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A screenshot of the status display of our solar panels showing 22 microinverters, 19 running (supposedly) normally and 3 in "Error" status.

Hmm, that's definitely suboptimal. And I feel like something else must be wrong as well, because despite the whole point of microinverters being that one can die but everything else remains unaffected, we're currently producing ZERO kilowatts. 😕

(Update: It turns out the grid voltage across the entire neighbourhood was too high and so everyone's inverters triggered to stop exporting. They need to make some change at the substation to fix it.)

Posted on 17 September 2021, 13:01

A screenshot from the Tesla app showing we produced 50.2kWh of power from our solar panels.

Hell yeah, we just made it past the 50kWh mark for power produced from our solar panels today!

screenshot ios solar

Posted on 6 December 2020, 19:31

A screenshot of a graph showing power consumption versus production, the production part of the graph follows a perfect arc as the sun comes up and goes back down again.

Have I mentioned how much I love our solar panels? We've used 19kWh so far today (the aforementioned bread, plus I also did a bunch of washing and using the dryer, and the space heater has been on in the office), and yet only imported 2kWh from the grid.

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Posted on 15 June 2020, 16:23

A graph of our solar power production, starting at 7am and curving up to peak at around 1pm, then curving back down again to nothing at 7pm.

Ahh, so THIS is what our solar power production graph should look like when we have a 100% sunny day!

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Posted on 13 March 2020, 19:06

A photo of our dark grey metal roof with solar panels mounted on it

A photo of a carport with dark grey guttering and a white roof and posts, with a white Toyota Yaris parked under it. The front left post is partially on the driveway and the front right one is over on the grass due to the shape of the driveway.

And we're done, and the panels look great! The carport's very handsome too. (Yes, it's misaligned compared to the driveway but it's a weird shitty driveway that we're going to need to get redone at some point anyway).

our house renovations photos.app solar

Posted on 20 February 2020, 20:28

A photo of our roof with several solar panels installed and several more in position but not attached yet.

Everything is coming together!

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 15:06

The back side of a solar panel propped against a wall. The back is mostly just solid white with a couple of cables on it.

The solar panels are getting lined up in preparation for being installed. They're both larger than I was expecting, and also there's not really that much to them!

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 14:13

A photo of three tradies standing on our roof, with a set of sturdy-looking mounting rails having been attached to it.

Solar panel installation is coming along well, they're installing the rails and microinverter cabling at the moment.

our house renovations photos.app solar

Posted on 20 February 2020, 11:23