Recent content by Bigvanish

I hear you!, in the summer we have a low demand of about 200w per hour over night and a small turbine would be ideal to cover these needs until the suns up. I purchased a book titled "Wind Energy for the rest of us", Its incredibly detailed but at a level an amateur can follow. It looks at...

I have spent a long time researching that also!, I would love to supplement the system with some wind input. I need to allow my finances to recover first. A lot of forums saying they just end up as expensive weather vanes....

Eeek, hopefully by then the obsession with monitoring Kw's will have subsided...

Well the arrays been mounted. Still have to tidy the wiring up a little but she's making electricity. Surprised just how high the output rises on a bright sunny day. Not so productive on a grey rainy day unfortunately.

Thanks very much. I am hopeful she wont blow away anytime soon!

Brilliant, thanks very much for the info.👍

PS, For the qualified installers out there, what's your thoughts on the metal conduit clips around the black plastic conduit, from an earthing point of view?. At present the main galvanised conduit, carrying the PV cables into the garage is earthed back to the consumer unit at the main garage...

And the garage side wired up. I hope to get a sparky in for a look over everything to make sure its safe and wont set my garage on fire!

Thanks for the link mate. I think that would save a hell of a lot of work!. I think if there's any more upgrading in the future it would be an additional 4.8kw battery. This would allow us to run over night, completely on batteries (based solely on house current overnight demand. I will see if...

lots of hours went into this 🥹

And some photos of the ground mounting frame. It is still to be sheeted and flashings added but you get the idea!

That’s a great tool, thank you. thanks for the heads up on the Easy Pv tool. I had a play and it’s a really straight forward tool to use. In terms of the the temperature calculations. My inverter is a Solis 6kw hybrid inverter with a maximum DC input voltage from the PV Array of 600v and...

Thanks for the well wishes!. In terms of the voltage drop. The 10 panels are ground mounted out in the field where there hopefully should be zero issues with shade . According to the datasheet each panel has an maximum operating voltage of 50v and 12 amps. They will be connected in series and...