Brilliant, I'm glad you took on board my previous suggestion to fill your roof and use tigos and multiple strings. If you can cover base load and peak use with solar generation, and at a later date use time shifted cheap energy( off peak charging) in batteries you'll be saving money for decades after the initial install cost. This will also add value to your home. I have a 6.8kwp solar system, and in late spring early summer I can generate 41kwhr a day. So next up, get a solar diverter so spare electrical energy heats your hot water. Then, when funds permit add a hess (batteries), then you'll be sorted. I recommend adding a modular system such as a 4.8kwhr Pylontrch US5000s, BUY one then add more each time you get spare wonger. For me, this has been your best content so far. Enjoy this renewable journey. It's great fun.
In the summer you'll make a lot of power. The combo of a heat pump and north-facing panels is not ideal when you look at day to day numbers in January - when you are using lots of power for heat, you can't make much. You start to resent your neighbor's unused south roof area. You'll get some unexpected generation on a cloudy winter day because the clouds distribute the sunlight more evenly in the north. It wouldn't have been worth it years ago but it should be fine at today's panel prices.
I'm thinking I'll move my current 400W jinko panels to the north side when they get older (10y+), then put new ones on the south. It should be a great boost to base load on the many overcast days we get in the UK.
Thanks for filming my system is being fitted three weeks time 18 x 425w panels over an East West with a 5kwh inverter and two 9.5 Battery's The only draw back I have had is despite the installer saying he has never had one turned down in ten years of fitting systems is the DNO was turned down to a limit of 3.68 so he cant say that anymore. But hay ho such is life looks like i will be heating my hot water when the system's hitting the export limit and the battery's are charged £400 more for an Iboost not sure if its worth it yet will give it some time running and see
Ouch. We also have a G100 limitation here that I'm doing a separate video about. Exactly like you, strategy is needed to absorb as much energy as possible.
In my opinion it was a good decision to fully panel your rear roof, panels are relatively cheap, its the scaffolding and labour which costs, so better to get it done in one go. I had our best roofs done in 2015 with 4kW of panels, last year I added another 4.74kW of panels to our detached double garage, along with an 8kW Victron invertor and 29 kWh of batteries. I have a large NW roof which I will likely put panels on this year, may even put some on the rear wall of our house which is SW facing. Have sat on my ridge many a time and it doesn't faze me, although I'm getting a little old for climbing around roof's! I'd be very interested to see how your NW roof performs, modelling shows I could get another 3 to 4 MWh a year adding the additional panels.
Your (bigger) NW array will produce twice as much as the SE. You did great covering all the meaningful space of the roof with panels. Let us know about the pv production in the next months. It will probably be in excess of 7.5 mwh annually
Ours is East - West and works really well. You just notice a bigger difference in generation Winter to Summer as you move away from South facing because of the low Winter sun.
i used a local company for the same reasons you just said, they came to see me and go through everything instead of looking at things from images on a computer and trying to sell you something over the phone. your roof may not be the best facing but i would have gone down the same route, but to top things off i would look to add batteries as they make a massive difference to what your system will be capable of doing going forward.
@@UpsideDownFork my front roof is northwest and i am looking to put 6-7 more panels on that section of roof that will give me a total of around 9 kwh which will be good in summer a long with my 12 panels south east and 4 south west so my system will give me power from morning to dusk , thank you.
I have a 4kw installation facing just north of west 279 degrees i generate just under 3000kw a year. A friend similar system 4kw generates 3750 kw as his panels face south. I have enjoyed a 20% reduction in my electricity bills now 400kw and don't have a battery. My friend has a 10kw battery and has enjoyed a 60% drop in his similar energy consumption.. these are real life comparison numbers by keen domestic retirees.
I've had my panels in for nearly a fortnight, I'm seeing small savings because I had the gas ripped out so my heat pump is a bit more expensive to run than the gas but the panels are definitely making a difference. Cant wait to see how the numbers compare from mine and yours, but im doing my numbers by month and not by the week. :)
Also you can probably get you heat pump more efficent if it's a new instal too. Have yet to hear of a system that is optimised at the point of the engineer finishing instal.
