GoSolr vs Solar

Dolby said:
Single at the time though ?

I've kept a record of units used (I'm OCD sometimes) and it seems my monthly average when I was single was 386 (including winter) - so 12 per day
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Nope, wife and kid with now 5 dogs :). I used to use at most 750units in summer cause of the pool pump needing to run more, in winter with it running only 4 hours or so it was 600 to 650, with solar at most I've used was 360 thanks to cloudy December, this may it's so far 300.
Back in our townhouse we got away with 250 a month, when myself and my wife were living together in a 3 bedroom house by ourselves it was about 250 as well, I was paying more on the network connection fees. When we first moved out we used 130 units.
 
Lupus said:
Nope, wife and kid with now 5 dogs :). I used to use at most 750units in summer cause of the pool pump needing to run more, in winter with it running only 4 hours or so it was 600 to 650, with solar at most I've used was 360 thanks to cloudy December, this may it's so far 300.
Back in our townhouse we got away with 250 a month, when myself and my wife were living together in a 3 bedroom house by ourselves it was about 250 as well, I was paying more on the network connection fees. When we first moved out we used 130 units.
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Unreal .

I thought I was pretty good with my energy consumption ...
 
Could be battery charge but you only got a 2.5 so it really shouldnt use more than 2.5-3kwh for a full charge. And its a "closed" system so even if you charge, it should be discharging. I lose maybe 100w/h differance in a day between charge/discharge.
 
Dolby said:
Unreal .

I thought I was pretty good with my energy consumption ...
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Apparently I am a little obsessive. Small things like leaving your amp on and such can seem a little 20w here and there but it adds up.
 
Lupus said:
Apparently I am a little obsessive. Small things like leaving your amp on and such can seem a little 20w here and there but it adds up.
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TV and Soundbar in standby mode are like 100w. Even my pc 5.1 set noms a bit more than I would have though.
 
Kosmik said:
TV and Soundbar in standby mode are like 100w. Even my pc 5.1 set noms a bit more than I would have though.
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Something isn't right there, my OLED and soundbar in standby are like 5w, my Series X is 20w.
I can actually get my soundbar and OLED to 100w when on if I fiddle and don't mind being in a really dark room :-)
 
I've learnt how to get a snapshot of current consuption on the Hexing prepaid metre and the last few hours I've done it, it checks out to my normal use

Idle was 0.250kw ... turn on the TV/soundbar ... jumpted to 0.5kw ... and hopped in the shower and went to 3.5kw ... so all as expected
 
Dolby said:
I've learnt how to get a snapshot of current consuption on the Hexing prepaid metre and the last few hours I've done it, it checks out to my normal use

Idle was 0.250kw ... turn on the TV/soundbar ... jumpted to 0.5kw ... and hopped in the shower and went to 3.5kw ... so all as expected
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So all good? Did you have any visitors? I know when my nieces visit electrical usage skyrockets
 
Dolby said:
I've learnt how to get a snapshot of current consuption on the Hexing prepaid metre and the last few hours I've done it, it checks out to my normal use

Idle was 0.250kw ... turn on the TV/soundbar ... jumpted to 0.5kw ... and hopped in the shower and went to 3.5kw ... so all as expected
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The inverter will give you better data when it comes online. But it won't see non-essentials unless you're feeding excess power to them (which you probably won't be), so it may be worth installing a killawatt anyway if this continues to be a problem...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
The inverter will give you better data when it comes online. But it won't see non-essentials unless you're feeding excess power to them (which you probably won't be), so it may be worth installing a killawatt anyway if this continues to be a problem...
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Was going to say, it could be something on the non-essentials as that is a black box to the inverter. It doesnt track that consumption ( you could in theory but not in any integration I've seen directly with the inverter ). The only accumulative and dailies are around Load, Grid, Battery and Production.
 
Dolby said:
As a small consumption household going solar works out way too expensive, our electricity bill was R1800pm, now we pay about R500 to eskom , R1740pm to Gosolar, there are other charges involved like getting a bi-direction meter R6500 in my case and you are forced to insure the system at roughly R290pm so all in all now we paying R2530pm and Eskom is proposing a fixed charge of R938pm for all electricity users even if your consumption is zero which will take my monthly payment to just under R3000.
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Great to get this often hidden info from an end user on the renting Gosolr option vs buying your system. I would be most interested to hear any thoughts on this subject when it comes to larger household consumers. With the current load shedding, our monthly bill is about R6.5K so close to R8K with out. Just wondering on the rental option vs installing our own system with quotes starting at R300K ?
 
So, yesterday I’m sitting at 27 of which the geyser was close to 13 . Meaning the rest of the house was 14 over the 24hrs.

I know that’s high for some ;) and I do agree something looks wrong … but it works out to what I used to pay.

As soon as I’m live with this solar, I’ll seriously focus on reducing
 
Dolby said:
So, yesterday I’m sitting at 27 of which the geyser was close to 13 . Meaning the rest of the house was 14 over the 24hrs.

I know that’s high for some ;) and I do agree something looks wrong … but it works out to what I used to pay.

As soon as I’m live with this solar, I’ll seriously focus on reducing
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You gonna have to
 
14 over 24 hours is not a lot. That's 580w/h , pretty reasonable normal usage.

Geysers are a *****, more than my stove on my daily usage. Seriously considering either later or when it pops to switch to gas. Especially if you use the water multiple times a day.
 
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Speedster said:
One day, before I die, myBB forumites will understand fundamental electrical theory.
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Its an average on the assumption that its constant which we know its not. 580W/h simply means that there was a constant draw of 580W for an entire hour. There's nothing wrong with that assumption.

Maybe constant mean draw is better phrased.
 
Kosmik said:
Its an average on the assumption that its constant which we know its not. 580W/h simply means that there was a constant draw of 580W for an entire hour. There's nothing wrong with that assumption.

Maybe constant mean draw is better phrased.
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The concept of watt per hour doesn't exist / is hardly ever used. If it did, it would be a rate of acceleration. I guess one could say my solar pv production increases at 300w/h until noon and then decreases at the same rate thereafter. That would make sense.

In your example of consistent draw one could say 580Wh/h and, maths being maths, the h/h would cancel themselves out leaving 580W. Power is always indicated by watts. Energy is watt-hours.

You can't use a watt over time, the concept is undefined. You can only use a watt-hour over time.
 
Speedster said:
The concept of watt per hour doesn't exist / is hardly ever used. If it did, it would be a rate of acceleration. I guess one could say my solar pv production increases at 300w/h until noon and then decreases at the same rate thereafter. That would make sense.

In your example of consistent draw one could say 580Wh/h and, maths being maths, the h/h would cancel themselves out leaving 580W. Power is always indicated by watts. Energy is watt-hours.

You can't use a watt over time, the concept is undefined. You can only use a watt-hour over time.
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Hmmm ok the notation is hard to describe but the notion is the same, whether I use 580wh or 1kwh, its the equivalent of how much it would take to consistently use 1kw, during the time of a hour. Not sure what that consistency is though ie: per minute or per second etc.

I would assume that the basic electricity disk meter uses some form of current measurement across a resistive medium to run its counter, same as a CT measures the current.

My point to Dolby though is that if he monitors the drain on his system when it's "resting" ( so basic use like fridges, lights , tvs etc that pretty constant ) , it would give an indicator for as you say, the energy use over time. 580wh is not a unreasonable amount considering thats a average and there would be odd peaks ( outside of big draw items ) like a kettle, microwave etc that may spike but just cause a slightly higher reading in the hour and smoothed out over the period of a day.
 
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