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Sergeant Sublimation has been replaced by Major Melting

did you keep them ? 42/39, stayed above freezing all night

nothing professional about that platform, it's all entertainment

Wow it’s nice out, might have to take a break and wash the car

At least the weather isn’t delayed an hour.

that you are, mine are two stories above a concrete patio, I'd need a pole 30 feet long, I'm not going up there on a ladder. It's doesn't really matter much in December or January, there is a big pine tree to my south and it's shadow crosses the array midday, but by early-mid February the sun is above the tree and sunny day production really takes off. Typical winter consumption for my family is about 19-20 kwh/day, summer it's 16-18/day if AC isn't needed. For heat, a typical 30F day the house uses ~10k BTUs/hr on average, on a 0F design day it's about 30k BTU. I'm curious what a water heat pump in that output range looks like from a cost and equipment footprint perspective, gas boilers don't last for ever.

how did you fair during the snow and cold of February? my panels were completely covered nearly the entire month.

Moving this to banter, I installed a 8.5 kw system about the same time you did and also have 1 for 1 net metering. I don't have a minimum charge and have a large credit with the POCO, system generates more power than my family uses on average. The credit was up to $1,200 last summer but the inverter died and was replaced (under warranty) and lost 2+ months of good generation (August-October). This winter has also been bad, November December and January are usually net negative months, and this February was the lowest generation month I've recorded since install, persistent snow and cold kept the panels covered. I still have 7 panels with some snow on them even now. I would consider a heat pump but I don't like forced air heating. When the badly designed and installed forced air heat system in my house died 10 years ago, it was replaced with a high efficiency warm water baseboard system. That system operates at less than 130F and could be run off a warm water heat pump some day. But for the now the gas boiler installed 10 year ago has been economical and has operated flawlessly and also provides hot water.

my last house (20 years ago) had an oil-fired boiler when purchased, I ditched that for gas before the first heating season

34/33 and mostly rain, some mixing do you have two cars in the garage rn ?

I installed a natural gas fireplace insert about 10 years ago. At the time, I was looking to install a wood burning insert (or pellet insert). Looking at the cost of the various fuel sources at that time on a BTU output into the building basis, what I learned was that pellets AND purchased cordwood are just as expensive as natural gas as a fuel source for a fireplace insert. The only fuel source less costly is free (or nearly free) cordwood that comes from you property or that you can scrounge.

hoping the sun pops through here soon and clears the ice off the driveway

sleet here AWT

About 6 in here so far, 27/26. Blowing like it rarely does here in the valley, this winter just went up a grade.

Light flurries here, 32/27. There's a little less than 8 inches of pack behind the house on the south-facing rear patio, should be a good location to benefit from drifting off the roof:

Hot take

some progress, was hoping for more

hoping the rain melts the ice dams off my roof

people still watch teevee ?

it's a forecast, not a prediction

Down to 3F here Got into the mid 30s here yesterday for about 2 hours, warm enough to wash my car

12 / 2 F, bluebird skies here, a bit breezy

That already happened, check previous page, the usual suspect

studded snow tires also back in that era we weren't slaves to our automobiles like we are today

I turned my boiler's circulater pump up a notch