I have some solar data trickling into the system…..
Right now the Opto controller is sitting on the outside lounge suite because Freddy has not yet chosen her seat/cupboard which it will be installed (hidden) into. Also there might be a network cable strung from the garage, through the kitchen, into the dining room, across the floor and up through a window in the lounge… oddly enough it comes out right near the outside lounge suite. What’s the chances of that?
At the moment I have nothing more than a few temperatures and the first panel voltage.
The grid tie inverter (and network cables) arrive this afternoon.
I will not have time to do anything with it before sun set, so it can all wait till Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Here is what I am seeing thus far.
Interesting because you can clearly see the solar panel voltage (yellow pen) drop as soon as the temperature of the panel goes up.
Not a lot. Around 2%, but also this is with no load. (The green line is amps, it’s at zero).
Check out that solar panel temperature…. we saw a max of 70.3C on the back of the panel (That’s 160F). Phew.
Anyway, just thought I would share it with you lot.
The Amazon order should get the power from one panel (255w) going into the system. I am working on the math to give me a number of how efficient the inverter is and of course I will have it sensored up so we will lots of data from it.
The other two panels (around 500 watts) will take a little longer to get going, but we will get there… In the mean time I have some software and groov graphics to get sorted.
