Daily pv production

Best day of the month so far, still well short of some folk.

I was delayed getting home to plug in the car and exported half a unit, *sobs...

Best day so far this year :-) but gutted I didn't break the 5.0Kwhr.....

For the first time since I got the install done some smooth curves. Tomorrow looking good too. Them trees across the road could do with a can of petrol and a zippo from 2:30pm! LOL.

All depends on where your measuring from. I didn't know what the convention was, but of course the sine of 80, is the same as the cosine of 10. But yeah, fair point duly noted to use the sun as the plane of reference.

Not sure what your are referring to though about the "theoretical increase production is only 1% at this time of year". Is that comment directed at me also? If so what was the 1% in reference to, you've lost me I'm afraid mate.

When I did some math, I was seeing ~20% production boost for Dec & Jan using the online calculators if you optimized your south facing panels angle for "wintertime", but maybe your referring to something else? Not sure.

20% isn't bad if it's easily achievable i guess. Something like a ground mount, course, you'd have to be careful about creating a "sail" out of the panels, so there is that. Normally I'd be against movable panels for the sake of "simplicity", but if it's easy and you had wind protection.....yeah, Id probably give it a lash. (Not applicable for me with my e/w split anyway)

Yeah today was great. Ye guys with the south'ish facing panels are creating envy here!

Though not sure I understand your comment "won't be bringing the Eddi into play until the weather improves and don't need the stove." Or to put it another way, why wouldn't you have your Eddi stopping you from exporting to the grid? Isn't that sort of why you bought it? Could you clarify?

Try two gaming rigs in the house and then complain about having too much power

I use my 3090 to heat up the house 😂

Agreed. Surely better to be exporting when you're getting the benefit of a rolled back meter rather than getting a day/night, better daytime rate but diddly squat for the export?

@Jonathan Not aimed at you or anyone specific. I just saw it in a couple of places in the thread.

@bullit_dodger I meant 1% increase in production per day due to the sun being higher every day. It’s small as the angle of incidence is changing very slowly right now.

Just checked my meter reading, not due yet but I was curious.

Day units since December 6th - 70

Night units since December 6th - 1056!

The math might be tricky to work out there. Probably this time of year the night meter would be better as you will be exporting little compared to the benefit of night rate, but come March-April......all those glorious units your exporting will be money in the bank.

Careful to keep an eye on it......you don't want the figures LOWER at the end of your bill than at the start of it. That might flag an alert with your provider to swap your meter. (Speculating, but hang onto it as long as you can - you are one of the lucky few!)

Up and down like a jockeys giblets.

Still a good day despite the cloud and showers.

7.2kWh today but also breached 3kW barrier. In a month or less should be going at full throttle

Tough day on the production front.

Similiar, 2.9kwh with cloud all day. Don't think the sun appeared at any stage. Didn't expect to have got that much when I checked in the evening.

Averaging 6.5kwh a day since the install two weeks ago. Almost 25% of overall usage. 3 especially sunny days bringing that up, but still good for January

If you select the PV performance tool

Select location on map - Select Grid Connected tab

You can leave database as is and generally crystalline silicon is ok for the panels. Building integrated assuming they are going on your roof. Enter the slope of the roof and the angle(azimuth) it is facing. Follow there guidelines for azimuth where south is 0°. Hit the visualize results and this will generate the report which you can view or print out.