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Offline fourtytwo42Topic starter

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Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« on: November 19, 2024, 08:51:58 am »


Funny white stuff on the panels -



Don't know why MPPT is not coping with it  ;)
 

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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2024, 09:23:02 pm »
Your MPPT tracker seem to be malfunctioning. Correctly working MPPT algorithm would relocate you to to Spain or Chile.  ;D
 
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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2024, 12:21:59 pm »
Fantastic idea, I will see if I can locate some teleporter hardware to add to the inverter  :clap:
 

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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2024, 11:22:49 am »
Got some production today through a thick layer of snow  :box:
 

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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2024, 11:52:56 am »
Clear the panels from snow at first.

Your MPPT tracker seem to be malfunctioning. Correctly working MPPT algorithm would relocate you to to Spain or Chile.  ;D

Should be redundant now. By some popular news sources almost all UK natives already relocated to Spain.
 
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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2024, 12:18:37 pm »
parially shaded panels are tricky. It is not so much teh MPP tracker, but how they have diodes to react to partial shading. Often it is 1 diode for sevels cells and once 1 cell of the section is shaed the whole section is bybassed by the diode. You have beeen unlucky with 1 diode per vertical row and thus all sections partially shaded.
 

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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2024, 05:21:38 pm »
Got some production today through a thick layer of snow  :box:
Let me guess, Orange is production right ? shame it is not the other way around  ;)
I think I got the lowest total so far this year today 0.136Kwh  :-DD
 

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Re: Solar production a bit low here in UK midlands
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2024, 05:25:05 pm »
parially shaded panels are tricky. It is not so much teh MPP tracker, but how they have diodes to react to partial shading. Often it is 1 diode for sevels cells and once 1 cell of the section is shaed the whole section is bybassed by the diode. You have beeen unlucky with 1 diode per vertical row and thus all sections partially shaded.
Yup we don't often have a choice with orientation, in my last house I had some pesky phone wires going past the roof and because they hit all the columns of cells they ruined the output, fortunately only in winter when the sun was low in the sky. The cost of getting them moved was astronomic!
 


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