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Thanks 14% off your value given my panels are facing the wrong direction is not bad. 

 

I'll have to wait awhile spent quite alot on solar in February even though I installed it myself and now have flood damage to deal with atm.

Hopping insurance does not give me a hard time 

Battery SOC and consumption for today 

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8 minutes ago, Deeos said:

Thanks 14% off your value given my panels are facing the wrong direction is not bad. 

This gets worse the closer we get to the middle of winter, the sun moves over to the north.

 

17 minutes ago, Deeos said:

Thanks 14% off your value given my panels are facing the wrong direction is not bad. 

 

I'll have to wait awhile spent quite alot on solar in February even though I installed it myself and now have flood damage to deal with atm.

Hopping insurance does not give me a hard time 

Battery SOC and consumption for today 

Screenshot_20220421-165658_SOLARMAN Smart.jpg

Screenshot_20220421-165459_SOLARMAN Smart.jpg

Yea thats very fair, if you installed it yourself then what i would do is just move the PV2 string to the North side , that way you should get better production in winter without spending anything. "Thanks 14% off your value given my panels are facing the wrong direction is not bad. " The thing with this is that you only produce as much as you consume ,if i had more battery capacity my production would be quite a bit higher- same as my consumption at 900kwh for March because most of the day my production is same as my consumption after the batteries are full .

By the looks of your graphs you are using everything you are producing(it makes a nice bell curve on sunny days if you use it all) . I am not using nearly everything i could be producing if i had say another 5kwh battery capacity.

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@Nexuss that is a good point which I did not consider, will move it mid May and use a junction box with a male and female connector like the ones for the panels. 

I'd estimate 37K for 10 more panels with brackets 

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