Solar panels….?

[jowwy]

You do know it's now going to rain for 40 days and nights ! Always one.

We are in wales fossy…….

 

[kipster]

We are in wales fossy…….

Well the positive is with the rain you'll get the panels will stay clean

 

[jowwy]

All finished…….just need to set-up the growatt monitoring app now.

 

[fossyant]

We are in wales fossy…….

Have you seen the forecast ! I'm in Wales this weekend and it's going to be wet ! Probably extra Welsh Wet now you've got solar !

 

[Milkfloat]

All finished…….just need to set-up the growatt monitoring app now.

If you are like me you are monitoring and tweaking continually. Fingers crossed that once Octopus finally confirm that my export is being paid that I can simply leave it on one setting.

 

[jowwy]

Have you seen the forecast ! I'm in Wales this weekend and it's going to be wet ! Probably extra Welsh Wet now you've got solar !

You will be ok fossy…..

 

[CXRAndy]

Yeh it is….lost out on some seriously good solar days over the last fortnight. But all good now

No point dwelling on missed benefits. Bask in the knowledge of future savings on what looks like ever increasing energy costs

 

[irw]

All done!

Not quite sure why the second one came out so dark...literally took it two minutes after the first!

Just waiting for them to do the necessary behind the scenes stuff to get the app working now!

 

[CXRAndy]

You're taking a picture into the sun direction. Everything is will be darker due to iris closing more. You could edit and over expose the photo settings

 

[jowwy]

My app is all fired up and working now....happy bunny, if only it wasn't grey and raining @fossyant fault for coming to wales for a break lol

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Don't believe everything the Shineapp tells you, it's not the best but gives a good all round view, sort of.

 

[jowwy]

Don't believe everything the Shineapp tells you, it's not the best but gives a good all round view, sort of.

yeh i notice already its different to what my smart meter is telling me, but it will help to give me a view of what's happening.

I'm thinking of setting the app up on my spare tablet and having it downstairs in the kitchen, so i can see what's happening when using cooker, washing machine etc etc

 

[kipster]

yeh i notice already its different to what my smart meter is telling me, but it will help to give me a view of what's happening.

I'm thinking of setting the app up on my spare tablet and having it downstairs in the kitchen, so i can see what's happening when using cooker, washing machine etc etc

The data only updates every 5 minutes so I find it's not all that helpful for what's happening realtime

 

[jowwy]

The data only updates every 5 minutes so I find it's not all that helpful for what's happening realtime

yeh i noticed its a bit slow....

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I'm trying to work out if it would now be cost effective to get a 2nd battery, I can see a single battery being fine during the summer months, but going forward now the battery is getting 100% charged during the day but being drained quite a bit whilst the evening meal is being cooked, which then does not have time to recover as the sun has already gone down.