{"id":2289,"date":"2015-01-24T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2015-01-24T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:20:22","slug":"solar-panel-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"Solar panel experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next year (it is January 2015 now) I will be running an experiment using domestic solar panels, energy saving and monitoring systems, and a plug in hybrid car. The plan is to see if I can run the car for free. The 4kW array of panels was fitted and commissioned on January 16th<\/sup> 2015. In the first week they generated 22kWh. I’m no\u00a0expert (yet!)\u00a0but this amount\u00a0seems reasonable for the middle of winter. We will see.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1 Panels before fitting<\/span>
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Figure 2 DC panel connections<\/span>
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Figure 3 Cell arrangement<\/span>
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Figure 4 Details of the photo voltaic (PV) cells<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the next year (it is January 2015 now) I will be running an experiment using domestic solar panels, energy saving and monitoring systems, and a plug in hybrid car. The plan is to see if I can run the car for free. The 4kW array of panels was fitted and commissioned on January 16th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev-and-hybrid","category-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-AV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2417,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2417","url_meta":{"origin":2289,"position":0},"title":"Free motoring…","author":"Tom Denton","date":"August 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"...we'll almost, at least very cheap motoring is the plan! On the 7th August 2015 I took delivery of the (almost) final part of the puzzle that when put together will result in big savings - I hope. 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