Solar panels produce the most power on cold winter days. The 'rated power' is for 20 degrees ambient at full (90 degrees, no cloud) incidence at sea level.
Solar panels produce the most power on cold winter days. The 'rated power' is for 20 degrees ambient at full (90 degrees, no cloud) incidence at sea level.
What you could say is that solar panels in the winter do not produce the same amount of power in an average day as they do in the summer due to the shorter day and the bigger chance of occlusion as well as the longer path the suns rays have to travel through the atmosphere.
I had 48KWh worth of storage, 2500 W worth of wind and another 5000 W worth of solar. This was in Northern Ontario. Until we added the windmill we fairly regularly needed the generator, after we added the windmill the generator just sat there gathering dust.
This was a major factor in designing the machine the way I did, variable pitch is a lot more work but a machine like that will start up far earlier than a fixed pitch machine. It also had its effect on that stator, which I made with the laminates at a slant over 1/3rd magnet width, which reduced cogging to nearly nothing. This is a huge factor in starting up a direct drive machine.