DAIKIN Heat Pump yearly check up

Tuesday, we had our yearly Daikin heat pump check up, performed by the same company who did its installion back in 2008
With the rain, the technician decided not to go up on the roof and did not see the external main unit, and we will have to re-schedule an appointment for that part; He did clean & check the 5 internal units though, which is half of the job

I should have an SMA Sunny Boy 3000 Inverter installed soon

I recently talked to my solar contractor and since his home made grid tie inverter is delayed for now, he proposed to install a regular inverter few weeks ago, and last tuesday, he said it would be an SMA SunnyBoy 3000 (with galvanic transformer)
If you remember, bmy Uni-Solar PVL124 and PVL68 had been installed on the building zinc roof back in october ...
We talked a lot about the details, junction box, Wattson sensors, integration of my LiFePO4 ESS, etc
We are now waiting for the bad weather to go away  !!  :-)

Paris - Hausmannian Building with a Uni-Solar Solar Panels Roof

Few years ago, as I started getting interested in Uni-Solar PVL flexible solar panels for our building, I found this quite unique project in Paris, 10 rue de la Boétie, 8th discrict, not far from Champs Elysees ...

They removed the existing zinc roof (traditionnal roofing in Paris and surroundings on older buidlings) and used Rheinzink (already made) metal roofing sheets with Uni-Solar PVL68 applied onto them

For me this is very important because it is a upscale and historical district and it has been approved by Architectes des batiments de France, the key to have this kind of building modification done; I think it is due to the fact that these 4mm very flat panels do not affect the visual aspect of the building from the street

More info about this project here, translated by Google    /  Project French link

Uni-Solar PVL on a house metal roof in California

Waidy, a member of the SFBay LEAFs Club, has a house with tons of Uni-Solar PVLs on its metal roof, part of a 25kW solar generation !!

- 24 Uni-solar 136W thin film, total of 3.64 kW with yearly production of 4.719 kWh
- 27 Uni-solar 31W thin film, total of 837W with yearly production of 1.210 kWh

Great job !

Just peel and stick, there is a thin layer of very sticky tar under each roll

And on top, some more regular panels ! sitting flat

 

Last week end the SFBay LEAFs Group met at Waidy's and a Japanase TV was interviewing members And that's when I first saw this great Uni-Solar PVL project

And what Waidy says about it conforts me in my Uni-Solar project on our building roof in Paris