Comments by "basspig" (@basspig) on "" video.

  1. I have determined that it would take 500,000 watts of solar panel capacity to generate enough power on a rainy day and others to generate the 50 kilowatt hours per day that we use in our household.
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  2.  @cs3818919  Reducing my electric use to 21 watts is not possible. On a sunny day, I generated 43kWh of power. When it's raining, my entire three arrays are making about 21 watts! That's less than 0.5% of sunny power.
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  3.  @cs3818919  I have 42kWh or storage and presently 14.2kW of panels online with another 7200W to be installed next month. Typically, I make 43kWh on sunny days. Now back in the 1990s, I used to consume 120-140kWh of electricity daily. Changes to lighting, pumps, laser printers and computers plus not using my 20,000W sound system 15 hours a day for background music all helped reduce consumption. However, I still have some loads that consume power. It takes 4.5kWh of computer power to train a Stable Diffusion model. My electronic repair shop has old school test equipment from the 1970s-90s which use quite a bit of power. The shop can use 12kWh per day. Now when it's raining, panel output drops to near zero. I read about 7 watts on each array. My Fluke solar irradiance meter reads 0W/m^2 under those conditions. The outdoor lighting comes on because the electric eyes think it's night. Today it was bright overcast and we had moments of sun breaking through. Had a peak of 4.4kW from one of the arrays. Total power made today was about 32kWh. There is just nothing that can reasonably be done about heavy rain overcast. It's just too dark. Battery is expensive. The battery bank was half the cost of the entire system, against many panels, racking, hardware, cable and wire, charge controllers, etc. I have 11 grand into just the battery bank! Would love to afford 100kWh of battery, but I've spent my retirement savings just building this system.
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  4.  @leonhardtkristensen4093  There is nothing to check. When you have zero watts solar irradiance from the sky, no solar panels are going to produce much power. When it rains, it gets dark and you have to turn on lights to see outside. It's a fact. But solar panels, enough of them, do generate SOME small amount of power. I reckon even moonlight would generate some power if you could cover a large enough area of the planet with solar panels. I get plenty of power when the sun is out.
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