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Good test occurring right now. Last night it was below freezing by ~5:30pm and the average of my two temperature sensors was 51*F at 7:30pm. I expected that heating would begin by like 8pm but it didn't drop low enough to kick on until 10:45pm, with ~188ah remaining at that time. Woke up this morning @8am to 182ah remaining. It's worth mentioning that I have a constant load from electronics amounting ~4 watts. A bit more consumption than previous weeks... makes sense, colder.. and colder earlier. But it's still not terribly significant if expecting to get even a little sun the following day.
It's not going to get above freezing today.. 27*F right now, high of 31*F. No sun to speak of, gray skies, pulling in a whopping 3 watts off the panels. I definitely won't make up what I took out overnight today, and I'll be using energy continuously to maintain set temperature since the sun won't be warming me up at all.
This would be a great day to just disable heating all together, start it up again at 3am or something.
It's not going to get above freezing today.. 27*F right now, high of 31*F. No sun to speak of, gray skies, pulling in a whopping 3 watts off the panels. I definitely won't make up what I took out overnight today, and I'll be using energy continuously to maintain set temperature since the sun won't be warming me up at all.
This would be a great day to just disable heating all together, start it up again at 3am or something.