Something does not add up..

[Uklad]

I forgot to mention the voltage spikes stopped some time ago there was a lot of work in the area by the DNO after some power cuts due to building work round the corner not seen the spikes now

 

[puddy]

Which model of owl device have you got?


I don't think any owl can show how much energy being exported to the grid

Click on text below for my review for solar monitoring devices

http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk...orum/85306-very-quick-review-top-4-solar.html

 

[oldsalty]

Agreed - I have a Landis&Gyr E110 electricity meter an although it says "rEd" it does not add export to import (neither does it go backwards like the old mechanical meters).

By chance my solar array also happens to have a Landis&Gyr E110 to measure export.

As some people have suggested: perhaps the power generated by the solar is not being efficiently used ("use it or lose it"), but on the other hand some people with solar over-estimate how much it produces and switch everything on (sometimes in a wasteful way), resulting in a lot of power being imported from the grid because the power demands are so high that the solar can only provide a small portion of it.

At the moment, I'm generating about 0.6kW (3.7kW solar array) on a "white cloud" afternoon. My computer is running (0.2kW), the central heating is running (0.2kW for pump/fan etc), my wife is watching TV in the other room (0.2kW) so we're using all it's producing. We just boiled the kettle (3kW) so during that time we were still having to import 3kW of power for five minutes. Not to mention if we were running the washing machine, power tools/garden tools etc.

Did you leave out the carp pond UV lamp, pump and filter intentionally, oops, nearly forgot the freezer in the garage?