Done!
They arrived about 10am, and just left now about 6pm. Four guys doing the install. We have 10 panels, five on the front and five on the back of the roof so should get good coverage, and a 5.5kW lithium battery. Alas they finished as the sun was going down so there was barely time for it to charge, but the battery did charge to 20% while they were hooking things up to it. We also have an app to check everything.
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •- barely drawing any power, so I said we both had showers yesterday then I had a bath last night, and it heat up the water since then and once the water's hot it stays hot for a few days and doesn't use much power after, and he was amazed at that :D So yeah, we can just turn the geyser on to heat the water when the panels are in full sunlight.
The battery charges with a trickle from the grid when there's nothing coming from the panels, if the battery isn't full -
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •- but we can also turn that off, or tweak the settings, etc.
The app isn't quite real time but refreshes every 10 minutes or so, which is near enough real time for us to get good metrics of use from it :) (Or we can just look directly at the screen on the inverter, which is real time.)
The battery is set to never go lower than 20%. It's currently 25% and we have loadshedding at 8pm so we'll see how it does with the lights :)
Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •We're also just going into winter, and we have a mountain near us that shaves about 30-60 minutes off sunrise time in the mornings, then houses close behind us that hide the sun close to sunset, but also this is South Africa and even in winter it can be heckin' sunny most days. We don't have much rain forecast this week, a little bit Sunday morning and a bit Wednesday afternoon, with a 'partly cloudy' forecast throughout, so we'll see how it does. :D
I'm excited!
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Look at it gooo
It started at 7:40am when it was barely light out, making 11 little watts, now it's picking up :D
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Leebee
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in reply to Murad • • •Murad
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Ha!
Someone reading this in the government right now is going "wait a minute..."
Murad
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Murad • • •@ElHadjiMurad Jaco in work meeting this morning: "so yeah yesterday wasn't very productive what with the solar people here, but on the bright side -"
Me: -.-
Murad
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Firehorseart lives!
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •@ElHadjiMurad
Sunshine energy!
My house catches the sun most of the day. Ideally I'd have solar panels too.
I'd at least like portable solar to charge some devices.
Any suggestions (I'm in the UK)?
P s. I read this week that UK wind farms are now supplying slightly more energy than gas to the UK National Grid.
Rob Haines
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •This is all really cool to see, especially the breakdown!
We've got a small solar installation, but no battery or fancy visualisation, so I'm getting bright ideas ๐
Cont Bratula
in reply to Rob Haines • • •V, The Dragon Witch ๐
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •thanks for that :D
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •An interesting thing has happened. There's still sun on the back panels but it has stopped producing, more or less. The battery is staying full, though, and our consumption is a stable 400W. So it must be something that just stops it pulling in when there's excess that has nowhere to go, since it doesn't go back into the grid.
Edit: confirmed with solar peeps, yeah, if there's no load and the battery is full the panels won't produce ^.^
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in reply to Aegir ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Bryan Ginger
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •We went to bed at 10pm-ish, at which point the battery was 70%. At 7:30, when I got up, it was at 51% and the panels were just starting to produce again. ^.^
So - yay! We've got some leeway to do some extra stuff in the evenings, or on cloudy mornings :)
Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •This is fun, these are the fridge-freezer spikes :D
I had turned the temperature of the fridge-freezer colder to compensate for being off for a few hours several times a day during loadshedding (and stopped keeping things in the freezer entirely) - it was nice being able to turn it back to normal yesterday, AND now I can start keeping things in the freezer again: O
Zumbador
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •interesting!
I got myself a watt meter to check what my appliances need and now I'm low level obsessed.
Cont Bratula
in reply to Zumbador • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Much cloudier day today than yesterday, and a power hungry morning with the garden here running the strimmer which used up to 1kW-ish, in bursts. We've turned the grid trickle on to compensate just to help charge the battery until there's loadshedding at 12, then we'll turn it off and rely on solar.
We're producing about a third to a half of what we were yesterday with the extra clouds.
Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Despite it being much cloudier overall today, we produced more solar energy o.o It cleared up pretty well in the afternoon and we were almost producing at max capacity for a couple of hours.
As Jaco pointed out, this graph also nicely shows Eskom the middle finger XD
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Heavy rain overnight, and as the sun came up it was still drizzling a bit. We went to bed an hour later last night, and the battery was at 60% compared to the previous night's 70%, but getting up at the same time this morning, the battery was 45% so it drained less over night.
