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Ooh the excitement!
The greatest monthly generation by my solar panels in the last 12 months was 459.7 kWh in May 2019. At the beginning of April my indicator showed an overall total of 30,016.8 kWh. It is now showing an overall total so far of 30467.7. Will this April beat last May? The overall daily average for my panels is around 10 kWh per day and there is a bit of sun forecast for today and tomorrow. Will it be sufficient to make this April better than last May? I shall sit here gazing constantly at my meter for the next couple of days, wetting myself with excruciating, nail-biting excitement.
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Wow, and that price of 50p/kWh that doesn't exist is guaranteed for 20 or 25 years, depending on what you say is true at the time.
And this makes, you say, an average of £1,800 a year, just under £2,000 a year, and £2,000 a year, all at the same time. What a fantastic deal, in every sense of the word!
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something more for the swallows'n'amphibians sub-thread ponds, insects, swallows and other birds
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The greatest monthly generation by my solar panels in the last 12 months was 459.7 kWh in May 2019. At the beginning of April my indicator showed an overall total of 29,932 kWh. It is now showing 30467.7. Will this April beat last May?
AS 30467.7 is marginally larger than 459.7, I'd say you're almost certainly going to beat the previous record, whether the sun shines today or not.
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Indeed, and when you try to deposit your earnings of an average of £1,800 a year, just under £2,000 a year, and £2,000 a year, all at the same time from FiTs of 50p/kWh that don't exist and guaranteed for 20 or 25 years, depending on what you say is true at the time...they laugh you back out again.
Why do you feel the need to lie to us about the income from your solar panels, I wonder?
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AS 30467.7 is marginally larger than 459.7, I'd say you're almost certainly going to beat the previous record, whether the sun shines today or not.
Thanks, t-m, error now corrected!
There is a small cumulative error between the reading on the certified meter and the reading on my portable display, currently making the portable display 84.6 kWh ((0.2776711%) optimistic. And it was the reading of the portable display I should have quoted, for the sake of consistency.
Thank you for spotting this.
The breathless excitement continues. The forecast is for an hour of clear sunshine at 5:00pm this afternoon. Will this be enough to tip the balance?
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FiTs of 50p/kWh that don't exist.
This fictional tarif guaranteed for both 20 and 25 years.
Earnings of an average of £1,800 a year, just under £2,000 a year, and £2,000 a year.There seems to currently be a small cumulative error between what Titus solar panels do, and what Titus says his panels do.
The breathless excitement continues. The forecast is for Titus to be unable to explain to us, or to himself, why he needs to lie about the income from his solar. Will this be enough to tip the balance?
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SPOILER ALERT
After all that nerve-shredding tension & excitement, my solar panels just (only just) reached the desired generation total this evening, a whole day early, due to an un-forecast earlier, more intense and more sustained period of sunshine this afternoon.
What now is there to live for, tomorrow? An empty, bleak life, devoid of meaning or purpose, now stretches out ahead of me. Well, except for tomorrow's forecast thunder and lightning which presumably presages the End of the World.
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I also had a productive day in the short period of sunshine, I managed to produce enough Vitamin D to last all week.
Titus, I assume you have got two meters, you know the rules.
Make sure the Solar Panels are properly Earthed, It would be a pity if they were struck by lightening, that could give you a whole months income in a few nanoseconds, that would cause a Major row on the Forum.Posted 8 months ago # -
Make sure the Solar Panels are properly Earthed
Thanks - but I have full confidence in the excellent electrician who installed them. They have been completely trouble-free (unlike some friends', who have had to replace inverters etc.) except that an inherent slight earth leakage required the retro-fit of their own, independent higher-current RCD.
The installation of such panels seems to be well-regulated.
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SPOILER ALERT
Titus was, indeed, unable to explain to us, or to himself, why he needs to lie about the income from his solar panels.
Unable to explain why he says he earns 50p/kWh when that tariff doesn't appear to exist.
Unable to explain why he one day says it is guaranteed for 20 years, and another that it is guaranteed for 25 years.
Unable to explain why sometimes he says he averages £1,800 a year, sometimes just under £2,000 a year, and sometimes £2,000 a year.Why, of all the lies you could weave, would anyone repeatedly make up such banal bullshit? I suppose that's why he's unable to explain: he doesn't know why, either.
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I think Yum Yum from the Mikado may give us a clue to any confusion
"The sun, whose rays
Are all ablaze
With ever-living glory,
Does not deny
His majesty--
He scorns to tell a story!
He won't exclaim,
"I blush for shame,
So kindly be indulgent."
But, fierce and bold,
In fiery gold,
He glories all effulgent!."
the answer is in there somewhere, it could be re written....?anyone care to?Posted 8 months ago # -
AS 30467.7 is marginally larger than 459.7, I'd say you're almost certainly going to beat the previous record, whether the sun shines today or not.
Thanks, t-m, error now corrected!Er - not really you haven't. You also missed the sarcasm intended. I suspect you either subconsciously assumed 459.7 really means 30467.9 or you've been teaching Priti Patel how to do arithmetic.