Thanks for watching, please do let me know how the figures compare when I publish them in a week or two. As Joe says, make sure you've optimised your heat pump as much as possible.
It is great to see you finally go ahead with your solar and battery instal. I may have missed a video but curious of the total cost in the end. Also on your N facing panels if you checkout undecided with matt feral he did an episode on solar recently and he put a bunch of panels on his north roof and they performed really well because it was cooler by the time the sun hit them so this compensated to an extent dor the posistioning. The episode was about vertical pannels i think but he goes ona tangent.
I had 10 panels fitted facing SSW and I often wonder about my opposite NNW roof. My roofs also 20 degree pitch so quite shallow.. it makes me curious how well it’d perform
From what I've experienced so far, a shallow pitch is favourable for North facing. On a overcast day with diffused light, the north facing array generates the same amount of energy per panel as the south facing.
Great installation, nice to see you went with the sunsynk inverter. Batteries next! Zero vat on batteries now. Had to get all mine in one go to qualify for zero vat last year (ouch!)
Yes, that is a big bonus and took the pressure off me to make the decision now. I can see how the generation and consumption goes this year and make a decision later on as necessary 👍
As you'll see from my very latest video, my NW facing array is exceeding expectations. It is way way beyond the 50% figure some people claimed when comparing against a south facing roof. Of course I benefit from being exactly NW so do get the evening sun, but at this time of the year, the NW array is already producing more than the SE array by 10am due to how high the sun is in the sky. If you have a steeper pitched roof than ours you may not benefit quite as much.
@@livingoffgridinscotland you'll do very well indeed throughout the summer months with that 15 degree roof and it should also work well with the diffused light in the duller months. Please let me know how you get on!
Interested to see what the generation curve through the day looks like for the North West panels. I guess it will be quite a peak and shorter duration. But a great experiment!
Martin's doing our install next month, all the beauraucracy willing. We went with them for the same reason you mentioned in the video: a local person with thoughts and ideas and experience rather than a big company ticking boxes. If I'd known you were local I might've asked to come and talk over the tech decisions 😂
@@UpsideDownFork When you showed your panels, I said to my wife, "Oh, they're the panels we're getting" Well, I worked out why when I saw Martin's van! Anyway, we're getting 20 of those (10 east, 8 south (6 on a flat roof), 2 west - that's what we could squeeze in) on a SolarEdge inverter, with the GivEnergy AllInOne. I'm wondering how the inverter will cope with the panels in all these directions. I've set up a Solar Forecast on HA so it'll be interesting to see how accurate that is, but that says it'll cover pretty much our base load even on horrid days like yesterday.
@@davedupplaw Very nice! Unfortunately our budget just didn't stretch that much. It's been an expensive year with the insulation and heat pump upgrades as well! Had to draw the line somewhere. Martin was confident we could have used solar edge on the front roof and been able to mount an additional 3 panels, 1 x SE, 1 X SW, 1 x NE. Unfortunately it just wouldn't ever pay for itself in our case, because of the necessary scaffold and very low generation on those single panels. I've seen some evidence that the Tigo optimisers can handle different orientations but not in the same way that Solar Edge appears to master. I'm sure you're going to have excellent generation!
@@UpsideDownFork I found the "would it pay for itself" thing a bit annoying, because basically it's impossible to guess what'll happen in the future around energy prices. I'm fairly sure our quote was also based on a slightly higher average p/kWh that we actually manage on agile anyway 🐙. So, I figured I'd just squeeze as much as I could on (as long as I could afford it). I think I'm doing things the other way from you, though. I have yet to go electric heating, but first I need to sort out insulation. When we tried last, they wouldn't do it as external floor level was too close to the damp course, so we plan on some landscaping too this summer. It's going to be an expensive year 😂
Thank you for sharing your installation. It is a bit unique but every bit of energy counts in otherwise a useless roof aspect. That is a beast of an inverter well over specified as the PV setup is usually 120% more than the inverter capacity. 1. I guess you over specified it for future battery discharge and timed charging capability? 2. What did the DNO limit you to? 3. Interested to see your generation and Sunsynk app /software evaluation as there is very little of that about on YT.
