Rooftop solar update: IT'S FINALLY ON!
Downside is, because everything is messed up about this install with things being done in the wrong order, they don't yet have the device hooked up/configured that lets us actually SEE the production. So here we are... after all this time... producing power. Maybe. I can't even tell. lol
I took a closer look at the meter and I realized it toggled between a couple of different states. So I went back out and one of the states that was showing all zeros before is showing a 1 now. I think it's already generated 1kWh.
(I should also note it's kind of dark and cloudy right now.)
brb - turning on ALL THE THINGS!
Okay not really... but... I mean... even right now on a cloudy day, we're feeding power BACK into the system right now. Essentially everything in my house is now running for free.
(Of course, it's not a very cold day so the electric heat isn't running right now. I'm sure that'll change the equation a bit. 😛)
Sweet - we got logged into the solar tracker thingy. So far it says we've generated 17.46 kWh in under 3 hours. I have nothing to compare this with, but seems good considering it's so cloudy.
So far the "equivalent trees planted" is 0. (Doh...)
@bigzaphod I made some grievous maths errors here. I didn’t take into account our own solar production and it’s been very sunny here these past few days.
That makes your setup about 1x what our house uses in a day.
But that’s without warm water which we get from solarthermics, so that’d be another 5–7kWh.
Which I don’t think is oversized if you have heating / cooling attached.
Also there is no oversizing solar in my book. Every kWh helps.
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