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That's incredibly attractive. Best roof solar I've seen.
Did the size of standard panels influence the size of the roof, pitch angle and also size of the workshop... that cannot have been pure luck.
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That's incredibly attractive. Best roof solar I've seen.
Did the size of standard panels influence the size of the roof, pitch angle and also size of the workshop... that cannot have been pure luck.
this is what i was getting at. very satisfying.
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Thanks so much, and honestly, hard as it is to believe, it was just luck! The pitch of the roof was decided by council planning, the dimensions of the space was just us drawing out the maximum we thought we could afford to build (3 years ago now) and hoping for the best. We tried to buy other panels (that wouldn’t have fitted as well, or generated as much) multiple times, but, due to stock and manufacturing issues orders were cancelled or we couldn’t get a hold of them. It was our sparky who said he’d bought half a pallet of these, he thought 14 would fit our roof and did we want to make that order up to a full pallet before it was shipped? We were having such a hard time getting a hold of anything that we just jumped at the opportunity. Still mind boggling how perfectly they sit there, and we ended up with 1kwh more solar production than we had hoped for too!
@SomethingOrOther yeah uh huh, we’ve got 20kwh of victron batteries for going in. Fortunately we ordered and paid for them a couple months ago so they’re sitting in the uk with our supplier and will be coming up soon now the workshop is watertight. We’ll have 6kw of production from the turbine and 5.1kw from the solar.
@ChainBreaker I know what you mean. The way the sun was when I came home the day they fit them it didn’t look like they had a chance to get it done because it just looked like the roof..
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Thank you, wish I’d have had you to grab a chat with a few years ago!
@jonny that’s really kind of you. I must get more bike pictures, was off to work on the trackshark today. Yeah we really couldn’t be happier with it, hoping most of the scaffolding is coming down tomorrow so we can get a proper look at things not hidden away.
Got our solar panels fitted and really couldn’t have squeezed any more out of the roof space! Really happy with how they look with the all black as well. Don’t worry, that ones not cracked, just dusty..
Also, saw this headline in this week’s newspaper! New homes built by the housing association up here have been quoted a year for metering connection.. A really terrible situation for some folk locally but must admit feeling a little smug knowing we don’t have to go through that ordeal