I had 10 of mine tilted to 60degrees and reduced that to 37degrees at the weekend, I noticed them quite dirty compared to my fixed 45degree panels. I'll give them a gentle wash perhaps at some stage
4kwh so far, probably first night I'll have to charge from grid since the good weather.
Tomorrow looks as bad.
If my panels aren't as clean as the day they were installed, then there's no hope !!!
Brutal in Dublin today, estimate way off 😥
Raise a ticket with Solis and they'll give you an API key.
You're better off pulling data locally using Modbus though. Realtime and more efficient.
I've been using https://toolkit.solcast.com.au/live-forecast
Must check out your method Bullit_dodger
On day 3 of solar. Trying to figure out the best way to access the raw soliscloud data. Any pointers?
A record (low) day yesterday of just 3.4kWh (Co. Wexford) since solar was installed in June.
We were lucky that it was our Free Weekender day from EI.
The sun is out again today. 👍️
Designed my own application.
But ultimately I use the raw information which comes from met.ie , you can give the lat/long into the Met Eireann and they will return a xml/json file which you can interpret to figure out the solar energy for the next few days. E.g.
http://metwdb-openaccess.ichec.ie/metno-wdb2ts/locationforecast?lat=xxx;long=yyy
Substituting for some location in Dublin.
http://metwdb-openaccess.ichec.ie/metno-wdb2ts/locationforecast?lat=53.27;long=-6.32
As you can see above, there's a reasonable correlation between the forecast and the actual. Sure, somedays it's out by a bit, but in general it enables me to set the battery charge level with a decent confidence level.
1.7kWh in North Co. Dub today. I should have charged the battery last night but there wasn't actually much use today in the house anyways. Battery is at 20% now only getting just a bit above 30% during the day.
3.9.22 - 6.9 array
22.9 through lots of rain and cloudy skies, benefit of two arrays
Logged in to see how people faired today I generated 2kwh on the nose in Kildare from a 4.2kWp system with a 3.6kw inverter it was a shocking day from start to finish! I've started to qualify my install lately if anyone asks as I've 4.2kWp of panels and a 3.6kw inverter so I think I should really quote the inverter size rather than panels as it's lower?
5.1 from a 4.4KWp system - midlands.
That was decent where abouts in the country are you?
A paltry 1.5 kWh here in Dublin Fingal.
managed 20.2 today
What do you use to predict production?
And yet tomorrow (Sunday) I see I'm forecasted to generate 20Kwhr, so decent change for the good
2kw today.. atrocious.
22, 18 and just 10kWh today. Sh1te start to the month.
Winter is definitely coming 😭
14.4 kwh in Cork today from my 3.2 SE .8 NW and newly added .8 W mounted vertically. Another 2.4 kwp planned for the extension next year and still have the main roof panel free. If we decide to stay put it will be filled😁
Tomorrow looks worse mate - only 3.7Kwhr estimated for me tomorrow!
Miserable 8.1kWh today.
If it was the same day as your initial install day, you'd be generally looking at about €250/panel mate. As an after addon, I'd say €400-500/panel. Yeah nearly double. Thats assuming that you current inverter can handle 2 strings (and your using 1x now), and that your within limits of voltage/current.
The reason of course is that you have to pay for a second call out, potentially scaffold installation a 2nd time, etc. it's not just the panels you have to pay for but all the sundry work(s). Hence why the general recommendation is to get (more) panels in than you think you need initially.
Hopefully the correct group. We have a 28.kWh setup here with a Huawei Inverter. It is basically an 8 panel setup on one string.
We have some additional space on a side roof that could fit 6-8 panels. Would anyone have an idea how much it would cost to install and add those panels to the system?
Ha ha. As long as it's just a phone call and not a personal visit. My dogs love to eat anything green,!!
Eamonn Ryan might be making a phone call to ya any day :)
I have a 9.1kwh ground mount system 150 degree orientation in Galway. It gets a good dose of sunlight throughout the whole day. I only got in the Smart Meter last Monday the 22nd August at Midday. Since that time to now, I have exported 198kwh in little over 10 days. There is 5 in the household, with showers etc always on the go. I have no battery or EV.
Fook me - what size is that ? And how much export ?
550kwh on our first full month. Huge output for us, dwarfed by others here, but that's all good :)
It's largely charging our EV when it's in the driveway. Only self-consuming ~40% but still learning the ropes so ok with that for now, but will tighten it up in time. If we had a 10kwh battery (we have none now and still on the fence), we'd have been buying nothing from the grid to run the house and EV - which is unreal. I'm still very much in the excited and amazed space as we're only 5 weeks live. 4.9kwp (mainly E, small S, small W)
well done!
I've just over 588 for the month, and most of that was exported to the grid as we were away for most of the month. From the latest FIT info, we should be getting back 18c per KWh sent back to the grid. We're hoping to be well in credit once the bill comes through.
We've also had a smart meter installed and once we get an EV, we'll go to the EV bundle. We'll use the cheaper night rates to top up the dhw tank during the colder months. at 5 cents per KWh, it would make great sense to do it this way.
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