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I wonder how that would hold up in court when the equipment is supposed to go down with a loss of grid.

The warehouse move didn't stop them from quickly shipping out the unit the op decided to buy

I can confirm it. I exported a little to the grid to test this and was charged for the export the same as if I had imported it

if you have 1:1 net metering take advantage of it. Lock it in before it goes away. get yourself connected with an inexpensive grid tie system, and then add your backup system inexpensively later. yes, the grid can control inverter outputs. but @Hedges mentioned its not something they would do...

spending $10k on battery backup to save maybe $300 a year :cry::cry::cry:

30% of nothing, is nothing. That power cost is so low I don't know if it's even worth getting solar

I am doing it for the investment. But, I also factored in the avoided cost of a large generator when power goes out in February and it's 3.6 degrees. I'm on a well so if I lose power I also lose water. I factored in the cost of an emergency wood stove. So all in all ,solar works out- I think ?

update. pressure tested the bad unit's lines. found a very very tiny leak. tightened fitting and leak is gone. I pressure tested the lines at 450psi and it didnt move for the first three hours. I left it overnight and it had dropped by about 1 psi. should I be concerned about this? also, I...

@jccromer I would recommend you stop responding. You are not convincing any unbelievers and you may say something that may alienate someone who is neutral. Responding is a lose lose I think. Just let it go.

Solar is getting ready to be in serious decline Installer are charging $3.5 a watt Tack on $1.5 a watt for financing Net metering is quickly disappearing Horror stories are mounting People are quickly realizing there is no ROI on solar.

Alternate scenario. Buy 2 5kva victrons and don't worry about a growatt inverter or auto transformer

It's the golf courses that get me. Average golf course uses about 500k gallons of water a day! How those are allowed to exist is beyond me

Is it worth it to even put those high demand but low energy consumption loads on an inverter? My dryer runs 5.7kw but uses only about 80kwh a month(going from memory here. I'll check when I get home.)edit(last 4 weeks 67kwh total) To me it's not worth running that with solar as the power...

Here is how victron detects grid outage To detect a loss of mains, the inverter/charger will constantly try to shift the AC frequency. When connected to a stable grid, with a normal accepted impedance, it will not be possible to do so, and it can therefore detect that the mains is still...

Will the video be available this year, by any chance?

should NEVER happen the slave inverter should NOT operate AT ALL if its not receiving an accurate signal from the master and without the grid they should BOTH instantly disconnect the grid line , even if they were not communicating. this is required by ul1741. I hope this helps

Solar was awesome. My house not so much. But that's a long story. But regarding solar, when there sun was out my house did well. Passive solar- perfect example-today the high was 33. My living room AC is set to 62 yet the inside temperature got up to 74 degrees just using south facing radiant...

Except, and I'm sorry to say this, nobody buys midnite products.

Jrcromer, is that you?

Who cares?

Take your busbars out now and put them all together, somewhere safe. I took a set of busbars out, laid them some random place and never found them again 😭

Will it work the other way? Ie cool a hot azz pool in Texas when it's 114 degrees outside?

This is a group of big nerds lol

Considering that buying prebuilt batteries would have cost me about $9k more, a couple of hundred Dollars of waste is not so bad, I think. Also by using the savings on extra battery you can reduce the size of wire in most cases. Example I have 4x 280ah batteries with 12kw inverter. The most one...

I think solar power is mostly installed by poor people and they pay the penalty for being poor. Hear me out. You want to do an 8kw system. You don't have $20k to pay for it- so you can't serve as gc and hire an electrician and an installer. So you go to a company that offers loans. They sell...

Hey thanks so much for this info. This is exactly what I needed to know. I didn't realize the piping was so expensive

L I use an iotawatt which is more expensive but they stopped selling it. The Vue is a bargain for what it can do. How do you know how to size your inverter? Which loads to power? I use on average 1.5kw per hour but I've seen peaks of over 15kw. That tells me how to size my inverter so I don't...

Good question- why? If the megarevo worked as it was supposed to why spend 3x on a solark? Of course the specs don't compare but let's not even have that argument. By the way, Im completely bottom of the barrel, with an lv6048 that I bought - used ??? . Y'all play in a different sandbox than me.

Our society was dependent on it. 50 years from now with low pv and battery prices the grid will not need to exist. Technology marches on and we adapt. Using power from the sun is in it's infancy.

Id prefer the spouse to just do the laundry at night in that case. That diamond necklace from Tiffany's can buy a lot of battery storage ?