Soem of my panels are bluish and some of them are blackish, should I paint them all the same colour? :13:
Try white -they will be so much more efficient as they will reflect the heat and run cooler LOL
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Soem of my panels are bluish and some of them are blackish, should I paint them all the same colour? :13:
who sells them on that basis?I'm not sure if I've missed something but I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Sanyo panels are sold on the basis that they will generate around 10% more than "normal" poly or mono panels. If they are only producing around 6-7% more then I'd be jumping for joy at the fact that I hadn't paid out all that extra cash just to get 6-7% extra.
You'd be madder than a Mad Hatter at a Tea party to want to change over panels and pay the extra.
I don't think that's right.In exceptionally overcast / rainy years, they can underperform inexpensive, good quality monocrystaline panels, due to their unimpressive performance in low light conditions.
to be expected, as that's what thin film is designed to do, and the reason Sanyo / Panasonic are good in low light conditions is that they have 2 x thin film layers.I have small test set up Sanyo 250 side by side with Schoot thin film over the last year. On dull cloudy days thin film Schoot panels regularly equals or slightly outperform Sanyo.In wp per wp comperesment . Elevation 35`: S SW.
Q/ I own a Lotus car. My neighbor has a Ferrari - his car accelerates faster than mine and does a couple more miles to the gallon.
My question is:
Can I, should I change my Lotus for a Ferrari?
Would it be worth it, given his car accelerates marginally faster than mine and does more miles to the gallon?
A/ Yes you should, you cant afford to loose face with your neighbour.
Put common sense on the back burner, empty your wallet, spend lots of cash and make sure you buy something far superior to his - to regain your rightful standing in the neighbourhood.
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Why break you neck to try and get up to their level - bring them down to yours and torch his car / throw stones at his panels
What has happened to he op?
What has happened to he op?
What has happened to he op?
I reckon it'd be interesting to actually monitor the panel temperatures through the year to see what proportion of the generation is produced above and below 25 degrees panel temperatures in the UK. Unfortunately this is a bit hard to achieve on a working system as any probe attached to the front of the panel would cause shading and output loss on the panel, and the rear of the panel is a lot cooler than the front in full sunlight. I might have a go at this though as we've got a solar water heating monitoring system running on our house which has spare sensor channels I could use.
Hi
I have a system fitted 18 months ago SMA 4000 inverter and 16 Sharp 250 panels. My neighbor has Sanyo panels - they are smaller but he gets more KW's than i do and we have identical roofs and face the same way
My question is can I change the existing panels for Sanyo - I was told this would invalidate my Feed In Tariff
Thanks for any help
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