Daily pv production

6.1 kWp, but also I have a great orientation (directly south) and no shadow what so ever at any time of the day. I am also in a fairly exposed open site so I get the full path of the sun.

No its fixed at 40 deg off the vertical, that stretch in the graph is to do with some bug in the Solis inverter or data logger. Here is today's graph

better than my 0kWh!

no panels obv.

24.1 kWh, 23.5kwh and 16kwh for last three days is far from what the start of the month provided so month is ending well. If only December is as successful I would be delighted!

Welcome LimerickCity. Know it well, grew up on the Ennis road myself!

So it's hard to say if your production is right or not as it depends on a number of factors, such as orientation of your panels to the sun, how bright a day it is in Lmk etc. In general though, you typically only get about 10% if it's a cloudy day. Right now in Dublin it's overcast here and I'm seeing.

Current production of a whopping 39 watts. This is on a system which is nearly twice as large as your (5.3Kwp) Really, this time of the year with the sun very low on the southern horizon anything which isn't due south facing really struggles to generate much power.

Its setting up to break my previous worst day of 1.2Kwhr generated. 😓

Ha! Grew up across the road from you in Highfield - small world.

Well you came to the right place in terms of advice. However, the sad reality is that from late Oct -> early March, unless you have a big array facing directly due south, you are not going to generate enough power to really matter much with what you do with the washing machine, dish washer during the day.

In fact, the smartest thing you can do if you haven't done it already it try and get yourself onto a day/night tariff with your electricity provider. This is key with solar installations. For obvious reasons the solar panels work during the day, so for 7-8 months a year you've got your day time usage covered, so you want to pay as cheap as you can for nighttime. And of course if you are on a night rate, you will run your washing machine etc at 11pm onwards at cheap rate.

Only a paltry 1.4 KwHr myself here in Dublin. Disadvantage of an East/West split in the winter time is that with the sun mostly to the south, you get very little production. I do get much better than now in the summer though from very early am to late pm - but yeah, now is terrible for me

On the bright side for you 3.5Kwhr isn't bad for this time of year. That's 70 cents or so in electricity you generated today to spend on a pack of Tayto's :-)

I know there is worse coming in December, but today has been the worst day for production since I installed the thing 6 weeks ago. (5.3Kwp split East/West)

Total production: 0.9Kwhr

I had 0.7 kWh production yesterday (5.7kWp) ! Worst day for me since install in May.

On the flip side I had 7.14kWh production today!

Could be, although panels have a rating which is based on a specific temperature. For example, they might say 350W @ 25 Celsius. You'd think that a sunny day would produce the most power, but usually the hotter it is, the less efficient the cells are ironically. That's not to confuse power with efficiency. You'll get more power on a sunny day, but the panels themselves wouldn't be the most efficient - if you follow me.

Or another way in explaining it, is more energy will fall on a square meter on a sunny day, but it might only convert 18% of that energy as opposed to 20% on a cooler day.

First full day of production yesterday.

8.16kw SSW

9.7kwh produced

About 4kw to battery and 2.7kw to Eddi

Battery took us to about 11pm.

😁 Thanks bullit_dodger.

If I can reach the 11pm on battery I'll be happy.

Not so nice here today but still 1.6kWh generated so far.

Need to look at getting the battery charged at night rate on these days as I thought I had everything set correctly, missed something somewhere so need to check settings again.

You might want to think a little about that - charging the battery at night rate that is. Sure on days like today you want to do it, but with days like yesterday, you want that battery (mostly) empty when the solar production kicks in. Probably charge it at 7am at night rate up to 40%, which will hopefully last from 8am -> 10am until your panels start to take up the slack.

Hard one to call as it depends on weather forecast a little. I like toying with it myself, but in reality you'll only save a few euros a month......if that. Still, it's a nice game to play. Easier for me than others as I can change the charging parameters via the web, so I'm not having to go to the physical inverter, which for many people is in the attic and not readily accessible to muck about with things.

For me being in a red storm warning area just outside Cork City I had a pretty decent days production. (6.1kWp) Also all my panels are still on my roof....