@matigo Yet to establish a feed-in tariff with the power company. But my presumed savings are being applied to an interest-free line of credit to pay off the installation cost over 50 months. The first fortnightly payment was made today.
@hazardwarning Under View on the menubar you have “Customize Toolbar.” One of the options is marked with the letter A twice in succession, one letter being larger than the other. Drag that onto the toolbar. That’s your font size adjuster. Also under View is an option to zoom text only or text & graphics.
// @JeremyCherfas
As of Thursday evening a week ago, the newly-installed solar array had produced 4 kWh of ‘lectricity. Now, exactly a week later, that figure is 84 kWh. Which equates to 11.4 kWh per day, most of which have been overcast.
Prior to the installation the previous three Tuesdays I’d bought in an average of $1.72 worth of power each day. Tuesday this week I imported $0.52 worth.
Briefly, I imported 30% of my normal Tuesday power usage instead of all of it.
So on weekends the power supply company doesn’t update the usage on their website, so I won’t know until the next update (Monday around noon) how much power I didn’t consume from the national grid on Sat or today.
Real-time monitoring of the inverter itself via its Wi-Fi dongle shows the system produced 39 kWh since being activated on Thursday afternoon.
@matigo what you realize after a while is that "important" people aren't that much different from anyone else. They're also, like most people, likely faking it. :)
@matigo Not so in the case of coffee or tea. The caffeine content is very mildly diuretic but it’s effect is insignificant re dehydration. http://time.com/5192272/coffee-tea-dehydrating/
// @hybotics
@matigo Don’t be daft. That sort of thing doesn’t happen. The deal with the present energy supplier is the feed-in tariff is about ½ the cost of power.
The arrangement is you don’t save money by feeding back into the grid. You save by using the solar power itself and not taking much in from the grid.
@matigo No battery. Can be fitted but isn’t necessary. A retired engineer friend with a much larger property & garage (best inverter location) has a pair of ex-telephone exchange battery racks. Each cell is a 2 volt lead-acid monster bigger than a normal car battery.
I don’t need the added expense of a battery.