So August started with a bang. The cold weather the last 2 days brought very good yields along. Nearly as good as the best summer days.

Lines are at 2.5  5  7.5  10kwh on a minute 1.62kw system.

Edited August 16, 20224 yr by Scorp007

Trust you don't mind if I add mine for comparison.
3Aug was a lost cause🤗

23 minutes ago, zsde said:

Trust you don't mind if I add mine for comparison.
3Aug was a lost cause🤗

The more the merrier 😀

One can clearly see when one can  produce a lot more than one did use. 

Edited August 15, 20224 yr by Scorp007

Adding mine as well - been pretty decent and also managed to really bring down that Eskom usage

14 x 455w panels

 

 

 

Edited August 17, 20224 yr by MakoShark

Can you please specify the amount panels and wattage when you post those figures. 

Edited August 16, 20224 yr by PowerUser

#$%@#% Gauteng people showing off with their clear dry winters...☹️

☔

My figures generally mirror what other folks are posting, except I had low PV on August 2nd as well as on the 3rd. So these things can be very local.

Since the 4th there has been much PV happiness for my system.

34 minutes ago, GreenFields said:

#$%@#% Gauteng people showing off with their clear dry winters...☹️

☔

So while we never see snow we always get the cold wind. At least with good PV we get something to 😀 about.

1 hour ago, PowerUser said:

Can you please specify the amount panels and wattage when you post those figures. 

They are in my signature

 

Here is mine I see we all had a bad day on the third of August.

2 growatt 5000 ES --- 12 X  410 Kw panels ---2 strings of 6 each

Not worried about cycle count LBSA batteries BMS has a stupid way of counting cycles.

Edited August 16, 20224 yr by Antonio de Sa

8x460W plus 8x540W on a 5kW Sunsynk

16x400W PV in 2x8 strings


EDIT: Updated for full month of Aug 2022
NOTE: Can only generate PV as much as I can use as I don't currently grid feed.
Most afternoons there is some clipping.
Looking at mining to make use of the afternoon excess.

 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by system32

A very good month so far

3 hours ago, DieDusman said:

A very good month so far

So far my average for Aug is better than any month in over 3 yrs. Yes I know its early days. Approaching 5kwh/kw of PV per day.

3 hours ago, DieDusman said:

 

Double post.

Edited August 17, 20224 yr by Scorp007

Pi$$ poor performance from my 12° roof since about April.  6.37kWp system battling to get to 16kWh per day.  

Looking at tilting up the second row of panels. Analysis of NREL data shows I'll get a 17% improvement in the May - Aug trimester on that half of my panels if I tilt it to 30°.  Now the question - which is the better spend? Do this or just add a few more panels, properly angled of possible?  

On 2022/08/16 at 2:41 PM, MakoShark said:

14 x 455w panels

 

 

 

I also have 14 x 455 but much lower output in winter (low roof pitch angle and my wife's palm trees play a role here). What is your roof angle? Care to share daily graphs for the 3rd and 5th?  

Edited August 17, 20224 yr by Scubadude

13 minutes ago, Scubadude said:

I also have 14 x 455 but much lower output in winter (low roof pitch angle and my wife's palm trees play a role here). What is your roof angle? Care to share daily graphs for the 3rd and 5th?  

My roof is the standard angle, I think around 20 to 25 degrees but does face exactly north and not much shading...

 

3rd:

 

5th:

 

Edited August 17, 20224 yr by MakoShark

Mine is perfectly north but only 12° slope and a palm tree either side causing morning and afternoon shading in winter.  My sad picture for the 5th ...

 

 

2 hours ago, Scubadude said:

Mine is perfectly north but only 12° slope and a palm tree either side causing morning and afternoon shading in winter.  My sad picture for the 5th ...

 

 

Those palm trees are robbing you of quite a bit twice a day. 🤔

On 2022/08/16 at 4:59 PM, Antonio de Sa said:

Here is mine I see we all had a bad day on the third of August.

2 growatt 5000 ES --- 12 X  410 Kw panels ---2 strings of 6 each

Not worried about cycle count LBSA batteries BMS has a stupid way of counting cycles.

Nice dashboard - I've updated one of my boring tables to include "Cell display mode"
Q1. How to you record Average Cloud Cover - do you have a weather station or something?
Q2. Where to do get the load shedding schedule?
Thanks in advance.

12 hours ago, system32 said:

Nice dashboard - I've updated one of my boring tables to include "Cell display mode"
Q1. How to you record Average Cloud Cover - do you have a weather station or something?
Q2. Where to do get the load shedding schedule?
Thanks in advance.

@system32 First let me tell you I am BC ( before computers ) All the info I get from my inverters and battery was programed and constructed by my son, he is a "boffin" in software programing ( I like to brag about it ) he got the Modbus protocol for the growatt and for Seplos, the BMS that LBSA uses in theyre battery. The info for the load shedding is pulled out from Eskom site and the cloud cover from some weather site. Herewith some of the info we get from the battery BMS.

 

52 minutes ago, Antonio de Sa said:

@system32 First let me tell you I am BC ( before computers ) All the info I get from my inverters and battery was programed and constructed by my son, he is a "boffin" in software programing ( I like to brag about it ) he got the Modbus protocol for the growatt and for Seplos, the BMS that LBSA uses in theyre battery. The info for the load shedding is pulled out from Eskom site and the cloud cover from some weather site. Herewith some of the info we get from the battery BMS.

Thanks for the feedback.
Grafana is a fantastic visualisation &  dashboarding tool - I often get ideas from other dashboards.

Edited August 18, 20224 yr by system32

On 2022/08/16 at 4:59 PM, Antonio de Sa said:

Here is mine I see we all had a bad day on the third of August.

2 growatt 5000 ES --- 12 X  410 Kw panels ---2 strings of 6 each

Not worried about cycle count LBSA batteries BMS has a stupid way of counting cycles.

Updated my dashboard with some of the ideas from your dashboard - thanks:

Cycles = Number of Load Shedding Events
4th Aug 2022 Load Shedding Cycles
   06:49 - 07:57
   14:01 - 15:52
   22:05 - 00:00 (actually 00:06)
5th Aug 2022 Load Shedding Cycles
   00:00 - 00:06
   12:06 - 14:01
   20:02 - 21:51

CoJ seems to have a timekeeping problem

Edited August 21, 20224 yr by system32