Daily pv production

If you are sticking 30-40kWh every day into your car at work to bring home for free, it won't be long before they limit how much you can avail of. 😉

You'd also run the risk of getting hit with BIK on that if revenue copped on.

But, yeah, it will be, maybe not a game changer, but definitely a massive plus to have the ability to use your car storage for the house.

I don't have an EV yet, and not looking likely for a few years yet, but I would only see myself using it as a backup only, at a push to eliminate peak time demand if that (likely) becomes the norm with mad unit costs. I'd prefer to reduce any reduction in charging capacity from non-driving usage as much possible on an EV to keep the range. Also wouldn't like to be totally dependent on the car storage in case the car is away when I'd need it, though that's just for my circumstances.

Probably a discussion better suited to the Random Renewables thread, or indeed it's own thread once V2G is rolled out.

Wow, close to south performs so much better. I've about the same size as you. But more E/W split (all that we have roof wise bar). I only got 75% of your output this month. Happy days for you!

I'm only 1.5 months in myself. Tbh I still think it's class to even get a few kWhs a day when it's peeing rain. Our lowest was 1.75 (rained all day), highest was maybe 25 (clear blue skies last month). So even we I get single digits on crap days, it's more than I expected. As Tesco say 'every little helps' :)

Funnily enough your last paragraph, is practically verbatim what I've said to my wife, even with the "every little help" 😄

Last 3 days have even very consistent between 14.4 and 14.8

Beast mode activated today

Running at 80% for the last hour

😭 Nooooo

23.1 from a 4.4kWp system in the midlands. 19.7 exported as we were away for most of the day.

Really good today. 28kw. Prevuos best was 18.5 on Saturday

Good to see what it's capable of. Dip at lunch from "grid overload?" And then some clouds brought a quick end to the 87% capacity output at one stage

31kWh yesterday, the peak production day for us (first week!). 8kWp all SSE facing.

Pretty happy, 3*loads of washing and drying all done on the excess as well as water heated and 20kWh of battery storage filled to ~90%

10.4 from a 4.4 KwP system. Not the best day, but sure tis better than nothing

As a comparison, I've 4.9kWp and got 7.5 kWh yesterday (cloudy day in Dublin). That's split across 50% SE, rest is SW + NW. That's all the small roof space we have used up. But advantage is we get a better span across the day, so clouds at a point in time don't hammer me. Though I get much less output than a closer to S setup. Highest we've hit to date is 24kWH during the blue sky days in August (wasn't live before that).

Tbh, I'm fairly happy whatever it produces. It's all free juice :)

I'm running on a daily average of 18.5kWh which is way above expectation.

Well done on week1!

You're setup is very close to mine. We're live 2 months now so go easy on yourself (he says to himself) 😊 It's a long game and you'll be all over the shop at the start. Great news is you can now see when you use juice, and how much. Then you can start to tweak stuff. And battery helps smooth it all.

Assuming you don’t have a backwards spinning meter (in which case it gives you time to learn your usage), for now a good starting point is use 1 device at a time (without killing yourself). So dishwasher, washing machine…. Most have a timer on them. If not, set an alarm on your phone of Alexa to remind you each day – good enough for now.

Or if / when you get time, get some smart plugs so you can schedule the dishwasher, washing machine.. so they can run during the day. That’s assuming your machines ‘hold’ their setting when the smart plug powers on, ours do. Others here said they don’t. They use ~2kW when heating the water and drop to few hundred watts outside that, or lower at times. For now, just stagger them so they don't both run at same time. They will roughly use 1-2kWh depending on the heat used / settings you pick. Pick a time when the house is quiet as more chance to use the solar. We use more power once kids are home from school.

On your under 5kWp E/W split you’re not gonna get a sustained 2kW (to run the peak load of those machines) at this time of the year.

Timing options:

If there is juice in the battery, start the 1st load once the sun is hitting the E (not 1st thing when low in sky and output is poor) and the morning / breakfast stuff is out of the way. Means you can use the battery early and give it time to fill again later. Or do one in morning and one in afternoon so battery gets recharged. Or better yet, schedule the dishwasher so it runs in the morning and heats the kitchen for when you’re up. Means it won’t be running on solar (at this time of the year), but could run from the battery. And it’s ‘free’ heating in the morning. Then schedule the washing machine.

Rinse, repeat, & suck and see what works. Will differ for every gaff of course. So take what’s above if works for you. Enjoy the journey. Hard part is done now!!

18.5 today. Happy again as its above consumption.

Since installation 2 weeks ago we have produced 45 more units than we consumed

6.5 kw South face

Only managed 6kWh yesterday. Load shifting increasing from here on.

12.9 today

6 5kw system south facing

Unfortunately I think that feature will only be available to S6 range of Solis inverters

Nice one, thought I had read would be for S6 only but that's great news then if in pipeline for s5 inverters too

Pretty poor day yesterday.7kWh total. It was bucketing it down most of the day.

Have already beaten that 7kWh today by 11 am