Project - Power Update

RE: Project - Power Update

beacon_dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:32:54 GMT

Are you planning on motorising the panel mountings so that they can be automatically adjusted to better match the angle of the sun throughout the year ?

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dougw — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:57:06 GMT

Awesome work.

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robogary — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 23:08:56 GMT

ROFL- I had misread the capacity as 28000 kWr instead of Whr. I was really really impressed and reread again. :-)

Everyday there are more commercial products available for pv. I built a small 400vdc pv system at work for playing with a 2hp pump vfd. The next one is 800vdc. I'm having fun and enjoying your adventures.

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DAB — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:41:58 GMT

Looks good.

Have you considered doing some temperature monitoring of the boxes and maybe add a smoke detector?

It would be interesting to monitor how much energy is lost as heat through all of the connectors, inverters and batteries.

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beacon_dave — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:07:20 GMT

Nice work, another milestone ticked off and fresh food / cool beer in the kitchen fridge.

Remember though "With great power comes great responsibility" [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

I suspect that it may be possible to do something cunning with the bifacial panels if you can position multiple passive 'reflector panels' to reflect additional sunlight onto both the front and the back of them. However additional heat absorption will also reduce the solar panel efficiency. Perhaps need to put your hydro system to use for water cooling.