As at 3pm on Saturday 16th July and $3400 poorer, we are now back on Solar! Let me tell you about it. The electrician turned up about 10am to swap over the inverter and a few other bits and bob...
Well dear reader, it’s been determined by the inverter manufacturer Fronius that it is cactus and needs a replacement. It wasn’t something that could have been mended, which was disappointi...
We had a solar electrician visit on Sunday to check out our inverter issue with our Solar PV system. He tested the voltage from the array, which was fine and the grid voltage which was also fine....
We’ve been facing some solar PV inverter issues with our solar PV installation lately. It’s Broken! It looks like the inverter (Fronius IG-30) has given up the ghost after 9½ years of loyal ...
Some major events around the place this week so this week’s episode is a bit of a round-up. We had to remove the greenhouse due to catastrophic failure of the polycarbonate sheeting. Its bein...
Recently, I was interviewed by Emma Sutcliffe about my small solar power system that I built myself. You can read about it in this post titled To Grid or Go Off Grid. Why Not Do Both? We co...
Want to go off grid, but not too sure if it’s right for you? Well why not make your own small off-grid power supply and supplement your grid connected system by putting it to work in your gar...
This month we celebrate 7 years of solar PV on our house! I was an early-ish adopter of grid-tied solar PV. It was installed in September 2007, and has generated a whopping 26,001 kWh over th...
A year in the writing, The Great Kilowatt Challenge eBook and companion worksheet are now available for purchase at my eBookstore! Here is the book blurb; The Great Kilowatt Challenge eBook The S...
And all that I can say is about bloody time, and well done. This short segment was seen on Weekend Sunrise which airs on Channel 7 here in Australia. It is a national show that has a viewershi...