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No Tesla (yet), but I've now got the other half of the 'driving on sunlight' setup covered. I'm only 3 days post-energizing, but watching the power company meter run backwards hasn't gotten old yet.
Yeah watching that meter run backwards is a kick
My question is - since my utility just digitized my house meter to digital this year, what happens when the digits get rolled back to zero - will the meter show negative numbers?
Yeah watching that meter run backwards is a kick
My question is - since my utility just digitized my house meter to digital this year, what happens when the digits get rolled back to zero - will the meter show negative numbers?
when my meter runs in reverse past zero, it displays 99999, 99998, etc
Digital or Analog? I had an old electro-mechanical meter that spun backwards too... until my utility found my solar panels...
Sorry to be so nosey, but what happened when your utility found your solar panels??
Yeah, I'm curious, too. Stealth grid-tied panels seem like a huge liability issue to me.
But how do they know whether you were net negative or just REALLY power-hungry?
True. My little cooperative put a high-end digital meter on our installation, but their tech has to come on the last day of the month to write down the delivered / received numbers by hand -- they aren't capable of handling the new meters.Utilities are still trying to figure out this "solar thing"...
True. My little cooperative put a high-end digital meter on our installation, but their tech has to come on the last day of the month to write down the delivered / received numbers by hand -- they aren't capable of handling the new meters.
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I wonder about the roof angle and power from the panel - obviously the steeper the roof the more the panel is angled. So what impact does this have on the panel's efficiency? Is there any advantage in raising the panels to make them face the sun more squarely?