6Kw going in soon in Aliso Viejo

[sensij]

You might want to consider running your TOU projections in the spreadsheet that member InsaneOctane made available in this post, or share your data with him so that he can look at it for you. He, and others in forums like ours, have found that for systems sized close to 100% offset, TOU-D-A actually generates the largest potential credit that could be spent on additional consumption, although TOU-D-T fares well too.

[Alisobob]

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Woo Hoo!!!! TOU-DT !!!

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Jan averaged 2 KWh's daily surplus

Feb averaged 7 KWh's daily surplus.

Interested to see what March brings....

You probably have sized your system cover almost 100% of usage. Your system will produce about same as my 7.1kW SWW 245.

[Alisobob]

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Jan averaged 2 KWh's daily surplus

Feb averaged 7 KWh's daily surplus.

Interested to see what March brings....

[buellwinkle]

And what size system might you have?

I've chimed in with this 25 pages ago, but my system size is 7.2Kw.

[control4userguy]

I'm a newbie too and I've been hovering at 42Kwhr for a while

And what size system might you have?

[buellwinkle]

After watching your array output compared to mine since you went live, I'll go WAY out on a limb and SWAG your best day will be sometime shortly before June Gloom and be something like 44 to 46 kWh max. on your best day.

I'm a newbie too and I've been hovering at 42Kwhr for a while, hoping I hit 50 in summer, assuming there will be a few clear days. Last month I had about 240Kwh of over production and this month is half way for me at 140Kwh.

So what's been your experience during May Gray & June Gloom in this area? Should I expect to get 60%, 70%, 80% compared to a gloom-less day.

[DanKegel]

It took me about a month to get my LED situation figured out.
My wife is REAL picky....
...
At one point, I had the whole house converted with the exception of one 9 bulb chandelier.
When that one chandlier was on, it consumed more power than ALL the rest of the house lights combined!
I have since found bulbs for it , that are acceptable.

So true. ALWAYS let your wife approve the bulbs. My wife is better at noticing hum / color / flicker problems.

And it depends on the house. While classic Cree bulbs ($10, Home Depot,
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-40W-...Z2bctr5Z1z0vvr ) were good enough at
our house, somehow their humming was more noticable in our rental unit,
and the ONLY bulbs that satisfied everybody there were the Osram bulbs ($8, Lowe's;
http://www.lowes.com/pd_209402-43921...uctId=50213385 )
And even then we had to replace two dimmers, and still haven't found good chandelier
bulbs. (Well, Phillips makes a pretty good a15 bulb,

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-40W-Equivalent-Soft-White-2700K-A15-Fan-Dimmable-LED-Light-Bulb-435453/205213881

but only if you don't want frosted.)

What chandelier bulbs did you pick?

[J.P.M.]

Sunpower was never on my dancecard.... I'm too poor!

You did give me good guidance though... on finding a good local installer, and run from any name you hear on the radio...

Thank J.P.M.

You're Welcome.

Early old age dementia on my part I guess. Happens more than in the past.

[Alisobob]

I believe you came around after some initial healthy skepticism.

Sunpower was never on my dancecard.... I'm too poor!

You did give me good guidance though... on finding a good local installer, and run from any name you hear on the radio...

Thank J.P.M.

[J.P.M.]

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Wow... just a few weeks ago I broke the 30 KWh barrier... today, I almost broke 40 KWh's.

The sun is rising.... quickly!!

After watching your array output compared to mine since you went live, I'll go WAY out on a limb and SWAG your best day will be sometime shortly before June Gloom and be something like 44 to 46 kWh max. on your best day.

FWIW, your system size is about 1.25 times mine and your output, as you are reporting it, is pretty consistently about 1.25 times mine - mine being a Sunpower system. My best day so far being 35.50 kWh

More FWIW: today's output at my house in 92026 came in at 31.07 kWh on a 5.232 kW system.

More anecdotal support that one system is pretty much the same as the next, pretty much regardless of up front price or panel mfg.

Perhaps my memory is faulty, but if you go back over your prior posts, I think you'll find I was one of the early voices dissuading you on Sunpower. I believe you came around after some initial healthy skepticism.

[HX_Guy]

I dig it!

[Alisobob]

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Wow... just a few weeks ago I broke the 30 KWh barrier... today, I almost broke 40 KWh's.

The sun is rising.... quickly!!

[Alisobob]

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This is how my chart would look, adjusted for TOU-DT. Peak rate is from Noon till' 6pm every weekday, excluding holidays. Weekends are all off peak.

As we get farther into spring, my generation time will move later into the day, past the 6pm cut off.

We'll see how it works out!!

[Alisobob]

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This is me, on a normal day.... wife cooking dinner, TV on... kids home. Just a few KWH's over production

This is the majority of the month.


This is me on a good day... I'm reading a book, Wife is at Volleyball with the daughter, Son is at Baseball.... House is pretty quiet.

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Overproduced a bunch. This is like 5 days a month or so.

The rest of the days about break even.

It will be interesting to see how the TOU-DT fits into this ...