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Holy smokes! My solar system keeps surprising me. Today I was greeted with over 900W peak!

It spent quite a few minutes above the panel rating (810W for the two in series) during the peak hours.

I never expected such good performance from the system I've put together. It just blows my mind! In really looking forward to getting the other two panels installed and hooked into the system! I hope the weather will cooperate soon. It's been clear most of the week and then raining on the weekends. 😐🙄😝

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Nomad Joe 1y ago

Outside temperature can impact performance. Cold weather is best 😁

The Beave 1y ago

It was nearly the warmest day of the year today. I had spikes on colder temps, but, not like this!

Adeptus 1y ago

Nice!

Better than anticipated is good.

I've been pleasantly surprised with the one I put together as well.

The Beave 1y ago

What's your setup? My basic list is:

2 REC 405W panels in series

2 MPP solar 3048LV-MKs set up to run 240V split phase

1 Victron autotransformer

1 5kWh DIY "48V" battery pack with a JK BMS

I need way more battery. 😅

Adeptus 1y ago

I originally got a pretty good deal on a Solar Edge inverter

(can't say I would recommend them, they really don't take Sonoran desert heat all that well)

Batteries are my next step, but I don't have any storage yet.

The pv array is made up of (now discontinued) 350w longi units.

There's a lot I'll change if I do it again, but this was the first one I've tried. A friend of mine is using Victron. He seems to be happy.

it does cover almost 75 percent of my annual electrical usage which is more than I had originally calculated. We'll see what our does at the end of a decade.

The Beave 1y ago

That's pretty great if it's covering that much of your usage.

Victron is really good stuff, and some of it is even really well priced.