Forgive me reader, it’s been over two years since I last blogged the annual performance of my solar panel. A photo this time rather than a screen shot as since I upgraded my computer I have been unable to re-download the software that would allow me to connect my new computer to the controller. This […]
Forgive me reader, it’s been over two years since I last blogged the annual performance of my solar panel. A photo this time rather than a screen shot as since I upgraded my computer I have been unable to re-download the software that would allow me to connect my new computer to the controller. This […]
Another year, another desperately late solar panel performance post. It’s been sitting on my to-do list since January 2nd, but at least writing this will let me tick off something today. 2013 has an ever so slight edge on 2012 so we’ll estimate the kWh as 3,800. Sadly once the year is over the more […]
Another year, another desperately late solar panel performance post. It’s been sitting on my to-do list since January 2nd, but at least writing this will let me tick off something today. So last year continued a downward trend that looks like it will be over by the end of 2013. At this stage in the […]
Another year, another desperately late solar panel performance post. It’s been sitting on my to-do list since January 2nd, but at least writing this will let me tick off something today. So last year was a little under the year before. At this stage in the year, the graph is the only source of information […]
It’s a bit rum writing a post about this so many months into 2011, but it is supposed to be an annual thing, after all! As the yearly data graph shows, despite feeling a little disappointing, last summer, or at least the year as a whole, provided more hot water through my solar evacuated tubes […]
A recent commenter asked this on an old post about installing my solar panel, and I spent a few minutes writing an answer. Rather than keep it buried in a comments thread on a post from years ago, I thought I would copy it here again. Alison – my most recent solar post is here. […]
I think I neglected my planned annual New Year’s post about my solar panel performance. ((I say annual, I think I’ve only managed it twice before.)) For much of the last year, I’ve not been able to get screenshots off the computer gizmo that duplicates the controller in the airing cupboard. Turns out, once the […]
I nearly forgot to report back with the first full year’s worth of performance from the array of solar evacuated tubes on the roof that feed our hotwater system. Fortunately the basic datalogger I have access to still gives the basic ’08 readout, and it tells me the system ran for approx 1100 hours during […]
Today’s weather has not been great, with a maximum temperature of about 11 degrees. There has also been a very brief period of snowy sludgy noisy rain that made a huge racket on the conservatory roof. There has, however, been lots and lots of sun. And bright sunlight, whatever the air temperature, means good performance […]
