re: #98 PhillyPretzel

And Solar also works in the cold. The wires are cold and that makes them a little more efficient.

re: #99 Cheechako

Solar is very efficient in the summer with over 15 hours per day of sunlight. Not very well in the winter with less than 5 hours of sunlight per day. And that winter sunlight comes from a sun that is barely over the horizon.

I haven’t heard this before. Everything I’ve been told and read agrees with what Philly Pretzel said: the cold makes the panels more efficient, basically like water cooling on a computer chip.

We have solar and use an app to monitor its intake. I would imagine there’s someway to figure out the winter vs summer efficiency of the panels. Given how well it’s working overall, it’s probably not something worth losing sleep over.