Daily pv production

First day and did 19.1 kWh really happy, may it last 🤞🤞

You were spot on with the output mate.

With regards to being away during the summer it would be 4-5 days with nobody being at home.

Logic for the battery I guess is that it's full once we get home and can pull from that regardless of the weather.

Let's say for example we don't get a battery, we leave the house on Monday and don't return until Saturday. We've basically exported everything for five days. We come home and need to do washing etc and immediately need to pull in from the grid.

I'm not too pushed on battery size tbh. Just something cheap and cheerful to take in some of the excess.

We could possibly add another 5 or 6 panels but the sun really only gets around to that side of the house for 6 or 7 months of the year.

Cheers BD. Very much appreciated.

Probably deviating a little away from the "Daily PV production", but 100% agree with you 6. I do that strategy myself - and it is great. The issue with LimerickCity though is that with him being away for sometimes days at a time, he's not there to "cycle" the battery and take advantage of the captured energy, so the payback timeline is long as he's missing out on those days. Now to be clear, you will eventually get break even, but it's a hard slog, probably 15-20 years or so. Might be better ways to spend €3,000 ? Double glazing, insulation in the attic, etc. dunno.

A small battery (2.4Kwhr) would be all I'd do.... at a push.

35.7KW on Friday on the 7.8kw panels, best since install in Dec.

The house is currently A3 rated mated. Brought it from C3 through various upgrades over the years.

I was thinking of a battery in the 1k to 2k range if one exists.

Just galling watching the electricity flow back to the grid.

I'm going to put in a monster day today.......for early march that is! 😁

Sunset here 18:20 so I expect a good few post around that time with everybody else's epic numbers as well!

At the moment I am only using about 40-50% of it and that takes a bit of work using washing machines, working from home so use the showers during the days etc but thankfully I have the missus on board now and have her set up so on the Home Assistant app so she can see when we are pumping out the kW and what we are using. I am only a few months into it and didn't realize how much excess I will have coming into the spring summer.

To be honest the only thing I can see that will use the excess I am generating is an EV. So I just ordered an EV a couple of weeks ago (ID4) so hopefully this will soak up every bit I have, I have a PCP with VW that was due for renewal so it has worked out perfectly for me. I might touch 40 kWh today so no size battery will absorb that apart from an EV battery.

So far today I have only used 30% of my PV

Can home assist work with solis invertor ? Tks

Finished out with 38 kWh, thought I would break 40. It didn't reach its max of 6.1kW as I think there must have been some high level clouds or something. Anyway a good day. Exported most of it unfortunately

Yes it can but all it does is scrape the data off the Ginlong website, its a HACS integration so there is a bit more to it but if I can do it then you should be able to. If you look at the thread on this forum for PV automation some of the lads here are reading the inverter directly using MODBUS. Its above my paygrade though. Although I use the HA to scrape the data I now use a ShellyEM to read my PV output as this gives data live and a lot more detail. The HACS integration is only every 5 mins or so.

Using the the ShellyEM I can then use Grafana to do fancy charts as it all ties in neatly, here is todays energy usage.

After seeing ECO's 38 Kwhr, I feel somewhat inadequate with my "meager" 13.1 Kwhr.....even if it's an all time record for me :-)

Started out such a nice clear sky day, then some altocumulus clouds came in and ruined my curves. I've yet (in 5 months) to get 1 single day which has a smooth curve. Ohh well, tomorrow looks like it could even be better. Perhaps that's the day I get to see perfection!?

29kwh today, every sunny day is a new record for the year so far. Only got the system last May so these months are all unknown.

106kwh in March so far, in other words better than all of December 😁

I started using electric radiators around the house to soak some of that excess but still managed to export 5kws today. I even heated the hell the out of my shed, just because.

No problem at all! well I originally specified 3 kWp when I tendered and specified building my house. But then reading this sub here during the build process people were saying the cost of the actual panels itself it not the expensive part really and add as much as you can. Since I already had scaffolding up and the rafters were exposed it wasn't that much extra to add another 3 kWp €2700 (inc VAT) My total system is around €6900.

I don't have a battery and don't plan to get one the payback from again people on this forum isnt that great. I have ordered an EV and should take delivery around June, so I am hoping that will soak up a good bit of my excess. I have planned for an EV as well in my house in that I have two feeds from my consumer unit (and 2 CAT6 cables) to two isolators on an external wall ready for the EV charger.

To be honest I didn't realise I would have this much excess but as you can see here my two lads came back from training and had 2 big LONG showers and my HP can go up to 4-5 kW when heating the water and my PV will cover that.

Also I will be making a fortune selling back to the grid when the FIT comes in later this year!!!!🙄

Wow, how many panels in KW?

Cheers I'll look into it 👍👍