It's always good to be ready for future upgrades 😉 G100 limited to 6.5kW. I'm more than satisfied with the Sunsynk app and web portal. Shows more info than I need in an easy to understand format.
What's your projected annual output? I guess they did a pvsol calculation? Mine actually yearly output after 8 yrs is very close to the calculation. Only another 18 month or so ands its paid for itself! Mind you I do get a FIT.
6000-7000kWh annually. Martin did say he likes to increase the shading factor to be on the safe side so he imagines it will generate more than this in reality.
Was going to say I love funk music but keep to the Timelapse's not the chat sections ;) great video series so far and I think many people keen to see the results of having north facing panels!
north can be roughly half south generation - you may get better than that if you’re NW (are you NW or NNW?) so definitely worth it when you consider the difference in numbers you can get on there. total finger in the air - 6.4kwp might give you 6000kwh south facing, so 3000kwh for NW, and your south about 2.5kwp maybe 2500kwh a year. so 5500kwh would be doing well and I’d expect that covers your usage in the house just about (not including heat pump though). we did the same and put 3.9kwp on the north when we added the battery and in overcast conditions its great for covering base load, letting your battery stay topped up until later in the day.
Hi, can you read your PV generation on MPPT 1 and MPPT2 from your Sunsynk inverter? I have a 12kW SS inverter with panels in 2 directions but I can only find the total production each day, not for each MPPT..
My Tigo Cloud Connect provides me with the data for my front aspect 👍 Unfortunately I haven't found a way that Sunsynk splits the data natively without home Assistant integration.
@@UpsideDownFork thanks, same here then, I have asked Sunsynk for this but has not got a answer. In the custom graph I can select parameters for MPPT1 and MPPT2, but they just report 0.. Total PV reports correctly. I can see the graph of MPPT1 and MPPT2 but not their daily production. 🙄
It’ll be fascinating to see your generation over the coming months, brave move putting that many panels on a NW facing roof. Well done! Did you install a storage battery, if so what size?
I'll be posting monthly updates for this first year of generation, so stay tuned! No battery yet, maybe in the future but for now we are opting for the seasonal offsetting strategy.
@@UpsideDownFork ok, seems like they contradict themselves. As it says on the inverter and on the Mc4 connectors, don’t disconnect under load - so what to do if/when you need to change the inverter - that have to be after darkness appears?
Yeah, I was a little surprised that the conventional wisdom of south only doesn't correspond to the calculators. The proof will be in the pudding so stay tuned for the generation figures.
Good decision to max out on day one;than be adding in the future with extra scaffolding costs etc: you now join the solar app watching appreciation society
Here is a solar pv tip. Don’t get all black panels. I speak from experience as I have two systems the same but one black and one silver/black. The black panels loose about 5% or more output in summer. This is due to panel heating reducing the efficiency. I will admit black do look better but output is the key thing
@@robrs210 I knew birds were an issue for us. Some neighbouring houses just a few doors down regularly have 10 or more birds up on their ridgeline. I know some areas don't seem affected but I didn't want to take the risk when it's something relatively cheap, quick and simple to fit whilst all the scaffolding etc is already up. BTW, I agree on the principle of generation over all!
I doubt whether you'll regret it.. even if you get half of what an ideal alignment gives the panels are half the price to what they were a year ago. Just wait till you get past easter,, you won't know what to do with it all! An ev perhaps? Or at least sell it back to the grid, you're only renting the power really 😅😊😊
Maybe. I always ask before sticking my nose in and in this case especially before swinging a camera around. If Martin was even the least bit reluctant then I would have respected that and stayed away. A life hack I've learnt is that if a tradesman is happy for you to watch or be around then they're the type of tradesman you want 👍
@@UpsideDownFork Mel Gibson can't disclose sorry, but more than just saving it in my bank 😂 or ripple stock. My advice to new investors read information on these they will open ya eyes and I would allocate 5% free money or savings to tesla-bitcoin-Solana 33% each, have a 5 year time plan the price today doesn't really matter to me because I'm not selling it but this last month has been fun watching it fly, 2021 I bought a tesla my 20k savings it went to 100k at the highest point 🤝
I like the comment at the end about people dealing with people and not companies! You got a sub for that! ❤
Thanks for the comment & the sub! I've responded in my latest video th-cam.com/video/cPFFZ3RZ040/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant, I'm glad you took on board my previous suggestion to fill your roof and use tigos and multiple strings. If you can cover base load and peak use with solar generation, and at a later date use time shifted cheap energy( off peak charging) in batteries you'll be saving money for decades after the initial install cost. This will also add value to your home. I have a 6.8kwp solar system, and in late spring early summer I can generate 41kwhr a day. So next up, get a solar diverter so spare electrical energy heats your hot water.
