Winter is here then!

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Stinsy
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Winter is here then!

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After a cracking October to-date, today was forecast to be "grey with sunny spells" well the sunny spells haven't happened, it has been gloomy all day.

0.4kWh total generation today, worst day since 20th Feb. Oh well, summer was nice while it lasted!
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3x 380W JA Solar panels (1.14kWp)
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Oldgreybeard
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Not too bad here, 11.28kWh so far, and it's still warm, so I've had the aircon on in the bedroom for the past couple of hours to cool it down a bit. The house is currently sitting at a fairly warm 23.8°C in the hall. If this mild weather holds I can see us going for a few more weeks before the heating comes on.
25 off 250W Perlight solar panels, installed 2014, with a 6kW PowerOne inverter, about 6,000kWh/year generated
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A mighty 4.5kWh generated back at ours. Night charging of the stack now until Spring. :roll:
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Ripple 7kW WT & Gen to date 19MWh
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Oldgreybeard
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Surprising how much difference there is between us. A snapshot of our system as of about a minute or two ago:

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25 off 250W Perlight solar panels, installed 2014, with a 6kW PowerOne inverter, about 6,000kWh/year generated
6 off Pylontech US3000C batteries, with a Sofar ME3000SP inverter
richbee
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Stinsy wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 4:02 pm After a cracking October to-date, today was forecast to be "grey with sunny spells" well the sunny spells haven't happened, it has been gloomy all day.

0.4kWh total generation today, worst day since 20th Feb. Oh well, summer was nice while it lasted!
Same here - 0.8kWh today - lowest ever (since starting in Septmber)! - The slide started yesterday - only 3.6kWh
Solar PV since July '22:
5.6kWp east/west facing
3.6kW Sunsynk hybrid inverter
2x 5.12kWh Sunsynk batteries
1.6kWp Hoymiles East/West facing PV on the man cave
Ripple DW 2kW
Ripple WB 200W
Bugtownboy
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From a non-generator, doesn’t seem like it. Still in shorts and t (nothing new there), garden still (ish) productive - last of the French beans tonight, Swiss Chard & Kale going strong.

Still picking salad (Mizuna and other leaves), tomatoes and peppers still ripening (just).

Turnips and spuds (planted late August) doing well.

Garlic and Spring Cabbage for next year (although the spring cabbage supplements salads over winter) doing well.

House at 22, so feels nothing like Winter or even Autumn yet. Long may it continue.
chris_n
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0.0 for my installation in the North East, fog all day. Inverter didn't even try to start.
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openspaceman
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chris_n wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:09 pm 0.0 for my installation in the North East, fog all day. Inverter didn't even try to start.
Rain till 14:00 then bright sunshine, battery up to 50% then a power cut, still ongoing expected outage till 22:00

Cheap Aldi inverter generator keeping lights on but the Growatt doesn't like something about the output, reports 231V fluctuating slightly and 50Hz but will not connect. Shame as the battery would have filled in the afternoon.
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openspaceman wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:22 pm
chris_n wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:09 pm 0.0 for my installation in the North East, fog all day. Inverter didn't even try to start.
Rain till 14:00 then bright sunshine, battery up to 50% then a power cut, still ongoing expected outage till 22:00

Cheap Aldi inverter generator keeping lights on but the Growatt doesn't like something about the output, reports 231V fluctuating slightly and 50Hz but will not connect. Shame as the battery would have filled in the afternoon.
Tweak the grid monitoring parameters. :geek:
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openspaceman
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nowty wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:52 pm
Tweak the grid monitoring parameters. :geek:
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I wouldn't know where to start.
Morso S11
FIT
16 Sharp PV panels facing WSW 4kW
Solarmax 4200S inverter
Non FIT
3 Canadian solar DC coupled 1.75kW facing SSE
Storage
Growatt SPA3000TL BL inverter ac coupled
Growatt GBLI6532 6.5kWh lithium phosphate battery
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