Daily pv production

@mp3guy is permanently ramped up.... 😁 he has 16 kWp installed. You should check out the PVStats website @harderthanf built it for us, it has everybody's system size and their monthly data on there. Very useful to compare and contrast systems.

Jesus he is pushing out 1500 kWh during the summer I only realized

Any recommendations for plug in radiators?

Great option for days like today when there was excess.

I was about to ask the same thing. I have an old oil rad connected to a smart plug but I wouldn't mind getting a few more.

Oil is savagely priced and in winter I'd go through 400+ litres a month.

Only have PV since the start of the year (6.84kwh) but it's already changing our usage habits to maximise usage.

We aren't due to change a car for another year or three (f all milage put on the last 2 years) and weren't planning on an EV for that change. However already 'exported' 35kw in March ( have an old type meter that goes backwards,😏 but that won't last forever), so it's definitely on the radar now.

If we changed the 'home' car mainly used for the school/shop runs, that does only approx 350km a month, we could potentially be able to run it for free from Mar-Oct with the excess.

Though I am already planning on using the summer (May-Aug) excess to heat water via the Eddi, in lieu of oil as I wouldn't have the soild fuel stove lit during those months.

Will see how the summer goes with the water and will re-evaluate all then.

Biggest dilema if we did get an EV would be, does the free solar kWh that goes into it, count towards the payback of the PV or the car 😬

Not a perfect curve but just sneaked to top spot yesterday. I'd say we will have half of Februarys generation done in the first week of March.

Like others we have a few oil/electric radiators running on smart plugs and even at that we are probably using about half the production. Will look to pick up another one or two if we see them.

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21.5kWh here, pumped 12kWh into the battery, plenty of washing & drying, about 2kWh into the car and 1kWh into the Eddi. Zero export.

Total grid purchase of 7kWh which was overnight including about 1.5kWh into the battery.

What size is your array vs battery ? Today was a weekend but would an EV be home during the peak solar hours ?

What car?

7.8 KW Panels - 5KW Puredrive battery - would have gone bigger with battery, but cost was prohibitive. We are only using PV for 3 months, so adjusting slowly to same. EV would be around the house for a lot of the time, but probably another yr at least b4 purchase. New hot water cylinder is next, will use a bit of the excess up and is needed anyway.

Thanks will do cheers

I get these issues as well and have been playing around with the Zappi settings.

It seems that setting an 'Export Margin' can help and to set it to 'Avoid Drain', these are both under advanced settings on the Zappi. You might have to increase the export margin to see what works.

Similiar production yesterday.

Dont get sucked into paying €40k for a car to save yourself €40 a month :)