Outbuildings and why they're great. (Vanport)

[Joeboy]

A couple of nights in Edinburgh before heading back up to get the first vanport panels up and outputting .

A nice wee 32 panel array on the water in Leith today.
Could do with a clean!


Giving this place a go tonight, Brazilian meat restaurant. See how it stacks up to the excellent Fazenda. The power of advertising!

Rode the tram from harbour to St Andrews sq. £2.20 each, what a deal.



All things being equal we should clear around £150 off the arrays for the month after running costs, EV and home consumption.

I think I'll buy one of those dtu lites to get to the G99 profile in the unit. Makes sense that it defaults to European lower V setting and not UK since it's a Euro unit. Those panels will be moving soon too so might as well max their potential. Thanks pudding, good call, the share is much appreciated.

[Joeboy]

Well, The Assembly rooms situated Rio Brazilian Steakhouse is wonderful. Lovely setting, great buffet, the wandering servers and green/red card meats system. Had a lovely bottle of Rioja too with swmbo.

Well worth a visit.





Booking was 19.00 to 20.30. Arrived a little early, in bed by 21.00hrs and awake at 08.30hrs!

Plans to stop in past Brechin recycle centre tomorrow morning for an ironmongery rummage. Still putting together gear for the vanport gates. DTU lite is on its way. A good way to spend some of this months array production profits.

Will see about getting the first 3 panels aloft tomorrow afternoon with No1 Son (while I've got him) and begin running them in Monday and then upgrading the cables back to the solar controller. Hoping to lop at least 5mtrs off the length of cable run during the cable upgrade.

Hopefully in place, secure and power on by Tuesday. Slightly ahead of my September plan.

The recharge in Turkey has been great.

[Joeboy]

A quick note for anyone mounting panels on wooden rails on an outbuilding

SWMBO got a box of galvinised fence panel clips for £2.

A bit of hammer and drill work and they are 2 point fixing per panel corner and three point fixing per into the timber.

Using M6 stainless bolts, washers & nyloc nuts.

[Joeboy]

We are live on the new string. Still running on the 4mm DC cable from combiner to solar controller. Will be upgrading that tomorrow.

Cloudy and partialy shaded this late in the day but saw an immediate 400W bump on the known historical compare to Solaredge system.








This string and the one to come aren't really about bumping up the momentary take but more about spreading the net a little wider to catch more solar fish on marginal days.

PB on the Victron system was 10 days ago at 33.04kWh. Interested to see a decent day soon to see if we can do something about that.



The Solaredge system generated 31.8kWh that same day.



Edit- That is mental! Peaking at over 3kW at 16.20hrs. I don't remember seeing that before. The response in Wattage to any opportunity of sun is significantly perkier. It's the only way I can put it. Perky.

[Joeboy]

26.67kWh Victron
25.5kWh Solaredge
104.58% Victron over Solaredge
Yesterday's figures, weather was hit & miss too.

Interested to see what even a late (15.30hrs ish) start up of the new string can do.

Nowty, an extra 1.65kW panels to the list.

[Bugtownboy]

It's the only way I can put it. Perky.

Don’t think you can beat perky

Loving the multi-tasking van port. Good job

[Joeboy]

It's the only way I can put it. Perky.

Don’t think you can beat perky

Loving the multi-tasking van port. Good job

It's funny you should say that, boardwalk in our Turkish village lasr week. Bing bong.....

[AGT]

Nice result bud.

Will all help come winter, widescreen clean of snow, extra log storage, extra PV… win win

[nowty]

A nice balance between AC and DC coupling.

[Joeboy]

Nice result bud.

Will all help come winter, widescreen clean of snow, extra log storage, extra PV… win win

Thank you! Late burst of 18.00hrs shine. 6kW incoming.

Truly outstanding day. Looking forward to and hoping for our first 80kWh day in the not too distant future.