zsde Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 54 minutes ago, Scorp007 said: The joy of being in Gauteng in summer Today was an absolute beaut. Batteries full at 10, geyser at max temp at 10:30. What a delight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Bobster. said: Ja. I downgraded my 2nd geyser to a 2kw element. On good days like today I can heat it up in about 2 hours in the afternoons, without taking more power than the inverter can deliver IE I can heat it for free. What I do is stagger the main geyser (heat pump) and second geyser (element). The switch over is at 13:00 and 2 hours is enough to heat it to 55. So it's not hot all day. Heat pump goes to 60 in the summer. It draws about 1.2 kW and runs for about 45 minutes, so I can run that on the backed up circuits. Edited October 13, 2023 by Bobster. zsde 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Anthony Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 10 hours ago, Scorp007 said: The joy of being in Gauteng in summer. It keeps you on your toes. From 3 bad days to a all time daily high yield. It could even be higher if 40% of panels are not flat on the car port roof and the same panels get shade starting at about 12h30. Back to the +30 for me also…produced 35.2kWh yesterday Geysers were hot by 14:00, battery was full by 12:40…if I had more load after 14:00 I’m sure I would have hit 40kWh… zsde and Scorp007 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GVC Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 I have had 2 really bad days in the last month...Yesterday was a humdinger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio de Sa Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 7 minutes ago, GVC said: I have had 2 really bad days in the last month...Yesterday was a humdinger... Here is my system performance yesterday, by 10:30 AM battery fully charged, geyser done and dusted, the rest of the day what a waist. zsde, GVC, BritishRacingGreen and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritishRacingGreen Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Antonio de Sa said: Here is my system performance yesterday, by 10:30 AM battery fully charged, geyser done and dusted, the rest of the day what a waist. Love It! Grafana is pure truth Antonio de Sa and zsde 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GVC Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 So far another good production day in the making....Swambo is taking full advantage.... Screencast from 14-10-2023 09_23_57.webm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Yep. The middle of this week was not very productive. Scorp007 and zsde 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 The past few days have been all over the place.. Typical day: Using up all the electricity day: Today: At least there was some sunshine today to charge up batteries and take the load of some of the geysers. Tomorrow and Wednesday are looking great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp007 Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Muttley said: The past few days have been all over the place.. Typical day: Using up all the electricity day: Today: At least there was some sunshine today to charge up batteries and take the load of some of the geysers. Tomorrow and Wednesday are looking great! My forecast for Tuesday is quite a bit more than today for Gauteng but still low. Wednesday looks like normal sunshine. Today showed an amazing cloud edge output. Edited October 16, 2023 by Scorp007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio de Sa Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Scorp007 said: My forecast for Tuesday is quite a bit more than today for Gauteng but still low. Wednesday looks like normal sunshine. Today showed an amazing cloud edge output. My system in the Vaal Triangle, 4100 W of PV panels. dashboard the last three months, and so far this month. Not bad at all, a few cloudy and rainy days, still average 14 Kw from PV and 4 from grid. a bit bellow average my early is 15KW from PV, The dotted line indicates cloud cover. Edited October 16, 2023 by Antonio de Sa zsde 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 32 minutes ago, Scorp007 said: My forecast for Tuesday is quite a bit more than today for Gauteng but still low. Wednesday looks like normal sunshine. Today showed an amazing cloud edge output. Here's my Solcast forecast for the next few days: From the legend @slipx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp007 Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Muttley said: Here's my Solcast forecast for the next few days: From the legend @slipx I'm watching this with interest as this forecast is miles away from my forecast for tomorrow. Wednesday we seem to be on the same page Muttley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Strachan Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I have used 590 Kw of electricity from Eskom since the beginning of the year. 8kw Sunsynk 3 x Hubble am 2 6 kw panels and a geyserwise system plus gas hob zsde, Muttley and Antonio de Sa 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nicholas Strachan said: I have used 590 Kw of electricity from Eskom since the beginning of the year. 8kw Sunsynk 3 x Hubble am 2 6 kw panels and a geyserwise system plus gas hob Thanks. When I see figures like that, they drive home the power of the sort of installations we have. Over 4 years now, my average, including multi-day spells of bad weather, is about 2.15 kWh per day. If I put a timer before my main DB I could drive that down, because quite a bit of that each day is because my inverter turns off at night when the load is so small that it no longer wants to be bothered. But anyway, whenever I get the grumbles I should do the sums and remember that I now use in a year what I used to use in 2 months. An 84% reduction in my carbon footprint for power generation and to my bill. I should be happy. Edited October 17, 2023 by Bobster. sppeling zsde, Nicholas Strachan and Antonio de Sa 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 23 hours ago, Scorp007 said: I'm watching this with interest as this forecast is miles away from my forecast for tomorrow. Wednesday we seem to be on the same page Did 42.5kWh today - forecast was 47.7 - I think that if our load was higher today, we would've hit 47.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp007 Posted October 17, 2023 Author Share Posted October 17, 2023 47 minutes ago, Muttley said: Did 42.5kWh today - forecast was 47.7 - I think that if our load was higher today, we would've hit 47.... It turned out unbelievable good with the clouds around. Got double than yesterday but tomorrow I should get a new all time high. Peaks with cloud edge are much higher than recently. Muttley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 15 hours ago, Muttley said: Did 42.5kWh today - forecast was 47.7 - I think that if our load was higher today, we would've hit 47.... I know you have a lot of panels, but that's still very good production. Muttley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 57 minutes ago, Bobster. said: I know you have a lot of panels, but that's still very good production. Thanks so much... super super chuffed with the performance! Nicholas Strachan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 9 minutes ago, Muttley said: Thanks so much... super super chuffed with the performance! LOL. I'm wondering what a person is doing with all that electricity. It's literally 3 times what my household uses. Caveat: Just two adults in my house, heatpump for water heating, and full gas cooking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Bobster. said: LOL. I'm wondering what a person is doing with all that electricity. It's literally 3 times what my household uses. Caveat: Just two adults in my house, heatpump for water heating, and full gas cooking. Unfortunately, we're big consumers... 4 Adults, 1 baby, 3 geysers, dishwasher, Jojo pump, pool pump, too much networking equipment plus lots of cups of coffee during the day Trying to reduce evening load - worked out last night that I'm going to bypass the Jojo pump from 18:00 - 08:00 which should help. Edited October 18, 2023 by Muttley typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster. Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Muttley said: Unfortunately, we're big consumers... Well now you are big self generators. Your consumption of fossil fuel derived, smoke generating electricity is now very low. Edited October 18, 2023 by Bobster. spellling Muttley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_S Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 On 2023/10/14 at 7:21 AM, GVC said: I have had 2 really bad days in the last month...Yesterday was a humdinger... Is this home assistant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GVC Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Chris_S said: Is this home assistant? Nope, it is local Emoncms running on Ubuntu laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp007 Posted October 18, 2023 Author Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) 12 hours ago, Bobster. said: LOL. I'm wondering what a person is doing with all that electricity. It's literally 3 times what my household uses. Caveat: Just two adults in my house, heatpump for water heating, and full gas cooking. This is 4 times my normal use. We also 2 people. I recently had a chat with a guy who has to run a fish pond pump 24/7. That 1 item is using more power than what our household uses per day. Edited October 18, 2023 by Scorp007 Muttley and zsde 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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