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I visited the sportsman this morning had a full English with extra black pudding and a pint of cold Guinness it was the best I've had for donkeys years including the UK Highly recommend it

More of a Yorkshire thing and there's nowt up with a divorcees winter special, Fray Bentos S&K pie tinned new spuds & tinned runner beans

The Main factory was (Heaton Works) I was out on site and they used to send the Geordies out when there wasn't much doing in the factory

Oh dear reminds me of working for Parsons back in the day

It's brilliant now i wont have to fit 143 Fray Bentos pies into my suitcase

Cheers but not on Facebook My Daughters decided years ago it would be far too dangerous for me on account of me being a Doylem

I was just looking at the sportsman on google but I had to stop as i was drooling on my keyboard Is Siamburis a shop or just online ? I found some Spam in the local Makro and nearly went off in my pocket

Hi all Off to Pattaya for a weeks hols soon and I just wondered where the best English grub was these days (Full English with good black pudding and Sunday roast) ? I used to go to Rosie o Gradys and the pig n whistle on soi 7 but i heard both are closed now ?. I'm also looking out for tinned stuff to take back up North (Custard, Heinze beans, Fray Bentos pies etc) TIA

The Mrs has messaged him this morning so am hoping he comes to see me, quick question is it worth exporting ? on the app i have only ever seen it sending 3W to 4W back to the meter. I'm not sure when the meter reader comes as the meter is on a concrete post about half a kilometre away as when i bought the land she got a shed built for the grass cutter etc and somebody ran a cable to it and they never moved it when i got the main house built. The system only generated 1kWh yesterday but she had the well pump running most of the day watering all the trees plants and topping the fish ponds up so would the inverter generated power on the app be less if the consumption was higher than usual ? I would have thought the generated power would be the same as other sunny days regardless of the consumption, every day in January so far has been sunny but the generation data on the app ranges from 1kWh yesterday to 7.8kwh the day before. TIA

Cant see anything on the inverter settings and the meter is a spinning disc type

I'm going to get him back to check the system production levels and ask him (via google translate) about feeding back to the grid etc.

Only got it installed in August 23 and the Mrs used to chuck the bills straight in the bin (I've been saving them since about last June) so no comparisons until later this year, the app states total generated power which is the total for the day and on the inverter panel it gives the same reading as kWh so it looks like an app mistake. The only paperwork she got with the installation was a PSI energy booklet in Thai and a QC sheet regarding power, efficiency etc.

As I said in the OP he's a big hitter at the temple she goes to so he'll be getting the benefit of the doubt or he may just be a really good bloke I really don't know, but most of the comments regarding this post are that the system is not functioning as it should

I've met him once when he came to seal a leak (there was a small damp patch on the ceiling) he didn't (or wouldn't ??) speak any English and the Mrs was struggling to understand anything technical, my initial post was aimed at any solar users with a similar set up and whether my system was producing what would be expected, I'm not in any way an expert but was under the impression from what the Mrs said originally that it would pay for itself in 2 to 5 years ? although he could have meant Jupiter years which now seems closer to the mark

Cheers for the explanation, the 19W figure was on the screenshot of the phone app i didn't realise i had screenshotted it when it was dark so it was hardly generating when i took the figures today at 11.42am the generated power on the app was 1706W with 1702W used and 4W going back to the grid and it now says todays generated power is 7.8Kw but the actual box on the wall is saying Etoday 7.86kWh I tend to agree with you that the Pac and the app figures are probably the power being generated in real time. The booklet supplied with the installation says there are 8 Mono 540W solar panels as i said in the OP i wasn't here for the install so never actually saw the panels but i have attached a pic of the bloke fitting them for some size perspective (I cant get on the roof as my knee is Knacked) is it too simplistic to assume that 8 x 540W panels generating in perfect sunny conditions would produce around 4000W ?? Thanks again

It doesn't make any sense to me either that's why i consulted the experts

The 1st reading with all the electric appliances turned off read, Normal Pac = 1642W All the appliances (4xAC units, lights TVs fridge freezers etc) were switched on the display read, Normal Pac = 3W If i press the button on the RHS it gives a different display like Upv1, Ipv1, Vac, not sure if these readings are of of any use regarding the fitness of the system but i have pics if required The reading now is Normal Pac = 350W with 2 x Fridge freezers and 1 AC unit 17000 btu running at 27 degrees which is normal daytime usage hope this makes sense , Freq, Etoday and Etotal not sure if these would

I'll check the inverter display in the morning I've attached a screenshot of the app home screen and it appears to be exporting 3 w to the grid and 16 w to the house any further explanation would be greatly appreciated TIA

Angle looks ok and there is no shading until the sun goes behind the trees around 5 pm looking on the app for January the generated power is 3, 7, 2.6 and 4 kWh today could it be down to a bad connection or some other problem you may have heard of before ?

this photo is looking North

Its a PSI P33 it says on the adverts I've just seen the break even point is 5 years (It doesn't say if that's Dog years or Giant Turtle years tho) got a feeling my grandkids will be reaping the benefits

According to the app In November it generated 90 kWh and December 107 kWh, there wasn't any rain and not many cloudy days as i remember, I'm trying to find the paperwork see if it has any details on it

As i said in my OP i wasn't here when it was installed or i would have had a few questions and as the installer is a big hitter at the temple so he couldn't possibly be up to Owt nefarious

Thanks for that, it seems the service cost is the same as the UK standing charge, I also wasn't aware that there were different rates for kW/h usage, still not sure what the Ft value is tho