Improvements in and around my home
All of the parts for the East-West array were ordered and delivered at the same time as the Office and Garage array parts, they have just been kept in storage until I was ready to use them. The first task was to cut 5 of the 3,550mm lengths of rail in half, this was a…
Having commissioned my Enphase solar and battery installation, I decided to get started on my East-West array that will be mounted on my pre-fabricated concrete double garage at the bottom of my garden. This is install will be 5 panels on each side of the garage, each in their own ‘string’. For these arrays I…
I have been generating yet more spreadsheets and graphs to track my energy usage in preparation for tracking the changes once I activate my solar and battery installation. This post is being written in April after I have already commissioned the installation and is therefore the last month without solar or batteries. This post will…
Prior to commissioning the system I needed to run through the inspection and testing for the solar sub panel. Many of the tests did not apply as the relevant wires are simply not present – the array cables are 2 core live/neutral (no earth conductor), so R1/R2 testing cannot be carried out. I could still…
I previously showed my design for a solar sub panel, that will be mounted on the roof between the batteries. This will be fed by a 2 core 16mm2 SWA cable and a separate 10mm2 earth conductor. The distribution board is in the cupboard under the stairs in my entrance hallway, which is directly below…
As previously mentioned I am using the Van Der Valk ValkPro+ P10 South mounting system. The parts were ordered from Plug-In Solar, along with the solar panels for this roof, my pre-fab garage roof and the associated mounting hardware for the pre-fab garage solar install (this will be covered in a separate post). The parts…