Then, when funds permit add a hess (batteries), then you'll be sorted. I recommend adding a modular system such as a 4.8kwhr Pylontrch US5000s, BUY one then add more each time you get spare wonger. For me, this has been your best content so far. Enjoy this renewable journey. It's great fun.
Thanks for the advice! Still more to come!
Good video, thanks for taking the time to produce and upload.
Thank you for the positive feedback!
In the summer you'll make a lot of power. The combo of a heat pump and north-facing panels is not ideal when you look at day to day numbers in January - when you are using lots of power for heat, you can't make much. You start to resent your neighbor's unused south roof area. You'll get some unexpected generation on a cloudy winter day because the clouds distribute the sunlight more evenly in the north. It wouldn't have been worth it years ago but it should be fine at today's panel prices.
Thanks for the comment. That's a great analysis!
Great that you went with a local company.
Yes, I'm very happy with their work and completely recommend them.
I'm thinking I'll move my current 400W jinko panels to the north side when they get older (10y+), then put new ones on the south. It should be a great boost to base load on the many overcast days we get in the UK.
Imagine the price and performance of the much vaunted perovskite panels by then!
Good plan!
That massive expanse of black glass looks great!
I think so too! My neighbours think I'm crazy 🤣
Thanks for filming my system is being fitted three weeks time 18 x 425w panels over an East West with a 5kwh inverter and two 9.5 Battery's The only draw back I have had is despite the installer saying he has never had one turned down in ten years of fitting systems is the DNO was turned down to a limit of 3.68 so he cant say that anymore. But hay ho such is life looks like i will be heating my hot water when the system's hitting the export limit and the battery's are charged £400 more for an Iboost not sure if its worth it yet will give it some time running and see
Ouch. We also have a G100 limitation here that I'm doing a separate video about.
Exactly like you, strategy is needed to absorb as much energy as possible.
In my opinion it was a good decision to fully panel your rear roof, panels are relatively cheap, its the scaffolding and labour which costs, so better to get it done in one go. I had our best roofs done in 2015 with 4kW of panels, last year I added another 4.74kW of panels to our detached double garage, along with an 8kW Victron invertor and 29 kWh of batteries. I have a large NW roof which I will likely put panels on this year, may even put some on the rear wall of our house which is SW facing. Have sat on my ridge many a time and it doesn't faze me, although I'm getting a little old for climbing around roof's! I'd be very interested to see how your NW roof performs, modelling shows I could get another 3 to 4 MWh a year adding the additional panels.
Thanks! It sounds like you've been on quite a journey yourself.
Clean install there, rare to get a sub contactor working for a large firm doing a neat job. 👍
Yes I agree, I'm very happy with the workmanship and won't hesitate to recommend Martin at Dorset Solar Solutions 👍
Your (bigger) NW array will produce twice as much as the SE. You did great covering all the meaningful space of the roof with panels. Let us know about the pv production in the next months. It will probably be in excess of 7.5 mwh annually
Same as us 👍👍
Thanks for the comment! You're giving the game away a bit too much already 😂😉
@@UpsideDownFork
🤣 no spoiler intended
Just looked it up n pvwatts
Ours is East - West and works really well. You just notice a bigger difference in generation Winter to Summer as you move away from South facing because of the low Winter sun.
Thanks for the comment!
