Almost. 1st of the year, pretty please?

JRHill
JRHill Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭✭
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@ 96.4% for solar for the day. Just a little more?!? Maybe if I hadn't done 2 loads on the extra heavy duty cycle? This is a celebratory thing each year to began transitioning from the nightly generator run. Absolutely a calendar item. Up to 10:04 of daylight now. Soon it will be summer drought and xxxF.

96.9 now... down the last bit of the home stretch (play music).
Off Grid. Two systems: 1) 2925w panels, OB VFXR3648, FM80, FNDC, Victron BMV-712, Mate3s, 240 xformer, four SimpliPHI 3.8; 2) 780w, Morningstar 30a, Grundfos switch, controller and AC/DC pump, 8 T105. Honda EU7000is w/AGS. Champion 3100. HF 4550, Miller Bobcat.
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  • SumPower
    SumPower Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭
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    Glad that the sun is finally shining on your panels. Lets hope it continues with little cloud cover!
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  • SumPower
    SumPower Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭
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    Hoping for that 100% and charge parameters met again today. First day with no clouds for a couple of weeks, and seeing blue sky during sunrise as it cleared the mountain that causes a shadow on our solar panels until aprox 9:00am through mid February. Its like, this is the day the Lord has made! I usually get to coast for the rest of the year after seeing the sun above that mountain. 
    Looking squarely at that full battery charge minus a generator run for the rest of the year! 
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  • JRHill
    JRHill Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭✭
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    SumPower said:
    Hoping for that 100% and charge parameters met again today. First day with no clouds for a couple of weeks, and seeing blue sky during sunrise as it cleared the mountain that causes a shadow on our solar panels until aprox 9:00am through mid February. Its like, this is the day the Lord has made! I usually get to coast for the rest of the year after seeing the sun above that mountain. 
    Looking squarely at that full battery charge minus a generator run for the rest of the year! 
    We were on the same wavelength this morning. The dogs woke me up at 6:30 and when I walked into the main room some trees out front looked like sun was hitting them. NO WAY. I stepped out on the porch and looked to the east and the sun was low behind some far clouds and it was the bright yellow cast I was seeing out front. Beautiful! I got the coffee water heating and looked out again, literally 3 minutes later and was fogged in as the clouds lifted out of the canyon.

    9:15 now and still foggy but I'm getting 600 watts from refraction.
    Off Grid. Two systems: 1) 2925w panels, OB VFXR3648, FM80, FNDC, Victron BMV-712, Mate3s, 240 xformer, four SimpliPHI 3.8; 2) 780w, Morningstar 30a, Grundfos switch, controller and AC/DC pump, 8 T105. Honda EU7000is w/AGS. Champion 3100. HF 4550, Miller Bobcat.
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  • JRHill
    JRHill Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭✭
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    The batteries were full by 12:30pm so yesterday was the first official full charge via solar. It's a bit late this year.  I celebrated by going to town and filling 30g into jugs for the genset. The genset will still be needed for those cloudy days until draught season starts.

    I've got a line on a diesel 2400rpm 6kW single cylinder genset that I may switch to for the future. I'm sick to death of paying road tax for gasoline and always have 100g on dyed diesel on hand. While other places around the country are paying $2.20 / gal, ours is twice that and the majority of the difference is road tax.
    Off Grid. Two systems: 1) 2925w panels, OB VFXR3648, FM80, FNDC, Victron BMV-712, Mate3s, 240 xformer, four SimpliPHI 3.8; 2) 780w, Morningstar 30a, Grundfos switch, controller and AC/DC pump, 8 T105. Honda EU7000is w/AGS. Champion 3100. HF 4550, Miller Bobcat.
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