Testing potential solar harvest?
Now that I have a solar installation up and running, and it's working great BTW, I feel a little under informed at times. For example, at any given point in time, what is my array capable of harvesti...
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bpounds wrote:Other than panels there is almost nothing in common between grid tied and RV solar so I'm not going down that route.
I think a load tester would do it, sort of. I won't do that. The inverter load would be the closest thing to a designed in tester.
Clearly what I was asking about is not practical on an off-grid system.
Consider a grid-tied solar system. That array is going to be putting out full capability, based on available sun load, at all times. What power your home is not consuming will feed the grid. You can look at that inverter monitor at any time and see the full capacity at that moment. The grid is like a battery that is always hungry, never fully charged. The panels are always harvesting all the sun available, and that can be monitored. Cannot do that off-grid.
