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Progress Energy just came out and installed my net meter, so I'm now waiting for Southern Energy to come back out and start the system up. I wonder if they'd get mad at me for just flipping the breaker on without them here
We are LIVE as of about 9am this morning. Even before 9am, with clouds in the sky and the sun barely peeking over the trees, the system was putting out about 1000W of power. Shortly after, I saw 2500W, then a bit later around 11am it was near 4500W. Just went outside now (it's not even peak time of day yet) and saw over 6000W. Even with one A/C unit having just kicked on I believe my meter is going backward. Here are some shots of the details:
Both arrows to the left indicates meter running backward (i.e. producing more than I'm using):
Total system output at 9:15am on 9/14/12:
Total system output at 10:15am on 9/14/12:
Total system output at 11:45am on 9/14/12:
System peak for 9/14/12 (highest output of the day so far - keeping in mind it's not yet around 1pm when it should be at its best):
I'll report in again later with today's max number and total output.
Both arrows to the left indicates meter running backward (i.e. producing more than I'm using):
The display (at the time you took the picture) was also showing kwh (00000) and rate B (the TOU you were on). It probably has another display for demand (kw). Typically, rate A is peak, but that depends on how P-E configured the meter.
The numbers are in for today - total output since turn on at around 9am was about 22.5kWh. Not bad for a very cloudy day (at least here) and not having been on since sunrise. Interestingly, the rear array had no direct sun on it very late in the day (around 6pm or so) but yet was still putting out a few hundred watts from indirect light. Amazing. Having the two arrays on different angles is actually pretty helpful in that regard. Here are some more photos and I'll try to gather more data tomorrow. I have a monitoring system coming soon!
As you know, Sunday was mostly raining and very dark skies all day. Even so, my system made almost 6.0kWh for the day which I find incredible.
Today is a bit better - still very overcast but the sun peeks through here and there. As of about 12:30 or 1pm it had already hit about 10kWh for the day so even on bad weather days, it's looking like the low light performance of this system is exceptionally good.
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