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This is more of a dissertation than a question. I had three perfect, consecutive sunny days, April 13th through April 15th. I know temperature affects solar output, but what about humidity and barometric pressure? The production variations are not very big, less than 5%, but I expected them...

(Title should read 'maximum' :) ) Just thought I'd share this. Dec 21 was a clear day, which was great as it showed me what to expect as (mostly) best case for the shortest day of the year. Unfortunately, I didn't have a clear day last June 21st to compare, hoping this year will be.

I've been working on finding a way to make washing my panels a less intense process, and thought I'd share my experience. My first attempt was using a window washer micro-fiber head and a long pole (~ $30 + $30 in buckets). While this works in theory, in addition to carrying up the pole, I...

Figured I'd share my experience with my local utility from my project start to just about 1 year with solar. My utility is JEA, which is a community owned utility and not investor owned like the majority of Florida utilities. This brings some positives, and some negatives. First, the Florida...

My local boat storage/marina/store location has a few solar panels..... I've seen the panels on the south facing side as I drive by, but never knew the extent on the roof. That's quite impressive, enough that I figured I'd share it...

I've been contemplating a method for viewing sun/cloud coverage with a long-term plan to use these images, weather data and ML to automate some aspects of my smart devices (raise/lower house temp, close blinds, etc). I found a solution for the sun cam and figured I'd share what I did. Of...

The other day I installed and setup Powerwall-Monitor, which is an amazing tool if you haven't use it. One thing that stuck out to me was the impact of stacking and temperature. The temperatures are slightly higher for the inside powerwalls, but obviously well within limits. Just thought I'd...

Last Saturday at about 2:30pm (mostly sunny day), we had a grid outage for about an hour. I seem to have had an abnormal experience during this timeframe. The system switched over to 'grid outage' and powerwalls, without issue. I honestly didn't even notice, except for our UPS batteries...

My Tesla gateway updated 10/15 at 2am. I only noticed it because it killed power long enough for my various UPS's to beep and complain. It also popped a circuit breaker, which was strange. Didn't notice that until the next morning. I was able to pull up the app and it showed the system...