{"id":1951,"date":"2023-01-13T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2023-01-14T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:21:04","slug":"panel-snow-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2023\/01\/13\/panel-snow-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Snow Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is January 13, 2023. We had an icy snow storm last night that lasted until this morning, and I was curious what the roof condition was like. Just how much of the panels were covered in snow?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"934\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.48.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.48.29-PM.png 854w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.48.29-PM-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.48.29-PM-768x840.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Solar energy for today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our peak energy production was at around 11am when we generated a little over 800Wh, which is inlined with what we kind of get on a cloudy, misty, winter day. In contrast, the best we got so far was on January 7th at 1pm. We generated 5,494Wh. That was a sunny day with no snow coverage on the panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Roof.Survey.After_.Icy_.Snow_.Storm_.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A quick drone survey of our roof this afternoon at around 3pm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was kind of impressed that we got that much with so much of the panels covered. Watch the above video to see just how much of the panels are covered today. Our total production for today is only about 3,400Wh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are the stats per panel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.58.44-PM-1-596x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1956\" width=\"689\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.58.44-PM-1-596x1024.png 596w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.58.44-PM-1-175x300.png 175w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.58.44-PM-1-1193x2048.png 1193w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-3.58.44-PM-1.png 1571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Per panel generation statistics for today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see above, every panel contributed even the covered ones! There will be two sunny days over the weekend, so we will see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update: 2023-01-14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did another roof survey with my drone, seeing that today it was a sunny sky day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Drone.Survey.of_.Roof_.Solar_.Panels.Jan_.14.2023.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roof survey on Jan. 14 (day after storm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-3.14.55-PM-793x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-3.14.55-PM-793x1024.png 793w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-3.14.55-PM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-3.14.55-PM-768x991.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-3.14.55-PM.png 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Solar energy production on Jan. 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have generated over 10,000 Wh of energy today about 3 times more than yesterday. The survey was conducted when it was still -6 \u00baC outside, so way below freezing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is January 13, 2023. We had an icy snow storm last night that lasted until this morning, and I was curious what the roof condition was like. Just how much of the panels were covered in snow? Our peak energy production was at around 11am when we generated a little over 800Wh, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2023\/01\/13\/panel-snow-coverage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panel Snow Coverage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,111],"tags":[15,28],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar","category-tech","tag-solar-system","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}