Scaffolding had been put up yesterday, and two fitters arrived before 8am (yawn!). They cracked on getting their equipment and getting the ladders up which had been left in the back garden.
The electrician arrived not long after and first had a look at the fuse box, then in the loft, and then discussed with us where the power cable would come in and where we wanted the isolator and generation meter.
By 9am the fitters were already drilling and cutting the mounting frame which the panels were to be attached to. I did want to watch and photograph their progress, but unfortunately at that point it started to rain quite heavily (which obviously the fitters weren’t too impressed about either).
I saw the fitters start taking the panels up the ladder around 11-11:30, and by 1pm they had finished and left. The electrician stayed until 4:30pm, by which time (due to the thick clouds) it was very dull, so he concluded that was why it wasn’t working currently due to lack of light. He advised that the system was only showing 140V and the inverter needed at least 180V to operate.
Here is what we had fitted:
8 Samsung LPC250SM panels (4 each side of the roof) at the front.
1 Sunny Boy 1700 power inverter.
1 Sunny Beam wireless monitor.
and the meter and three different isolators, one of which you can see in the picture below next to the generation meter.
Power generated today: 0 Watts