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how many panels for on each string?

8 on each string
over 4 roofs the sun was all panels at the time of screen shot.

From what I can see this is all working as expected. It kinda is what is it. It's worth noting that It's not recommended to mix roof directions on the same mppt, even with optimisers, your startup voltage will be lower and the performance lower. For a setup like this I would have each direction on it's own mppt. A cheap S or F series added to your install would help. Likely not worth changing anything now.

My neighbour has 8 panels on the same roof as I have 5 his pv beats my 16 panels everyday.
The sun was on all my panels yesterday.
please see photos.
The five on the double story are in the sun all day
Its almost as if the 11 panels on the three roofs you can see are not working.

Regards Dave.

Yeh so you have small arrays linked together on the same mppt. Something about your install must be different and suboptimal compared to his.

Would you say that I have too many panels and too many different roofs.
I was told optimisers would balance up the system [shade/sunlight]

Regards Dave

If anything, you need more panels per array and each array on it's own mppt input. Optimisers won't solve this, sadly.
Optimisers are designed for panels in an array that might have shading, they not suppose to be used to manage different roof directions.

Good morning .
Yesterday we had the sun on all panels at 18.00 I looked at my Pv for the day.
16 panels 16.4 kW.
My neighbour has 8 panels his Pv was 21.4kW .


Its almost if 11 panels are not working.
Surely the more panels you have it would produce more power.

regards Dave