Fathers day! What better day to install solar racking. Here are some progress shots. The first step was working out the spacing of the feet. My first attempt wasn’t so successful. I was using this spacing method: Foot – 5 empty Ridges – Foot – 4 empty Ridges – Repeat It became obvious using this…
We are in Week 8 of Covid lockdown and I wanted something to do on the weekends and as I haven’t done much on my power wall of late I figured adding more solar would be a good small project. My shed currently has 12 panels and the lean-to has enough room for 6 panels….
I wanted to balance all 14 cells so I created a makeshift wiringloom that allowed me to create effectively a 2S 147P battery. The cells were all fairly close, so the balancing current was low. It was dodgy. Next time I wont make it like this
Today was the first day we got real sunshine since connecting the 12 shed panels. Yay me – I’m in the 100A club now The above image shows the two new 150/35 MPPT’s combined into one ‘PV Charger’ – producing 2538w between them.
I have been working away at making the bus bars required to connect the new stacks. Here are some progress shots from various stages.
I started mounting the Victron 150/35 MPPT’s.
After a couple of months its become obvious I need more production. This summer has been wetter than usual, and production is probably down on average however I have not been close to filling my battery. It’s obvious to me I need more solar. I had always planned on adding some second-hand panels to my…
Up until today, I have only had an Energy Meter installed at the Grid. My Solar production data has not been available as its AC coupled and connected to the input side of the Victron. To get production data into Victron I required an energy meter specifically to measure production. Without production data, Victron cannot…
Today I temporarily connected the MultiPlus II to the Sub Board in my shed (Phase L1) with 6mm electrical cable and turned it on. The inverter came to life and started supplementing my usage perfectly as it should. Below is a screen shot of what my Enphase graph looks like with the battery.. The consumption…