Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

[AGT]

I would think of an alternative bracket solution rather than loose the inverter.

[nowty]

As I have installed my "spare" Sofar ME3000SP unit to double up on export / charging flexibility, that means I no longer had a spare. :evil

That has now been rectified as I'd noticed some of these units are now going for under £200 on fleebay.

The problem I see with these is that they're all missing the wall brackets. There's one that's fairly local to me going for a song. I messaged the seller asking if it has the bracket but it got lost in a house move. By the time a new bracket has been made it's no longer a great deal.

Flat steel strip 300mm long, 30mm wide and 3mm thick can be had from Ebay at £6 including delivery.

Cut it in half so you have two strips 150mm long, one for each side of the inverter.

Bend the top of each strip 20mm from the end to 60 degrees.

Drill a couple of holes in each strip so they can be screwed to a wall, fix each strips to the wall vertically, 300mm apart and your done.

[nowty]

After a cloudy start this morning Nowty Towers has seen peaks of 9kW coming in on the solar in the last hour.

I think thats the highest I've seen this year so far.

[Moxi]

Good day here too, put car on charge to soak up the excess - making the most before the return of the gales tomorrow.

Yesterday’s storm put paid to one of my Chinese micro inverters due to being blasted by rain blown at 60mph - the rain was hitting the bins and gabions and the underside of the panel and inverter was just sat in a cloud of atomised water - had it apart and dried internally but it’s a dead duck with arc damage evident around the main chip.

It’s just accelerated my plans to buy a solar micro grid tie inverter so no great loss other than today’s insolation.

I’ve also been on Rexel to price up dc cable and a victron mppt smart solar controller for the new 2 kW array that’s in construction.

Am I correct in thinking that all I need to connect the victron to the pylontechs is another set of long pylontech cables and connect to the spare pos and neg terminals on the battery.

Moxi

[Joeboy]

Good day here too, put car on charge to soak up the excess - making the most before the return of the gales tomorrow.

Yesterday’s storm put paid to one of my Chinese micro inverters due to being blasted by rain blown at 60mph - the rain was hitting the bins and gabions and the underside of the panel and inverter was just sat in a cloud of atomised water - had it apart and dried internally but it’s a dead duck with arc damage evident around the main chip.

It’s just accelerated my plans to buy a solar micro grid tie inverter so no great loss other than today’s insolation.

I’ve also been on Rexel to price up dc cable and a victron mppt smart solar controller for the new 2 kW array that’s in construction.

Am I correct in thinking that all I need to connect the victron to the pylontechs is another set of long pylontech cables and connect to the spare pos and neg terminals on the battery.

Moxi

Yes you are correct Moxi. That's how I did it, had a couple of spare Ptech connections and got the BIG soldering iron out. Worked out well.

Today caught us out up here. Way more power incoming than we expected so 67% battery soc now at 22.37hrs...Will have to flip mind soon to go to deep export behaviour

[nowty]

Oh my goodness, the first time this year I've seen ALL the rear panels in full sun at the same time.

Over 8kW coming in before 11am, no cloud and there is a whole week of this to come.

[AE-NMidlands]

Sun? We haven't seen it at all despite the forecast being light cloud/sunny intervals.
What does please me though is that the W-facing array is giving 600W and has been doing over 300W since 09.30...

[Moxi]

yep a wonderous day to be sure, I'm just plugging the car in to charge as the house battery is back to full and the washing is on, tumble dryer running and wife is making Welsh cakes ! I really ought to get that new 2kWp mounting frame built up some time soon - it "feels" like we are getting past the worst of the storms now so I should have a sufficient build and ballast window.

Moxi

That was around 7:40 am as I walked Bodhi the sun broke over the Natilles valley at the Wydfa end (Snowdon)

[nowty]

There is a Nowty Towers project coming soon, I'll probably spin it off as a separate thread.

Some can probably guess what its going to be.

[Moxi]

NICE!

Moxi