Looks like you all are getting lots of snow!
It is nice and sunny here in Fort Worth, and 45 degrees.
It is nice and sunny here in Fort Worth, and 45 degrees.
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Hope your batteries stay full in the NE
- Thread starter CrazyRabbit
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we got about 14" and have a few hours of light snow left. panels are buried. hopefully it will slide off this afternoon. storm watch still active here. PW's at 98%. I can't believe we haven't lost grid power yet. fun fun.... headed out to plow now.
jhn_
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Been running on the Powerwalls since about 9am. Over a foot of the heaviest snow possible so far.
I’ll take 4 seasons over frying in the south any day. Gorgeous winter here in the northeast.
The 30" of snow was wet and heavy in Deering, NH. Just enough to take down a lot of trees. 21 times the power dropped from voltage issues caused by limbs hitting the lines. The Powerwalls(4) backed up 2 hours during the storm until the 22nd outage that was caused by lines down. The Powerwall system has been running everything since 3pm yesterday.
This morning 57% battery left. I could not wade thru the snow to clear the solar. The snow was just too deep to move in. Luckily more than half of the panels self cleared by 10 am so we are charging up to 70% now.
The forecast improves over the next few days. Should be all set until they get around to restoring the power.
This morning 57% battery left. I could not wade thru the snow to clear the solar. The snow was just too deep to move in. Luckily more than half of the panels self cleared by 10 am so we are charging up to 70% now.
The forecast improves over the next few days. Should be all set until they get around to restoring the power.
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That's what snowshoes are for. They've come in handy when it's time to crank the panels.
jhn_
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The grid just came back up. Powerwalls ran everything from Tuesday at 4:30 pm to Thursday 7:30 am. Even did laundry and charged the car a bit.
FurryOne
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Here in Upstate NY's Mohawk Valley we only got 4-6" during the storm. I got out my Eversprout 30' telescoping pole with their Snowbuster end and pulled the snow right off my 24 panels as soon as the snow stopped. No outage in my area but just South it went out.
So how much energy were you able to produce during and after the storm. Info like this is useful for people trying to prepare for events like this.
Exactly 45 feet of head 300 feet of 4" HDPE penstock pipe. The turbine can hit 400 watts but the screen at the inlet tend to clog with 4 nozzles turned on so I run it with 3. So I get 250 watts that way. Its is a seasonal brook that tends to dry up in the summer. But it runs in the fall to the summer.
There is a lot going on in Powerwall picture. To right I see lead acid batteries, to the left perhaps enphase envoy, four power meters, gateway, and inverter.
If you drain the acid and store it separately you can keep the lead acid batteries indefinitely.
Good eye CrazyRabbit.
The lead acid batteries were from the Outback grid tie battery backup system I originally built.
In the lower grey box are two Enphase Envoy units. One for the 33 M series inverters and one for the 25 Q series inverters.
I purchased some used panels with Enphase inverters and fell in love with them. That started the transition from a DC system to an AC coupled Tesla system.
The top blue box is an inverter with a dump controller and dump load tied to my micro hydro dc generator.
The 4 powers meters when you are on a roll why not. They give me the output from the Hydro, solar on barn, solar on woodshed, and solar over the sawmill.
Then the gateway 1 main breaker panel and the solar input panel.
Everything self installed.
The lead acid batteries were from the Outback grid tie battery backup system I originally built.
In the lower grey box are two Enphase Envoy units. One for the 33 M series inverters and one for the 25 Q series inverters.
I purchased some used panels with Enphase inverters and fell in love with them. That started the transition from a DC system to an AC coupled Tesla system.
The top blue box is an inverter with a dump controller and dump load tied to my micro hydro dc generator.
The 4 powers meters when you are on a roll why not. They give me the output from the Hydro, solar on barn, solar on woodshed, and solar over the sawmill.
Then the gateway 1 main breaker panel and the solar input panel.
Everything self installed.
I saw the dump resister, forgot to mention it. Could you use pool valves instead and shut off the flow? How much power does the hydro generate?
Love the per panel data; watts, dc amps and volts.
Love the per panel data; watts, dc amps and volts.
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