I'm hoping the sheer number of panels will help us with our base load through winter, even with the over cast diffused light.
i used a local company for the same reasons you just said, they came to see me and go through everything instead of looking at things from images on a computer and trying to sell you something over the phone.
your roof may not be the best facing but i would have gone down the same route, but to top things off i would look to add batteries as they make a massive difference to what your system will be capable of doing going forward.
Thanks for the comment.
I'm very happy with the choice to go local and to fill the roof. Dorset Solar Solutions were excellent 👍
@@UpsideDownFork my front roof is northwest and i am looking to put 6-7 more panels on that section of roof that will give me a total of around 9 kwh which will be good in summer a long with my 12 panels south east and 4 south west so my system will give me power from morning to dusk , thank you.
I have a 4kw installation facing just north of west 279 degrees i generate just under 3000kw a year. A friend similar system 4kw generates 3750 kw as his panels face south. I have enjoyed a 20% reduction in my electricity bills now 400kw and don't have a battery. My friend has a 10kw battery and has enjoyed a 60% drop in his similar energy consumption.. these are real life comparison numbers by keen domestic retirees.
Thanks for sharing your figures! It sounds like you're doing very well!
I've had my panels in for nearly a fortnight, I'm seeing small savings because I had the gas ripped out so my heat pump is a bit more expensive to run than the gas but the panels are definitely making a difference. Cant wait to see how the numbers compare from mine and yours, but im doing my numbers by month and not by the week. :)
Also you can probably get you heat pump more efficent if it's a new instal too. Have yet to hear of a system that is optimised at the point of the engineer finishing instal.
Thanks for watching, please do let me know how the figures compare when I publish them in a week or two.
As Joe says, make sure you've optimised your heat pump as much as possible.
It is great to see you finally go ahead with your solar and battery instal.
I may have missed a video but curious of the total cost in the end.
Also on your N facing panels if you checkout undecided with matt feral he did an episode on solar recently and he put a bunch of panels on his north roof and they performed really well because it was cooler by the time the sun hit them so this compensated to an extent dor the posistioning.
The episode was about vertical pannels i think but he goes ona tangent.
Next video will show the breakdown of costs 👍
I'll have to find that video to watch, thanks!
I had 10 panels fitted facing SSW and I often wonder about my opposite NNW roof. My roofs also 20 degree pitch so quite shallow.. it makes me curious how well it’d perform
From what I've experienced so far, a shallow pitch is favourable for North facing.
On a overcast day with diffused light, the north facing array generates the same amount of energy per panel as the south facing.
Great installation, nice to see you went with the sunsynk inverter. Batteries next! Zero vat on batteries now. Had to get all mine in one go to qualify for zero vat last year (ouch!)
Yes, that is a big bonus and took the pressure off me to make the decision now. I can see how the generation and consumption goes this year and make a decision later on as necessary 👍
I think it is a good idea and that you will get better longevity from the north face. its strong sun and overheating that wears them out.
Thanks for the positive reinforcement!
We have 12.9kw of solar south facing but are looking at fitting 9.9kw north facing…
As you'll see from my very latest video, my NW facing array is exceeding expectations. It is way way beyond the 50% figure some people claimed when comparing against a south facing roof. Of course I benefit from being exactly NW so do get the evening sun, but at this time of the year, the NW array is already producing more than the SE array by 10am due to how high the sun is in the sky. If you have a steeper pitched roof than ours you may not benefit quite as much.
@@UpsideDownFork ours is 15 degrees and north west, so I’m hoping it’ll generate from “diffused light” also and catch the evening sun
@@livingoffgridinscotland you'll do very well indeed throughout the summer months with that 15 degree roof and it should also work well with the diffused light in the duller months. Please let me know how you get on!
Interested to see what the generation curve through the day looks like for the North West panels. I guess it will be quite a peak and shorter duration. But a great experiment!
It is interesting so far and not what I expected! Stay tuned!
Martin's doing our install next month, all the beauraucracy willing. We went with them for the same reason you mentioned in the video: a local person with thoughts and ideas and experience rather than a big company ticking boxes. If I'd known you were local I might've asked to come and talk over the tech decisions 😂
You won't be disappointed with Martin's work. What system are you going for?
