Solar - was Contemplating house rewiring - advice?

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,=0D
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Welcome to wonderful world of micro generation =E2=98=BA What panels have
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ou had installed and how big an array is it?=0D
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We had 21 suntech panels (21 x 190w =3D 3.99KWh) installed on out NW
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roof, and so far they seem to be performing 20% better than the installati=
on estimate. We=E2=80=99re fortunate in that we installed last year while
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he FiTs payments where higher (43.3p a KWh) so our FiTs payments so far
(5t=
h August 2011 =E2=80=93 31 October 2012) have totalled =C2=A31391.74, and
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hat=E2=80=99s without taking into account any actual savings on
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imported.=0D
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I wish our house idled at 300Wh even overnight ours still sucks 600-660Wh
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f electricity. On a dull winters day our panels definitely won=E2=80=99t
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nerate enough to cover that. During November our total daily estimate is
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ly 1.3KWh (the panels face North West remember)=0D
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Are you uploading your generation figures to www.PVoutput.org ? If not I
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commend doing it as its very useful to see how much your actually
generatin=
g and keep track of things.  I use PVBeancounter to automatically grab my
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eneration figures from the Inverter (via Bluetooth although I plan to
chang=
e this to RS485 at some point) and upload them every 5 minutes. You can
see=
my outputs (and some photos of the install) at http://www.pvoutput.org/lis=
t.jsp?id=3D3777&sid=3D2970=0D
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If you have an Android phone then another cool app is Solar Analyser=0D
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=3Dde.sunics.solaranalyzerdemo=
&feature=3Dmore_from_developer#?t=3DW10.=0D
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Marcus=0D
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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J=
im=0D
Sent: 28 November 2012 09:57=0D
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=0D
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Contemplating house rewiring - advice?=0D
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Hi guys,=0D
I thought I'd jump in on your conversation about Solar.=0D
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My house faces mostly south, and I love my panels :)=0D
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even in these winter months (november IS winter) - I get a fair input.=0D