Daily pv production

Record production yesterday too, 28.5kWh off 5.6kW E/W.

Only had a E/W install since February, but question, do E/W ever hit their rated power (for each array, not overall)?

Looking at below the attached, you can see the 2.4kW East Array (blue) does well to beat 2kW instantaneous power. And similarly the 3.2kW West, very rarely beats 3kW instantaneous.

No shading to speak of bar a small bit of chimney on the Westerly array at noon, but panels are optimised.

Not that I’ve seen in the 9 months I’m live.

I’ve 2.7kWp on E and got a max of 2.2kW yesterday. That’s ~80% of the max rated output of the string. To date I’ve never gotten a higher %. I’ve panels on 2 angels though (a flat and main roof) so that may impact production.

And last August when it was blue sky scorcher days, that % was the same (though panels were hotter so output would have been reduced).

Good news is that while the output is lower than S, E/W has a longer time window each day. I’ve no battery so that helps me. So if weather is muck at midday, we’re less affected. And for 4 hours yesterday, E produced at least 75% of the max 2.7kWp possible.

Would you mind posting an image of your production yesterday? The graph I mean. Curious to see when the north west panels kick in and how well they performed yesterday. Thanks.

Might be clearer if you reduced the timeline in your chart as the days are very "bunched up" and it's difficult to see what your talking about.

Here's my E/W split (exactly 90/270) for 14th of April.

So I got 2.062Kw out of 2.28Kwp, or 90.3%. Yesterday was 78% max as I suspect the panels were hotter and/or there was more a haze there. Bear in mine though it's April, while the sun is getting nice and high in the sky, what you really want is a day in June and then about 10-11am where the sun is 40deg above the horizon at due east where it's "end-on" to the panel. That'll be your max.

If your getting 80%, that's not bad or something to be concerned about. Normal enough and why the advice is to oversize your array as much as you can.

Hit the 30 KWh mark yesterday. And because the EV was away, most of that was exported.

I got caught with 3 panels on it's own string and the startup voltage (VOC) is too low. So the string wakes up later and goes to sleep earlier than it should. If I could fit a 4th panel (which I can’t), I’d be fine. 

Hope you can make that out. They use practically the same colours for both strings - I'm curious to see what my max generation will be. I suspect maybe 50/55kw is possible in June.

May is bird poop central here.. car is usually destroyed.. i give up trying to wash it for the month.. re the panels is the general consensus is that it will just bio degrade and wash away with rain?

Don't think anyone will be posting up perfect curves today, I'll barely make 5kW

At least the panels will get a wash