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Thank you sir...... this post started as a question about a 240V dryer outlet and became a really good and nice class about panels.... Thank you again....

@timselectric sorry to bother you again but I was reading about the MWBC and I think I got the basic concept about it and as you said before it looks like that I don't have it between my sub panel and the house BUT going back and looking between the main-panel and the sub-panel, would not that...

Yep, you guys are right. I tried to find more info about it and nope.. there is only 2 videos on Youtube about it. 1 from the company that sells it and 1 from a Youtuber. So it is hard to just trust and as you said, $3000 is a lot of $$$$$$ But let see if by the end of the year if it will have...

LOL that is the man.....

@Bud Martin , yep, you are right... battery is a down side. The interesting part is that if you want to expand battery and buy extra ones, all those extra will be lifep04. So why not already do the main module also with lifep04 ? But looking spec, except by the battery, it is a really...

I just saw it on Home Depot website. https://www.homedepot.com/p/NATURE-S-GENERATOR-Powerhouse-7-200-Watt-Electric-Switch-Solar-Generator-with-Wheels-NGPH72/322965309 Searching more info about it…. @Will Prowse You must review it LOL

@Higher_wire It looks nice man...

@Supervstech Did you get it ?

Thank you…. I just created one alert. But that is nice to be able to see 18 breakers/appliances usage. Most part of the time the load is less than 500wh but once wife and kids get home they start to turn on stuffs on and then it goes closer to 1kWh. So far the biggest load are microwave, kettle...

LOL my bad, sorry

Why do I need that ? I have gasoline generator with the right outlet in the main panel and the right cord. So not sure why I would need it and as @timselectric said, a male to male cord to connect inside a house outlet looks not the best/right thing to do :oops:

Thank you everyone... you guys are experts. So, for now have 2 homeworkes: Learn my usage on the sub-panel so I can know exactly what Im using and have a good idea what would be best size of my solar system Learn more about permits that I will need :-( that will be probably the bore part...

Actually we use a Gas Dryer. So that breaker is not even in use.

@timselectric as promised, here is my sub-panel inside. It looks like the only wires coming from the main panel is the L1, L2, N and Ground. And again the breaker to disable the sub-panel is in the main panel but the original idea is to add one top main breaker (using the same 80amps that we...

@timselectric Got it. Yes, it makes sense. Today as the sub-panel is fed by the main using a 240v split phase, the neutral wire in a give moment will carry current from just one of the hot wires, or L1 or L2. Does it make sense ? But once I combine L1/L2 it can have to carry current from both...