Recent content by BackyardBandit

Hell yes! The "air-boat?" concept could work out very well if the motor spins fast enough to generate decent thrust from a propeller. No wheels required, just skids.

Weight reduction and/or fiddling with gearing might be your only avenue given the aforementioned restrictions.

The intent here is to use transfer switch in the event of grid failure to power main panel through the load side of the Sol-Ark 12k from battery/PV... normal grid-tied operation otherwise. Homeowner is aware they will have to manually shed loads in the main panel before activating bypass...

Hopefully the grids are prepared!

Well then, that certainly makes it simple. Thanks much!

So Understood, that's how it works with pretty much all grid tied inverters, a pair of CT's capture the values as they exit the inverter through the AC connections. With hybrid setups, there's PV produced power that can go out of the grid connection AND the load connections. Wouldn't that...

The "Solar PV" value should be correct if the CT's are revenue grade. Would be nice if there was a way to display it in a monthly value instead of daily without having to do math manually. Correct me if I'm mistaken: the value for SREC reporting would be ((Load Consumption + Exported to Grid) -...

Bump. Has anyone ever figured out how to capture "total production" from a Sol-Ark (or EG4) inverter, not just the exported energy to the grid?

Thanks, after multiple discussions we are now planning for dual inverters.

Good to know. Probably a dumb question, what is the significance of the 160A?

Any updates on this? Could really use a bunch of these as we are doing a project intending to use 60kwh of EG4-LL's and the 6 slot racks are about a foot too tall.

Agreed.

This is what we do. Use military compass and adjust for magnetic declination based on location to get true south. After a bit of testing, we found the phone apps aren't very reliable.

Hi, I am designing a project (not my own) and looking for some guidance. Homeowner has a 400A service that is split into two 200A panels off the meter. Homeowner wants a Sol-Ark 15k with 12x EG4-LL batteries for backup (2 stacks). Customer does not wish to add a PLP or do any load management...

I believe what you are looking for is in the manual. Page 53 https://www.sol-ark.com/wp-content/uploads/15K-2P_Manual.pdf <-link