20 October 2010

Day 1 for The Swamp Electricity Generation Board

Woke up early this morning (before dawn). Not exactly sure why. As I was up before the sun I decided to see what would happen on the inverter as the sky brightened up.

I was hoping to correlate the readings from the inverter with the solar radiation readings from the weather station. For some reason the station has stopped updating. Will need to check that.

The following is a series of times with readings from the inverter. It is quite dry but is mainly to act as a reminder. Will only update information if it changes from time to time.

Woke up early this morning (before dawn). Not exactly sure why. As I was up before the sun I decided to see what would happen on the inverter as the sky brightened up.

I was hoping to correlate the readings from the inverter with the solar radiation readings from the weather station. For some reason the station has stopped updating. Will need to check that.

The following is a series of times with readings from the inverter. It is quite dry but is mainly to act as a reminder. Will only update information if it changes from time to time.

0740h
All 3 LED's are lit on the inverter. No backlight or data on the LCD screen.
0741h
Back light for the LCD screen has come on. The LCD screen itself is blinking, looks like it is trying to show data.
0744h
LCD screen has settled down and is showing the following.
Sunny Boy 2500
WR25 - 026
0745h
Green LED is now flashing, others have gone out.
PAC 0W
VPV 243V
E-total 1.4kWh
h-total 2h
E-today 0.00 kWh
mode = waiting, the system is waiting until the power from the panels is enough to start pushing power to the outside world. It needs to detect the levels and phase of the incoming power to match it.
0749h
VPV 270V
0756h
VPV 290V
0800h
VPV 297V
0801h
VPV 305V
0803h
Green LED started to flash v. quick
VPV 310V
mode = offset, this means the system has detected the incoming power cycles and found there is an offset between this and the on-board generator.
0804h
Green LED back to normal flash at about 2Hz.
VPV 312V
mode = waiting
0806h
VPV 320V
0810h
mode = grid mon, the system has enough power to start generating but needs to be sync'd to the incoming supply.
0810h
VPV 329V
mode = waiting, panel output dropped below minimum
0813h
VPV 330V
0817h
VPV 331V
0824h
VPV 340V
0825h
VPV 243V
PAC 35W
mode = APP
0826h
VPV 238V
PAC 43W

Towards the end we can see that as the voltage drops the power goes up.

After this is I left it to get on with it.

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