had to clean the panels early, they are ice covered as the snow was wet and then got colder and froze. With 57kw of pv, I only made 16kwh. all day.Forecast here was sunny all day. It wasn't, dark and overcast. So don't count on the weather person.
Went on a 3 hour trip to buy something, came back and Batrium had shut down everything. Checked logs, couldn't find anything, battery was still at 53V. Tripped about an hour after I left, battery was at 38% when I left and still at 38% when I fired everything back up.
My phone went bonkers today too while traveling, just weird stuff all around. Solar flare today?
Nobodybusiness
Solar Sponge.
Dang you have twice as many panels as I do. I thought 30 kW was big.
Look on the bright side (pun not intended)...
We can all(*) start celebrating after Fri, 22 Dec 2023 @ 3:27 am UTC
* By all, I mean all on this thread - apologies to our southern hemisphere members!
PunchySunshine
Solar Enthusiast
I'm counting the seconds!Look on the bright side (pun not intended)...
We can all(*) start celebrating after Fri, 22 Dec 2023 @ 3:27 am UTC
* By all, I mean all on this thread - apologies to our southern hemisphere members!
4 kW array made 8 kWh yesterday. These long shadows of the power poles kill me in December afternoons.
GXMnow
Solar Wizard
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This year, it looks like Nov. was my bad month. My Enphase system only produced 227.4 KWHs for the whole month. That is less than 8 KWHs a day on average. So well under 2 sun hours on my 4,800 watts of panels.
Dec. is looking a little better. We are just 11 days in and the Enphase system has already made 147.7 KWHs in just 11 days. 147.7 / 11 = 13.4 KWHs per day. That is almost 2.8 sun hours each day. And my panels are DIRTY. The rain we did get was not enough to rinse them off. The dust just turned into mud on them. I need it to get a little warmer to climb on the roof with the hose though. Maybe today, they are forecasting 77F (25C) later after noon today. I'm not holding my breath for that
Solar production has just exceeded usage for the last 4 days. Helped by being at work a lot, so consumption has also been down.
Half my panels quit making power early due to my trees with the low sun angle in winter.
Dec. is looking a little better. We are just 11 days in and the Enphase system has already made 147.7 KWHs in just 11 days. 147.7 / 11 = 13.4 KWHs per day. That is almost 2.8 sun hours each day. And my panels are DIRTY. The rain we did get was not enough to rinse them off. The dust just turned into mud on them. I need it to get a little warmer to climb on the roof with the hose though. Maybe today, they are forecasting 77F (25C) later after noon today. I'm not holding my breath for that
Solar production has just exceeded usage for the last 4 days. Helped by being at work a lot, so consumption has also been down.
Half my panels quit making power early due to my trees with the low sun angle in winter.
Eber
Student of MacGyver
Thats it, I need to build some kind of steam generation system for when the zombie apocalypse hits and you cannot get fuel anymore except for wood.
No sun for 2 days here, 1 day of sun in 2 weeks aint cutting it.
Forecast shows 4 days of sun coming up finally.
No sun for 2 days here, 1 day of sun in 2 weeks aint cutting it.
Forecast shows 4 days of sun coming up finally.
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Do it.
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
We drove over to Black River Falls to get a log splitter, roads good until the last 25 miles. Pure ice. At home it snowed but roads were dry. Any fixed ground mount here was still covered with snow but my 65 degree tilted array was perfectly clean.
OPTIMALSOLAR
New Member
I been sent to spread the message....God bless Texas................502, 12 kw
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