Here comes the (winter) sun…sort of

Here comes the (winter) sun…sort of

So, over the last few weekends of decent weather, I’ve managed to get the solar panel rails installed, pointed the chimney and added six 310w mono-crystalline black frame solar panels from Voltacon Solar onto the rear roof area. The wiring is pretty straightforward but it does mean drilling a big hole in the wall which I wasn’t too enthusiastic about. We do need an extractor fan for the bathroom though which was going to be hard to fit, so as usual, Donald provides the answer. The hole for the extractor doesn’t really need to be ‘in’ the bathroom as I can vent it anywhere, so I’ve repositioned it, run a piece of pipework to protect the solar wiring and run that down the inside wall instead.

I can’t seem to get the expected voltage to appear from the solar panels but that’s likely because it’s gone a bit cloudy and the sun mostly has passed over the building now, but it might need a bit of thinking about when I’m next up, but it’s looking good. Once the battery bank is installed, fingers-crossed,

 

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we should be able to retire the generator for a while. That’s one for another day though.