Best April for Solar

[upnortheast]

Bit of good news among all the shite around
Doing my weekly leccy meter check & I find this has been the best April week & the 3rd best week of any month. for solar yield over the last 5 years..
The initial predictions had a built in performance deteriation over the years, no evidence of that yet.

 

[Exfarmer]

Same here and we never got the panels cleaned as the farm is in lockdown!

 

[Wombat]

Our 30kw has done 3500kwh yesterday in April. And we normally do 3800-4000 for May/June/July so definitely up

 

[chickens and wheat]

My 10kw did 366 kw last week, washed them on tuesday.

My 100kw did 0.0 still boxed awaiting scaffolders then installers, while I get to make payments on the bankloan, 2.9% fixed seemed cheap on the day

 

[Fogg]

How often do you get your panels cleaned? And does it pay? I had mine done last year, and it's was just as well as we had lichens beginning to take root. So far this year, to be honest I've had enough other things to worry about. Is it considered essential? We're on shed roofs, 15 deg pitch, I think.

 

[chickens and wheat]

We wash our own with a hose pipe and a window cleaning pole, only 10kw on a similar slope, slippy as hell if you use soap as well ( knapsacked on)
Wash well once then walk away as its like washing a black car, once wet the panels look spotless drying to show all misses.
3 years ago i returned many times to get the missed bit before giving up

Only 2nd wash in 7 years
The cheapo brush on a stick turned out good at scraping lichens if used upside down.
Last time i sprayed with moss killer after washing , must do again

 

[Wombat]

At least April has been good for something as it’s pretty much fecked up all the crops, just a shame we don’t have 500kw to make up for it

 

[lloyd]

Sash
The chancellor's henchmen will be looking
for new tax opportunities?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

What’s the going rate for cleaning These days?

 

[Andrew K]

We wash our own with a hose pipe and a window cleaning pole, only 10kw on a similar slope, slippy as hell if you use soap as well ( knapsacked on)
Wash well once then walk away as its like washing a black car, once wet the panels look spotless drying to show all misses.
3 years ago i returned many times to get the missed bit before giving up

Only 2nd wash in 7 years
The cheapo brush on a stick turned out good at scraping lichens if used upside down.
Last time i sprayed with moss killer after washing , must do again

What safety measures are you taking if you dont mind me asking please, as would like to do our own 50KW array?

 

[Exfarmer]

What safety measures are you taking if you dont mind me asking please, as would like to do our own 50KW array?

What sort of safety measures are you thinking of? If electrical , you should have no issues as it is DC. Or are you thinking working at height,

 

[texelburger]

Our last quarter to April 29 th has been approx 10 % than any previous one to the same date since we installed them in 2013.They haven't been washed for a while,though,and are a little dirty.
I'm going to buy a window cleaners extendible brush and do them when it's pi##ing down,Nearly 60kw,

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Over 5000kw on 2 separate 49kw systems for April

best April for me I think

 

[Exfarmer]

Over 5000kw on 2 separate 49kw systems for April

best April for me I think

Better get the scrubbing brush out! My 50Kw did 6,200, I suspect others have done a fair bit more

 

[Doing it for the kids]

We had a lot of pigeons around this year, must have been shading!?

shot 1800 in a week ?

 

[Exfarmer]

We had a lot of pigeons around this year, must have been shading!?

shot 1800 in a week ?

did you mean to put s******g all over the panels

 

[Sheeps]

I have only 4kw of panels but produced 545 units ?

 

[Exfarmer]

My house panels which are very high angle and do not do so well in high summer managed 1125 units from 7.8Kw. inApril
This has only been beaten once in 8 years in May 2018, which of course has 31 days and actually yielded less per day by 2.5%
All my other panels have beaten April records , except for one set of East facing panels which was beaten in April 2015

 

[curlietailz]

Best April since they were installed. Following the best March also
It’s been awesome
The green line is this year. 1.16 MW off 2 x 4KW set

 

[Scholsey]

What do you use to clean your panels brush/water wise? Got 80kw on 22degree roof, 12m at the apex but only 4 to the eaves, is there such thing as a harness with a device that will slide up and down a rope but 'bite' if you yank it like a seat belt?