@@UpsideDownFork When you showed your panels, I said to my wife, "Oh, they're the panels we're getting" Well, I worked out why when I saw Martin's van! Anyway, we're getting 20 of those (10 east, 8 south (6 on a flat roof), 2 west - that's what we could squeeze in) on a SolarEdge inverter, with the GivEnergy AllInOne. I'm wondering how the inverter will cope with the panels in all these directions. I've set up a Solar Forecast on HA so it'll be interesting to see how accurate that is, but that says it'll cover pretty much our base load even on horrid days like yesterday.
@@davedupplaw Very nice! Unfortunately our budget just didn't stretch that much. It's been an expensive year with the insulation and heat pump upgrades as well! Had to draw the line somewhere.
Martin was confident we could have used solar edge on the front roof and been able to mount an additional 3 panels, 1 x SE, 1 X SW, 1 x NE.
Unfortunately it just wouldn't ever pay for itself in our case, because of the necessary scaffold and very low generation on those single panels.
I've seen some evidence that the Tigo optimisers can handle different orientations but not in the same way that Solar Edge appears to master.
I'm sure you're going to have excellent generation!
Nicely done - all round.
@@UpsideDownFork I found the "would it pay for itself" thing a bit annoying, because basically it's impossible to guess what'll happen in the future around energy prices. I'm fairly sure our quote was also based on a slightly higher average p/kWh that we actually manage on agile anyway 🐙. So, I figured I'd just squeeze as much as I could on (as long as I could afford it). I think I'm doing things the other way from you, though. I have yet to go electric heating, but first I need to sort out insulation. When we tried last, they wouldn't do it as external floor level was too close to the damp course, so we plan on some landscaping too this summer. It's going to be an expensive year 😂
Thank you for sharing your installation. It is a bit unique but every bit of energy counts in otherwise a useless roof aspect. That is a beast of an inverter well over specified as the PV setup is usually 120% more than the inverter capacity.
1. I guess you over specified it for future battery discharge and timed charging capability?
2. What did the DNO limit you to?
3. Interested to see your generation and Sunsynk app /software evaluation as there is very little of that about on YT.
It's always good to be ready for future upgrades 😉
G100 limited to 6.5kW.
I'm more than satisfied with the Sunsynk app and web portal. Shows more info than I need in an easy to understand format.
What's your projected annual output? I guess they did a pvsol calculation? Mine actually yearly output after 8 yrs is very close to the calculation. Only another 18 month or so ands its paid for itself! Mind you I do get a FIT.
6000-7000kWh annually. Martin did say he likes to increase the shading factor to be on the safe side so he imagines it will generate more than this in reality.
Do not put background noise into your video, some of us cannot differentiate noises to hear speech.
Was going to say I love funk music but keep to the Timelapse's not the chat sections ;) great video series so far and I think many people keen to see the results of having north facing panels!
Apologies for this rookie mistake. I'll do better in the future!
Hope the captioning at least worked for you?
1st sign of deafness I’m afraid
north can be roughly half south generation - you may get better than that if you’re NW (are you NW or NNW?) so definitely worth it when you consider the difference in numbers you can get on there. total finger in the air - 6.4kwp might give you 6000kwh south facing, so 3000kwh for NW, and your south about 2.5kwp maybe 2500kwh a year. so 5500kwh would be doing well and I’d expect that covers your usage in the house just about (not including heat pump though). we did the same and put 3.9kwp on the north when we added the battery and in overcast conditions its great for covering base load, letting your battery stay topped up until later in the day.
Thanks for the comment. That's the plan!
Did you have this installed last year or is the timestamp on the recording incorrect?
Thanks for the comment. The date seems to be a year out. Just fitted in Jan 2024.
Great Video, what sort of ballpark figure does this set you back?
Next video will show the breakdown of costs 👍
How much did all the solar panels and the install cost in total?
Next video will show the breakdown of costs 👍
Hi, can you read your PV generation on MPPT 1 and MPPT2 from your Sunsynk inverter?
I have a 12kW SS inverter with panels in 2 directions but I can only find the total production each day, not for each MPPT..
My Tigo Cloud Connect provides me with the data for my front aspect 👍
Unfortunately I haven't found a way that Sunsynk splits the data natively without home Assistant integration.
