In the first few days I found that the system does put out about 15% of Pmax within the first 30min of daylight on a sunny day, even with a thin layer of snow on it.
System Performance
real time monitoring enabled
Both inverters are capable of data logging, both have displays indicating output current [A], power [W] and input Voltage [V], as well as cumulative energy output to date [kWh], ... For more info on the two systems, please check out the pages I wrote for them:.
Fronius inverter. PV Powered inverter.
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In the first few days I found that the system does put out about 15% of Pmax within the first 30min of daylight on a sunny day, even with a thin layer of snow on it.
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On March 9th at 11:00 a.m. each array put out 5200 Watts.
<-- second day of operation (a.m.)
March 13th (Mon) 7:50 a.m.: weather: clear with morning fog. Arrays in the mist. Output: 10% of Pmax
The system was taken into service in March '06. The data below shows the output of the system each month
this snapshot was taken on 9/9/'06. The March data
is
incomplete - and so it the April data (the data logger was disconnected for 2
weeks. So the graph of "maximum energy harvested" should look like this
(approximately!) :
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Remember that this is the graph of ONE ARRAY only. There are TWO arrays in the
system.
Overall the system (the 2 arrays combined) put out over 9MWh in the last 6
months (from March to September)
last update: 9/9/'06