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Solar Panel Power on the Web
Even though the cost of photovoltaic solar panels is reducing through improvements in manufacturing processes and increased availability, they’re still comparatively pricey – and so any improvement to the return on investment they can give is definitely beneficial.
What isn’t commonly recognised is that, unless properly managed, solar panels will usually be running at sub-optimal efficiency, generating considerably less power than the maximum they’re capable of – power that can be used directly in your application, or even sold back to the generating companies using a grid-tie inverter.
We’ve been running some clever algorithms to get the most out of the solar panels we have here at MLE, and thought it was about time we put some of our results on the web for everyone to see!
(PS. At the moment the web update is done via a PC, so it won’t be updating with live data when our computers are shut down – when we get a spare few minutes we’ll swap it over to a fully embedded system instead so you can view the results all the time.)
