Winter solar sucks lol

[Nesting Zombie]

Well, it’s a success for both of us today then Trev

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Boys and their batteries, ey?

 

[Nesting Zombie]

OI,
I need SOOTHING positive in my life at the moment Marie

 

[mariesnowgoose]

OI,
I need SOOTHING positive in my life at the moment Marie

You're telling me! Understatement of the year that !!!!

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Special doughnuts....

 

[st3v3]

Woke up to a nice day, so pulled the EHU plug. Currently keeping up with demand.

 

[trevskoda]

Boys and their batteries, ey?

We dont use them for nighttime toys.

 

[harrow]

It's 0930 and bright-ish. 60W from an array just over 500W

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Not enough lol. What are you getting?

The angle of the dangle would make a big difference with the sun being so low, but in practical terms its not easy getting the wife up on the roof

 

[trevskoda]

Park up on the kerb tilting roof into the sun.

 

[Markd]

I’ve only got a cheap as chips Controller that doesn’t show Amps, & to be fair, I generally go by what voltage is in the Battery rather than what amps I’m pulling in.
But this morning I started on 12,4 & at the moment I’ve got -
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BUT it’s been INSIDE a garage under Lights & a small opaque roof light in shed roof.

Sorry to be a pedant but an opaque roof light isn't a roof light at all!

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Sorry to be a pedant but an opaque roof light isn't a roof light at all!

No Problem, You can be whatever you feel comfortable in being, your amongst good people here

 

[st3v3]

Sooo, what will I get today? 0900 and it's just about breaking even.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

It’s like playing the Lottery isn’t it

 

[Nesting Zombie]

St3V3,
Would it be possible to maybe ‘Draw or Mark’ that diagram into more ‘Dummy Explanation’ of what’s happening some members might find useful.

Or Not

 

[st3v3]

Bottom left: battery. 12.7V, and the current reading is what's in, or if a negative number, out of the battery. 0A right now.

That doesn't mean nothing is on, because the bottom right (PV charger) the solar panels are making 50W.

That's being used by some 12V DC stuff, the bottom middle 36W. That's the monitoring things and camera's at the moment.

The rest of the 50W the solar is making is going to the inverter and being turned into 230V AC (17W top right) that is powering a 24V battery charger that is looking after the engine batteries.

It has looked at all the power that has come out over night when the sun was down and it knows how big the batteries are, so it calculates that 86.7% of the batteries is left.

Hope that makes sense

 

[st3v3]

Now a bit more sun

And you can see some current is going into the batteries (1.2A)

 

[Obanboy666]

5 amps going into battery bank @12.30 on Teesside from 220 watts of panels.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Beautiful Bright & Sunny Hot day.
As you might expect My leisure battery is Full, My Phone is Full, I’m charging all my internal Battery lights & done 5 so far with 3 to go, Then it’s my Torch to Charge & then finally top my phone up again to take FULL advantage of days like today-

There we go, Another light charged, So on to the next one -

 

[xsilvergs]

100watts from a 120watt polycrystalline panel which is tilted to the sun. That's with a Victron MPPT controller and in Dorset.

 

[xsilvergs]

So bright I can't see to type!