Hello everyone and happy holidays!

I’m interested in photovoltaic panels, it’s the future and all!

But with the subsidiaries and the general enshittification of search engines, all search results about photovoltaics leads to sites with wildly misleading information, IMO.

I don’t care about a 3kWc system with installation. What even is a kWc (I know what it is) and why is nobody explaining how much power the panels would typically yield instead? Per month? During the day?

I guess it is less selling if your installation is generating near nothing in December when you need it the most?

Okay sorry, rant off. My question is, where can I find reliable information about how much panels generate every month, during the day?

I know places have more or less sun, but that’s quite easy to figure out if you have the numbers for any place.

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Edit: I don’t need a web calculator for how many panels I need. I’d like to know roughly how many watt a typical panel produces a specific day (or better hour) in the year.

Edit2: I am not looking for how to install or calculate a typical solar panel setup. I’m looking for the typical real world output of solar panels around the day and year.

Edit3: got my information, thanks oo1@lemmings.world ! You all can now continue explaining how many panels a home needs or what a kwh is, Merry Christmas to you all!

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    21 hours ago

    I know you don’t want to hear it, but forget about the solar panels my man. It’s not going to work and it isn’t going to be worth it. You can charge the battery from the grid a thousand times for the cost of the solar panel. And that’s excluding all the other extra components you’d need to include if you want solar charging. Plus all of the time you have to put into it.

    But if you just want to do it for shits and giggles, just go look up a panel that fits your size and other specs. The watt peak is right there in the specs.

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      21 hours ago

      Ha ha yes this isn’t meant to earn me anything more than blisters ^^

      I’ll try out some cheap panel to see if I can get anything rolling at all for starters.

      If it doesn’t work enough well, and I cant figure how to fold a bigger panel for example, I have a backup project which is a robo-boat, which could drift around in the ocean, but that comes with lots of other complications like is it legal, and salt water.

      Cheers