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<blockquote data-quote="Greeners73" data-source="post: 552521" data-attributes="member: 37730"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I am going to have a 16 panel Solar array installed with a 6Kw inverter and a 10Kw battery. My south facing roof has space for 6 panels so this leaves me with two options for the remaining 10 panels. Note I live in a single story bungalow and there is no shadowing present.</p><p></p><p>I am looking to either install the remaining 10 panels on the East roof (thus 2 seperate strings to seperate MPPT’s). I believe there is no real need for optimisers with this setup due to the arrays being on separate strings and no shadowing.</p><p></p><p>The other option I have is to split the 10 panels and have 5 on East and 5 on west but this would now introduce a difference in natural shading across the two sets of panels during morning and late afternoon, so I would install 10 optimisers.</p><p></p><p>The question really is whether it’s worth splitting the second array across east and west faces? There is added cost for the optimisers and maybe more components to go wrong. Is it worth having the more complex setup? Will it actually give me any benefit? It may give me a more balanced generation profile but does that matter when I have the battery?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greeners73, post: 552521, member: 37730"] Hi I am going to have a 16 panel Solar array installed with a 6Kw inverter and a 10Kw battery. My south facing roof has space for 6 panels so this leaves me with two options for the remaining 10 panels. Note I live in a single story bungalow and there is no shadowing present. I am looking to either install the remaining 10 panels on the East roof (thus 2 seperate strings to seperate MPPT’s). I believe there is no real need for optimisers with this setup due to the arrays being on separate strings and no shadowing. The other option I have is to split the 10 panels and have 5 on East and 5 on west but this would now introduce a difference in natural shading across the two sets of panels during morning and late afternoon, so I would install 10 optimisers. The question really is whether it’s worth splitting the second array across east and west faces? There is added cost for the optimisers and maybe more components to go wrong. Is it worth having the more complex setup? Will it actually give me any benefit? It may give me a more balanced generation profile but does that matter when I have the battery? [/QUOTE]
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