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'I'm not sure what 2 meters (metres ?) have to do with it'
It was a play on the 2 metre rule. Also assuming that there would be two meters, one for incoming electric, one for outgoing.
I sometimes refer to the Mikado, when trying to interpret operating instructions for Japanese electronic devices, as their Engrish is often Muckin Fuddled.Posted 8 months ago # -
Er - not really you haven't. You also missed the sarcasm intended. I suspect you either subconsciously assumed 459.7 really means 30467.9 or you've been teaching Priti Patel how to do arithmetic.
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm still not with you.
What is (or was) the remaining confusion? Did I not make clear the distinction between the overall total to date, and the figure just for that month?
I'll re-write the post which seems to have caused the misunderstanding, and ask (if you don't mind) if you could let me know what the confusion is:
_ _ _During the last 12 months the month which produced the greatest output was May 2019, and the power generation during that month was 459.7 kWh.
At the the beginning of this month (April 2020) the overall cumulative total showing on my portable display was 30,016.6 kWh. It is now [i.e. at the time of posting that, on 29th April 2020] showing an overall total so far of 3,0467.7.
That is a generation so far for this month, April, of (30467.7 - 3,016.6) = 451.1 kWh.
This is less than last May, by an amount of (459.7 - 451.1) = 8.6 kWh, and the nail-biting excitement was to see whether my panels would make up that shortfall in the remaining days before the end of this month, April.
_ _ _Why the confusion? Why were you trying to relate (or compare) the figure of 459.7 (the monthly output for last May) with the figure of 30,467.9 [actually, 30,467.7 - typo perhaps on your part?] (the overall accumulated total at the time when I wrote that)?
You either need to compare the difference between the overall accumulated totals on two different dates to determine the amount generated in the intervening period, or compare the monthly generation during any particular month with the monthly generation during some other month, to see how much difference there is between the outputs of the two respective months.
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And if you were lying about your tariff, here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=111935
you were also lying when you said the 20,269.9 kW you'd generated had paid off your initial £10k investment, weren't you, Titus?
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I've been running my entire house off of one 9V battery, which I first installed in 1997. Nothing works, the place is fucking freezing and we've been eating raw food for 23 years, but £0 spent on electricity bills.
I bet someone will beat you by freezing to death and starving and doing so with just a mere 6V battery.
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You seem to have missed the post above AdrianJ's it said:
And if you were lying about your tariff, here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=111935
you were also lying when you said the 20,269.9 kW you'd generated had paid off your initial £10k investment, weren't you, Titus?Posted 8 months ago # -
The news I know you have all been anxiously waiting for: the total cumulative output from my solar panels at the end of play this evening was 30,402.3 kWh. It was 29,932.0 at the end of March so the total for this April is 470.3 - comfortably exceeding the monthly output of 459.7 for May 2019. This meas there has been more sun in April this year than there was even during any of the summer months last year.
Note that the figures quoted here are from the certified meter not my portable meter, so they will be slightly different from the figures quoted earlier in this thread.
And apologies for disrupting the discussion on flying badgers. Of which I haven't seen any this year; their migration must have been delayed for some reason.
Probably Brexit.Oops sorry sorry sorry I didn't mention that.Posted 8 months ago # -
You seem to have missed the post above AdrianJ's it said:
And if you were lying about your tariff, here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=111935
you were also lying when you said the 20,269.9 kW you'd generated had paid off your initial £10k investment, weren't you, Titus?Are you suggesting Titus is narcissistically stonewalling by changing the subject to evade confronting the fact he's been caught out lying to his friends?
Seems unlikely, that's not his pattern at all. I'm sure he'll be here any second to fully explain this discrepancy about his FiTs and the others mentioned on this thread and prove once and for all he in no way suffers from a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Over to you, Titus...
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I'll re-write the post which seems to have caused the misunderstanding, and ask (if you don't mind) if you could let me know what the confusion is:
My bad, I misread the original post incorrectly, twice. I must stop drinking during the day, or start earlier
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Are you suggesting Titus is narcissistically stonewalling by changing the subject to evade confronting the fact he's been caught out lying to his friends?
Perish the thought! I am sure that he will come up with a credible explanation before you can say Lying Narcissist!
Posted 8 months ago # -
Dear Titus.
Interesting to note that your Solar panel output Peaked during April, so we might assume that is the top of the Bell curve. Just wonderered if, in any way it is influenced by an increased tendency to study the electric meter.
This might be a new type of OCD, so there is unlikekely to be any treatment available yet, until a Vaccine is developed.
I know that Mrs Rowly thinks I might be developing an OCD for Graphs. She caught me putting little blobs of Ketchup on my cheese on toast then joining up the dots.
I dont think it is serious yet, but I have begun to have thoughts about reading my Electric Meter. I havent actually done it yet, as this would involve clearing out the cupboard under the stairs.
Any advice you can give would be helpful (in confidence of course).Posted 8 months ago #
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