Welcome to Winter (Solstice)

"different electrical resistivity" does not equate to being a battery. And that link makes no mention of any battery.

 

It would probably be more useful to compare capacity ratings. Mine is rate 7.0 kW DC, 6.0 kW AC. But I am one of the few who give AC capacity, most just list the DC figure.

For those who must know, my PV modules cover 26 x 1.677 m^2, or 43.6 square meters, not counting the inter-module gaps (1" wide clamps in original field, 0.5" in second field).

I would like to add another 2 to 3 kW-DC, but other activities interfered this year, and the increased frailties of age might keep keep me from ever doing such roof work again.

Today's modules are both larger and higher efficiency than what I have.

 

For sure. If you're at the North (or South) pole at summer soltice, it must be strange as heck: the sun's a particular angle up from the horizon (~23 degrees), and stays at that angle, tracing a circle all the way 'round, in the course of 24 hours.

 

right now, there's more than an hours extra light in orlando compared to boston

on june 21st, we get an extra hour and a half in the morning, but who cares, farmers?

 

Every US state is represented by a VERY tiny number of people who thought that Seinfeld was mindless drivel.
Since I am a proud delegate of Indiana's portion of that minority I had to look up some of the details of this Festivus holiday, since I had no other frame of reference.

AND.....I'm glad I did!!!

I'm SO looking forward to @Mendel Leisk Airing of Grievances and the Feat of Strength......
DONT MAKE US MAKE A THREAD!

 

Well, grievances...:

Our daughter alerted me to this phenomena, because she'd bought the pipe, and could I make a base. I made a nice, sturdy one I thought, a big improvement on the pictured original.

I thought wrong, had to dumb it down, make another, faithful to the obviously inferior one.

Don't walk away, there's more....

 

Must be aluminum.

 

If you Market it, they will come

 

That's some extra-heavy irony right there.

 

Oh, the sacrilege:

 

Ours was a solid aluminum pole.

 

Did you keep it in the crawl space?

 

It's our daughter's. I doubt she has a clue where it is now, a few years later.