According to the wi-fi dongle on the solar array’s inverter my system produced 4 kWh of electricity in the afternoon only. This is because it was installed in the morning & only activated at 12:45 pm.
According to the blurb issued with the product, I can expect it to produce an average of 3.6 kWh daily throughout the year in this locality.
The sky was mostly overcast today, reducing the efficiency significantly.
So it a looks quite promising.
With the recent closure of a brown coal powerplant, power customers have been warned they might suffer power outages if the draw on the system is excessive on hot days due to air conditioner usage.
The solar array fitted to my roof this morning would be at its most efficient under such weather conditions. Household power use comes initially from the solar array, only drawing on the national grid when usage exceeds generation capacity.
So when I’m using my A/C in cooling mode most if not all of its electricity usage will be from the array. Much less likely to suffer a power outage.
Photovoltaic array of 9 cells installed on my roof today. Weather is overcast, season is early Autumn, time is mid-afternoon. The system inverter has its own wi-fi dongle so I can monitor power production which is currently (pun intended) 2.88 kW. Whist it is connected to the national power grid, I'm not getting any credits for it until my power supply company signs me up to a rebate plan which can only be done after the final electrical safety inspection.
So the home power usage comes first from the solar array and any excess above that comes in from the grid.
I'm doing a load of laundry at present to make use of the generation capacity.
FU Apple. Tried to burn an mp3 CD in iTunes, kept getting an error that some music couldn’t be burned because they were not in mp3 format. Most odd. I had used iTunes to convert them, they showed up as mp3 but in the playlist they were still showing as either purchased or matched aac files.
Easy solution (for me, at least). Out comes the 2005 G4 12” PowerBook. Imported the required music via USB stick. Made a new playlist & burned it to a CD. No problems at all.
#OldStuffCanBeSuperiorToNew
@matigo Wait. There's a rumour getting about of a reduced-price (possibly Retina) MacBook Air in the works. That said, performance-wise, the MacBook Air trails the MacBook.
// @hazardwarning
@JeremyCherfas My mother was the second of six kids, when she announced to her parents that she wanted to stay on at high school until 6th form, her mother asked where the money to support that would come from.
He replied: I already work 6 days per week, I'll just take another job on that last day.
// @hazardwarning
@bazbt3 I recently signed up with the motor registration & licencing authority's online services, in future I'll be able to choose 3, 6 or 12 month car registration periods. These help spread the financial load by separating car insurance & registration costs by several months rather than having to stump up for the lot in one hit.
I found a new use for the Brussels sprout!
It's the answer to one of the security questions: "Which is your least favourite vegetable?"
@JeremyCherfas My mother's father (a wounded veteran of the trenches in France in WW1) was a linotype operator in a newspaper in a small inland city in Victoria, Oz. Each working day he'd cycle from home to the main office & set up the paper there before riding 10 miles northeast to set up the smaller local edition there. Then a trip on the bike of another 35 miles to yet another satellite edition in another town that needed doing.
He'd sustained a leg wound in 1916 and had a slight permanent limp thereafter. He said sometimes he was just too tired & sore to manage the 25 mile ride back to the home town and would catch the train back.
// @hazardwarning
Last week's trial of a loaf of oat sourdough bread has me wanting more of it. I need to find more sales outlets.