A few folk were going 'blah blah blah your #solar panels are at the wrong angle for your latitude blah blah blah it'l gonna be so bad blah blah blah’ when I showed the polycarbonate bins with a 10~15° angle that they would be installed onto.
Well, here we are with a clear day in early April and they're pumping out 3,500 watts out of a theoretical-maximum-that-will-never-actually-be-reached of 4,000 watts.
@TonyJWells I feel like the youtubes are way too full of guys droning on and on obsessively, insisting that solar panels absolutely need to be 100% completely optimal at all times otherwise they are useless. Turns out that that's just not the case at all.
@billgoats@TonyJWells I think this is a general condition of early adopters – it's rare that people want to go through all that effort to get something that operates at, say, 90% of its theoretical capacity, even if 90% is perfectly adequate. Like telling an early computer user that they won't be able to use all their RAM.
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