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David,<br>
<br>
Thanks for sharing that paper. The labeling the graphs for the
10-second and 1-minute data in Freiburg appears to be reversed - the
one minute averaging seems to have more data in all of the bins above
1000 W/sq m. Basically, these graphs show that irradiance observations
above 1100 watts per square meter are fleeting and disappear in hourly
averages. Such occurrences are also masked to a small extent by
1-minute averages.<br>
<br>
Kent Osterberg<br>
Blue Mountain Solar, Inc.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
David Brearley wrote:
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cite="mid:C95CAA51.B514%25david.brearley@solarprofessional.com"
type="cite">
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style="font-size: 11pt;">This reminds me of a scholarly article I came
across about a year ago while doing some research. Here’s a link to it
if anyone is interested:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lepten.ufsc.br/publicacoes/solar/eventos/2005/PSC/burger_ruther.pdf">www.lepten.ufsc.br/publicacoes/solar/eventos/2005/PSC/burger_ruther.pdf</a><br>
<br>
David Brearley, Senior Technical Editor<br>
<i>SolarPro</i> magazine <br>
NABCEP Certified PV Installer ™<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="david.brearley@solarprofessional.com">david.brearley@solarprofessional.com</a><br>
Direct: 541.261.6545<br>
<br>
On 1/19/11 12:29 PM, "Bill Brooks" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="billbrooks7@yahoo.com">billbrooks7@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#1f497d">Kent,<br>
<br>
How often were your data records? To capture edge of cloud effects, you
need one-second data. Not many people gather that fast or that much
data on inverters. I don’t think there is that much energy in these
spikes, but they are real and make some difference. 15-minute average
data will completely wash out this data.<br>
<br>
This is also a deficiency in modeling software since most models are
using hourly data.<br>
<br>
Bill.<br>
<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font
face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>From:</b>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org">mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kent Osterberg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wrenches; Marco Mangelsdorf<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] Inverter oversizing<br>
</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
<br>
Attached is a graph that I produced to document the effect of various
ratios between the PV array size and the inverter size. I extracted
output power data for a 1020-watt system located in NE Oregon that is
on the Sunny Portal <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sunnyportal.com/Templates/PublicPageOverview.aspx?page=85820a73-a347-48fb-b8d1-92e5f9b78ab3&plant=608681a7-ef60-4edb-84ff-07110db0ab6a&splang=en-US">http://www.sunnyportal.com/Templates/PublicPageOverview.aspx?page=85820a73-a347-48fb-b8d1-92e5f9b78ab3&plant=608681a7-ef60-4edb-84ff-07110db0ab6a&splang=en-US</a>>
. The data are publicly accessible so feel free to run your own
analysis. Better yet, analyze the data for a system near you. <br>
<br>
Using 2009 data, I looked at how much energy would have been lost if
the output was clipped at 800W, 810W, .... 1020W. I used 2009 data
because there was a period in 2010 when the Sunny Webbox didn't have
internet access. At 800 watts, power clipping would have happened on
about 25% of the days. Yet the energy that would have been lost was
only 0.38% of the annual total. <br>
<br>
The results shown on this graph aren't universal, results would be a
little different in 2010, it would be different in some other climate,
it would have been different at another elevation, it would be
different with a different array angle, ..., and the module tolerance
and inverter efficiency also effect the results. Modules in this
system are Suntech 170-watt +/-3%. The inverter is Sunnyboy 1800 that
should be operating at close to 93% efficiency.<br>
<br>
Kent Osterberg<br>
Blue Mountain Solar. Inc.<br>
<br>
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