Not much production this morning due to the cloud, but we were still out-producing the house's baseline needs (idling fridge/freezer and the air purifier) - consuming 34W and producing 50W :D
Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •And now at 8:40am we're producing 130W, which is just barely enough for the fridge/freezer, air purifier, *and* one of the desktop computers.
We've turned the grid trickle back on as it's forecast heavy cloud all day, just to recover the battery and while we make morning coffees.
Elias Mรฅrtenson
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in reply to Elias Mรฅrtenson • • •Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •I think so yes, but also sometimes the low fog from the Atlantic that covers the City Bowl, or the edges of the table cloth when it gets big.
It always strikes me just how much crisper the light seems when I visit Som West. Now we have data! ๐
Cont Bratula
in reply to Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Trying something new today. Instead of only running the hot water heater to heat it up fully then turning it off until the next day, we're keeping it turned on, because when it's not heating it actually uses zero electricity.
Points described in the alt-text. You can see that once the water is done heating the heater doesn't use power, and now our production (blue) is high above consumption. Need to see how often the geyser turns on to heat the water again, and how long it takes.
Zacharias Fuchs
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in reply to Zacharias Fuchs • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Forgot to include the reasoning and I just replied this to someone else so I'll put it here too -
My thinking behind doing it this way is, if it needs to stay on for 1-2 hours to fully heat the whole tank from cold, the high power usage outstrips what the solar can manage. But by keeping it constantly on such that it only needs to reheat for brief bursts, it's a more manageable power draw that the solar can cope with.
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Around this point, I put all my power-banks and other rechargeable batteries to charge.
Also, good time to heat the water instead of first thing in morning?
Cont Bratula
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in reply to Dan Moved to Retro.social • • •Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื
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in reply to Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Solar has been 'fun' today.
We woke up to about 25% battery, which is fine - the geyser came on overnight to heat the water tank and used battery power, but we wanted it to do that to see how much it used, so this is good.
Charged the battery up to some 30%, solar production was great, then Jaco turned the coffee machine on and I guess we under-estimated how much battery it would eat, and it shut off at point 1 at 0%. (Continued in alt text)
Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค
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in reply to Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค • • •Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค
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in reply to Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค • • •Andreas Gohr
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in reply to Andreas Gohr • • •Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •not sure what kind of inverter / battery set-up you have but ours did the same โ would suddenly shut off at lower percentages when we though there should still be plenty of juice left to cover our usage.
On ours it turned out that there was a cutout low voltage which needed to be changed because it was set too high on the inverter (i.e our batteries can cope with lower than the inverterโs default setting).
Iโll try to find the video that helped me.
Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
in reply to Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •here you go: youtu.be/UQPtwkWgpEQ
(Hopefully yours has similar option somewhere).
I checked the recommended minimum voltage on our battery manufacturerโs site and then set accordingly. And weโve never had that problem again.
Battery bms and restart voltage
YouTubeCont Bratula
in reply to Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •collapsed to zero which didnโt make sense because there would be no way that what had been on could have consumed % that was left.
But then it would jump straight back up after a bit of Eskom charge (which is when the voltage reaches the threshold I guess).
Cont Bratula
in reply to Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Got the oven on today for the first time since getting solar. Slow-cooking a casserole on low for a few hours. The spikes at the start are the oven getting up to temp, and it was turned off a couple of times for Jaco to run the coffee machine (not to draw too much power), but once it got to temp it's been idling at a very low power use ^.^
We haven't had the grid on all morning and our battery is still charging even with this load.
Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค
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in reply to Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค • • •Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Cont Bratula
in reply to Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค • • •@efi Aye, see mastodon.social/@stefanf28/110โฆ - we'll be inputting the correct voltage values for our battery later on ^.^
Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
2023-05-23 19:42:02
Efi (nap pet) ๐ฆ๐ค
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Tim Panton
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Fans of this thread may want to have a listen to a podcast episode we did on this install
distributedfutu.re/episode84.hโฆ
(transcript available too if you prefer)
It was quite the eye opener for me.
Distributed Future - a podcast
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in reply to Belle (she/her) • • •avatastic :enby_rebel:
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in reply to Lance • • •Cecilia Mjausson Huster
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •That is exciting! No more load shedding for you. Maybe if enough solar is deployed, there is less need for load shedding? It's strange that a country that has such ample sunshine needs it at all.
We have a similar climate here in the SF Bay Area and I would love to get solar on my roof too.
Konstantin :bheartrainbow:
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in reply to Konstantin :bheartrainbow: • • •Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •If done right, your hot water heater is just one more place to store energy.
