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  1. Jack_Offard

    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    Another solid month! The Paarl heat is upon us, most of the import this month was during those warmer nights to help keep the batteries charged up during higher load-shedding stages.
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    W@P, made a booboo entering my October stats - please delete and I will submit it again. :X3: sorry!
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    Best month by a long shot, only had 5 days below 30kW PV production. +- 440kW better than September. Lots of sunshine and cooler temps, I left a fair bit on the table as well due to not having sufficient load requirements. Aircons, geysers, pool pump, oven - all running beautifully off my...
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    September is down on August, but less grid use which is a win! Had my best ever day yesterday, with 44kWh produced, still did not have enough load to use all PV.
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    Edge of cloud effect earlier this week, 8.26kW out of 7.5kWp array. Already overproducing with nice sunny days and cooler temps, will start running ACs during the day soon. Attached is some data from my CBI Astutes on geysers and pool pump. Geyser 1 is used in the main bedroom and washing...
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    Also a good month in Paarl. Had in the in-laws over for 2.5 weeks which meant extra geyser time and heating on cooler days. But very happy considering it was still a "winter" month.
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    Running out of load to use all PV generation/create a beautiful boob:) 2 x 150L 3kw electric geysers run to temp (set to 70 degrees if I remember correctly) Pool pump ran for 10 hours Oven used for an hour Pressure cooker used 4 x for cooking meat off of the Kudu bones (to make pies) The...
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    I was too eager and incorrectly completed my figures for August, and not July. Please delete, I will submit new stats for July. Sorry for the additional effort:rolleyes:
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    All in all, happy with how July turned out. After the past two months of training SWAMBO and our domestic, load has been reduced to efficient levels, that said, geysers and A/C were run without much hesitation which is where most of the import has gone to. Almost a 65% increase in PV...
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    What a crap last week of July here in the Winelands, doubled my grid import just in this last week! But to be fair, the rest of the month was not too bad:) I will post my final figures tonight.
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    Monthly Solar Production - Show us yours

    July is much better than June in the Western Cape (Paarl). I have just surpassed my total PV production for June this morning and looks like the forecast for the rest of July is not looking too bad:)
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    Paarl Solar Installation

    Jonker Industries - pretty happy with everything. As with all contractors, communication could be slightly better. But cost wise, etc., they were very fair. They are a father and son operation, did everything themselves, the old man did major PV farms in the NC before coming to help his son.
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    Paarl Solar Installation

    Hi Glenn, The system has performed exactly as hoped for so far: 8kw Sunsynk Inverter 2 x 5.12KWH Hubble AM-5's 15 x 500w JA Solar panels May was decent in terms of sunny days, produced 439kwh (10 x panels from 6 May - 17 May, 15 x panels 17 May - 31 May). Definitely not optimised as best I...
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    Full-day stage 6 load-shedding announced

    Did this this week
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    Paarl Solar Installation

    Update: Inverter, batteries and 10 of the 15 panels have were installed on Friday and are live. Balance to be installed on Wednesday (I am out of town Monday and Tuesday). First day of solar was (disappointingly) a very cloudy day here in Paarl, however, managed to use zero Eskom from 07:00...
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