{"id":3457,"date":"2014-03-07T18:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:37:16","slug":"discover-micro-inverter-solar-panels-cope-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/discover-micro-inverter-solar-panels-cope-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover How Micro Inverter Solar Panels Cope With Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a true solar geek, I can&#8217;t think of anything better to do at 7:30 on a Friday evening, than log in to my solar panel monitoring system. \u00a0While most folks are settling down to Friday Night Footy, you&#8217;ll find me checking out how much power my 6kW of micro inverter solar panels are producing as the last rays of evening sun scatter across my roof.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">As I logged in tonight to see a respectable 1.2kW being pumped out, I noticed that the monitoring system was providing a great example of one of the benefits of <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/micro\/\">microinverter<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have a gander at the live monitoring screenshot below you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ve highlighted the position of my wood burner&#8217;s flue and the approximate shadow it casts as the sun goes down.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3458\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/microinverters-and-shade.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3458\" alt=\"solar panel monitoring\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/microinverters-and-shade.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"742\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red circle is my flue. I&#8217;ve drawn on its 7:30pm shadow.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now, the interesting thing to note (for a solar-geek anyway) is that the panel next to the flue is at 10W and the panel next to it is 37W. \u00a0This compares with all the other panels which are sitting pretty at about 54W. Obviously the 2 underperforming panels are suffering from the flue&#8217;s late-evening shadow.<\/p>\n<p>But the cool thing is that the shadow is only affecting those 2 panels. 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