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The bill is user dependent of course but the majority of our 20kw usage per day comes from the 12hrs the pool pump runs. We average 34kw of generation per day with summer being the peak of course generating up to 81kw. The feed in tariff has gone from the original .25c now down to .05c and with the daily meter fees etc etc there's now a out of pocket.
Hey PB what size is your pool? I was running mine for eight hours a day on two four hour cycles, have cut it back to six and have had no noticable change in the pool and am now saving fourteen hours a week in power. It will be interesting to see how this reduction is reflected in the bill.
Its a biggie.....92000litr plus.....when we reduce the summer time running the chemical bill increases due to the sun chewing the chlorine. Winter the hrs get cut back to 8.5/9.5
PB, swap to a DC pump motor fed by its own solar array, run through a maximum power point tracker. Then it will start running automatically around 7am and turn off maybe 6pm this time of year. It won't give you 20 hours of pumping, but it won't add to your power bill either. Any solar pumping mob will be able to talk to you about it. If 11 hours of filtration isn't enough, tell the kids or guests to stop pissing in the pool.
Micro inverters on each panel?
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I had 13 grands worth of lead acids set up at Obi, 2017 prices.