@@UpsideDownFork thanks, same here then, I have asked Sunsynk for this but has not got a answer.
In the custom graph I can select parameters for MPPT1 and MPPT2, but they just report 0..
Total PV reports correctly.
I can see the graph of MPPT1 and MPPT2 but not their daily production.
🙄
@@jonbraathen2232 If you do get anywhere with this then i'd love to know.
It’ll be fascinating to see your generation over the coming months, brave move putting that many panels on a NW facing roof. Well done! Did you install a storage battery, if so what size?
I'll be posting monthly updates for this first year of generation, so stay tuned!
No battery yet, maybe in the future but for now we are opting for the seasonal offsetting strategy.
You can expect 60% of energy production on the north side compared to South.
YTD we are over 70%, but we'll wait and see what the winter brings with the lower sun.
Why is there no DC isolators for each string up in the loft??
Because it's a fire risk. th-cam.com/video/2BBCclJuM4I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AfccBz4SPJmmWuTT
@@UpsideDownFork ok, seems like they contradict themselves. As it says on the inverter and on the Mc4 connectors, don’t disconnect under load - so what to do if/when you need to change the inverter - that have to be after darkness appears?
Whenever I've looked at a solar calculator it doesn't have too much of a penalty
Yeah, I was a little surprised that the conventional wisdom of south only doesn't correspond to the calculators.
The proof will be in the pudding so stay tuned for the generation figures.
Good decision to max out on day one;than be adding in the future with extra scaffolding costs etc: you now join the solar app watching appreciation society
Indeed! Thanks for commenting!
Here is a solar pv tip. Don’t get all black panels. I speak from experience as I have two systems the same but one black and one silver/black. The black panels loose about 5% or more output in summer. This is due to panel heating reducing the efficiency.
I will admit black do look better but output is the key thing
My wife disagrees and she's the real boss 😂
@@UpsideDownFork pay back not popularity. At least you got the bird proofing on. This is one thing often not covered. We had birds for two years 🤬
@@robrs210 I knew birds were an issue for us. Some neighbouring houses just a few doors down regularly have 10 or more birds up on their ridgeline. I know some areas don't seem affected but I didn't want to take the risk when it's something relatively cheap, quick and simple to fit whilst all the scaffolding etc is already up.
BTW, I agree on the principle of generation over all!
I doubt whether you'll regret it.. even if you get half of what an ideal alignment gives the panels are half the price to what they were a year ago. Just wait till you get past easter,, you won't know what to do with it all! An ev perhaps? Or at least sell it back to the grid, you're only renting the power really 😅😊😊
Thanks for the comment! Many good points crammed in there. Stay tuned 😉
What did it cost?
Thanks for your comment.
The cost of this installation was just under £10k in Jan 2024.
That is a 5kw inverter. The 8kw is much bigger and also noisier.
Incorrect. It's definitely an 8.
This does have a fan, but so far it's not noisy. I've heard at the height of summer it can be quite busy!
Good video,but maybe a life hack...I wouldn't check a person's work as a layman in front of them.😂😂
Maybe. I always ask before sticking my nose in and in this case especially before swinging a camera around.
If Martin was even the least bit reluctant then I would have respected that and stayed away.
A life hack I've learnt is that if a tradesman is happy for you to watch or be around then they're the type of tradesman you want 👍
Those panels are so cheap you may as well fell the neighborhood with them. Great value panels. £80 is a bargain
Thanks for the comment! I agree. Cover the place! 😀
Bitcoin up 49% the last 4 weeks...
How much money have you made on it?
@@UpsideDownFork Mel Gibson can't disclose sorry, but more than just saving it in my bank 😂 or ripple stock.
My advice to new investors read information on these they will open ya eyes and I would allocate 5% free money or savings to tesla-bitcoin-Solana 33% each, have a 5 year time plan the price today doesn't really matter to me because I'm not selling it but this last month has been fun watching it fly, 2021 I bought a tesla my 20k savings it went to 100k at the highest point 🤝
60% up in 4 weeks, last 12 months up 202%
Music is so annoying!
Noted!