A lot of the apartment blocks I visited in China had solar water heaters on the roof. It didn't get the water quite to shower temps, but a lot warmer than the tap. They had small electric flash vaporizers on the showers themselves.
Cont Bratula
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in reply to Alan Tupper, Alleged Artist • • •Stefan Ferreira ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •congratulations!
I really enjoyed the process of figuring out how to get the most of our set-up. Lots of checking graphs and figuring out when best to run more energy m hungry things. But when you get that balance right life is sweet.
Iโm sure you wonโt miss loadshedding ๐
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Cont Bratula • •@WelshPixie, ShadowFigure I was afraid that their grid was in such a bad situation that they couldn't use solar panels in the home to get help adding more power to the grid.
Or at least, I hope that's the reason, and not the other one I can think of (MOAR corruption and bad management).
Cont Bratula
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •@valhalla
Here is a Wikipedia article about that:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_meteโฆ
type of billing of electricity generated from renewable sources
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Unknown parent • • •Kev
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Wait
does this mean that birbweb will be 24/7? It's free? It no longer exists, subservient to the whims of the boys at South Africa Eskom, who do be shedding their loads all over the place?
Cont Bratula
in reply to Kev • • •@alisca yes :O
:O :O :O
JoViKo Wi
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Unknown parent • • •@mindfog yes :D :D
We don't have loadshedding until 8pm tonight so even if the geyser takes a dent out of the battery, it's still got time to charge again before sunset
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Unknown parent • • •Danny Day
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Unknown parent • • •@athairbirb Yeah, it's a modular system so if we need to we can stick another bappery on and it'll just increase our monthly repayment a bit :)
And yeah - the first day we had it, it was a mostly clear sunny day and we had the grid off for a full 24h. :D
Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื
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in reply to Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื • • •Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •I meant the physical size as I was thinking about how much space we need. :)
Thanks a lot about the hint regarding the company, since there are so many out there a recommendation is worth a lot..
Cont Bratula
in reply to Stephan Lichtenauer | ื ื ืกืชื • • •@hnygd Apparently they are 2094 x 1038 x 35mm :D
GoSolr do packages that start at a minimum size, and I think it's eight panels smallest (we chucked an extra two on, we have 10). Then they outsource the installation to accredited solar installers in the area. So if their smallest package is too big for you, it might be worth asking them who they go through to see if they can provide something smaller ^.^
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Cont Bratula • •@WelshPixie, ShadowFigure how is the photo going to help? we don't know how big your house is, it could be 60 cm tall, if it's sized for pixies :D
(sorry, not sorry)
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Unknown parent • • •Rรญ Rua
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •that's impressive! my folks have a solar set up too but I am unsure how much they are able to mess about with it, so I am quite interested in how you're managing.
Summer will be interesting to see how that goes!
Cont Bratula
in reply to Rรญ Rua • • •@athairbirb I anticipate that in summer our solar production will be 'through the roof', ohohoho :D
There's a bunch of paramaters we can play with on the inverter but we haven't touched it, just left it at the params they installed it with. We can also add on batteries and panels if we need to.
Cont Bratula
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Unknown parent • • •Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
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Unknown parent • • •For Pete's Sake
Unknown parent • • •That''s not ideal as we have flats right behind the house but would still get ample sunlight over the course of a day. However we could put a few panels on the roof of the annex, have the battery in there too and hook into the mains for the house. There's already electrical connections from the annex to the main house. That may need upgrading though
Still, got loads on our ToDo list before then. New Kitchen (and new boiler), New Bathroom and underfloor heating!
Cont Bratula
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in reply to Cont Bratula • • •Thomas
in reply to Zฬoรฉ โต • • •@uint8_t @wmd Yeah, the grid will definitely accept it in the narrow, technical sense. If it's not illegal, you might consider doing so if you find yourselves with excess production.
Do you have modern digital metres or the old kind that turn? Sometimes the older ones will turn backwards if you inject into the grid, which would even be financially interesting
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in reply to Edward Gomez • • •@zemogle Yeah, even on cloudy days our generation in winter is high enough to cover our base load (two computers, fridge, air purifier) then we just pull from the grid for the hungry things like the coffee machine.
I'm excited because it's the solstice today and thus begin our journey to becoming power barons in the summer XD
Griff Ferrell
in reply to Cont Bratula • • •That is so cool, srsly jealous. I want solar, but we have ~75 yo oaks to the south of the house. So lots of shade, no direct sun on our roof-ever. They also lean away from the house.
So low aircon cost, but I wanna join the solar club
I haz a sad - sad lol
Cont Bratula
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