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drjim
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Hello from (hopefully) Sunny S Manchester!

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Hello all

I'm Jim, an A&E Doctor with a long hobby list including brewing, building "stuff", welding/repairing cars, most stuff to do with IT/computers, and a bit of solar power dabbling so far. two 190w panels and a chinese micro inverter have been putting a few watts into my house since last year.

Hopefully picking up some second hand solar panels tomorrow which are all 250w and should have 8 of them which I hope to deploy on shed rooves and easily accessible bits of the house roof as part of "project baseload", which is probably self explanatory. Should I get that going well, we then get project "hot water", and in the future project "battery"

I'll put some more details in the PV forum when I get stuff.

Jim
ecogeorge
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Welcome aboard.
We're a friendly bunch.
Don't forget the photos as you preceed.
George
1750w Vertical PV micro inverters
3800w almost horizontal/south
Aarrow Becton 7 Woodburner
Dream 3kw ASHP only connected to summer Pool.
Allotment heavy clay.
1.784kw Kirk Hill
0.875kw Derril Water
0.2kwWhitelaw Brae
1kw Harlow Hydro.
drjim
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Thanks!

Forgot to say I used to lurk on the other forum, I think I did post once in response to seeing Nowty's pit with plasterboard poles trying to hold the walls open, begging him to get some acro's in there.

Interested in your vertical microinverter setup mentioned in your sig...
ecogeorge
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i'll try and get a pic but it's just panels on garage wall will micro inverters inside garage .
George
1750w Vertical PV micro inverters
3800w almost horizontal/south
Aarrow Becton 7 Woodburner
Dream 3kw ASHP only connected to summer Pool.
Allotment heavy clay.
1.784kw Kirk Hill
0.875kw Derril Water
0.2kwWhitelaw Brae
1kw Harlow Hydro.
drjim
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Joined: Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:19 pm

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I'm thinking of a solar wall shade for the back of our house that gets a bit toasty in the summer sun. .
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Fintray
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Welcome to the forum Jim, do you also frequent Mig welding forum as well?
3.87kWp PV
10.24kWp PV SolarEdge system
Tesla Powerwall 2
100 x 47mm Navitron tubes (still being installed!) Now likely to be removed for more PV.
MK2 PV router DHW diverter
Morso 5kW WBS
Vaillant AroTherm 10kW ASHP
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drjim
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Indeed I do frequent mig-welding.co.uk
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nowty
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drjim wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:15 pm Thanks!

Forgot to say I used to lurk on the other forum, I think I did post once in response to seeing Nowty's pit with plasterboard poles trying to hold the walls open, begging him to get some acro's in there.
:pot-stir:, welcome.

There is a less scary thread version here, which I have yet to finish off.
https://camelot-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... =22&t=2264

But the horror picture is here, don't do this at home folks. :xx:
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18.7kW PV > 109MWh generated
Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 26MWh generated
5 Other RE Coop's
105kWh EV storage
60kWh Home battery storage
40kWh Thermal storage
GSHP + A2A HP's
Rain water use > 510 m3
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