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Bypassing an inverter using manually operated switch
I am in the design process phase of a home project where I will be adding a hybrid solar inverter and battery storage into my home setup. We will not be connecting a solar PV array. The goal is to ...
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Solar-electric system not generating rated power
I bought a solar PV system a couple of months ago. It has 11 410-watt panels for a total of 4.5 kW.
The first month it was cloudy and never generated over 3.2 kW of power. Now that it's been bright ...
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Can micro inverters be fooled to feed back-up when grid is down?
I have a small roof that barely fits 12 panels, a row of 8 in portrait on top, and a row of 4 in landscape below. The 4 will get some shadow on the bottom for about 4 months of the year, so they would ...
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Does an off-grid solar inverter need to be UL listed?
I'd like to put some solar panels near my house and power a small sub panel with a few key circuits. Like the fridge and freezer. The idea is to reduce my electrical bill, and have some power to use ...
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Is it safe to plug 110v outlet to inverter input, and inverter output to the inletbox
I have installed the 10 breakers transfer switch, so if the power is out I can just connect the generator to the inlet box.
I dont want to disturb my neighbors at night so I am planning to install ...
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Should an inverter heat pump be sized according to the conventional AC unit it replaces?
A split conventional AC needs to be replaced due to age. The current AC is 48K BTU (4-ton).
If replaced with an inverter heat pump, should it be sized with a 48K BTU unit? Or should it be sized with ...
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Solar inverter output protection breaker
I have a solar inverter. Previously I would just assume the line and pull it through required single phase breakers in the distribution box.
But I have noticed that both lines have voltage to ground. ...
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How do I avoid overcharging the inverter battery and keep it healthy [closed]
I have installed the Luminous Inverter Battery (lead acid) as power back up for essential electrical appliances at home.
There is not much electricity cut. I just want to be sure that I'm not ...
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My new inverter has an unusual power output. Will it harm ordinary appliances to use the output described?
A recently purchased 12 volt to 120 volt pure sine wave inverter produces to a standard 3 hole 15 amp receptacle, 2 hot legs of 60 volts each with 120 volts measured across them. The third leg of the ...
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Can I Change The 240V Coming Into the Main Panel To 2 120V Panels?
I have a generator that has a 240V plug which connects to the main house panel via 8/3 Romex (Black, Red, White, Ground). The generator has two 30A breakers on it. Can I split that wire coming into ...
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Can I Still Use 2nd Hot Wire In Panel If I Rewired Panel For 120V? [closed]
I'm working on a cabin that only has electricity supplied to it from a generator room outside the house. The wire coming into the house was 8/3 with the 2 hots going to separate sides of the panel and ...
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Will higher BTU A/C inverter not work in room that needs 18K BTU?
I currently have a 12,000 BTU TGM A/C inverter in my room. Whenever a technician goes for maintenance, they tell me that a 12k BTU is too small, based on size. I haven't changed it because it worked ...
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Can an inverter be supplied by a battery with lower AH than required for designed VA?
I'm looking to provide backup power to a home CCTV system.
The PoE switch has a maximum rated dissipation of 78W. Each camera draws a peak of 7W. Since each camera is powered by the PoE, I assume the ...
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How I connect my solar panels with a solar inverter?
I have six solar panels with a voltage of 37.4V, with 17.39A and seven solar panels of voltage 42.8V with 11.69A. My solar inverter supports a maximum voltage of 500V and maximum current 100A. I just ...
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Automatic Timer Solar Cutoff
My inverter insists on trying to get the last few rays, even when the inverter is really seeing 0A. With the lithium battery things are worse, in that the custom "back to grid" settings are ...
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Where would a transformer be installed for a Tesup wind turbine? [closed]
2 months ago I ordered the New Tesup 5k Wind Turbine, and the Matching Charge Controller along with a Delta 5k Grid Tie inverter.
I received and installed it 8 weeks ago. I've previously worked as ...
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inverter, air conditioning, electricity savings
Having two AC units of the same BTU and EER, one inverter one non-inverter, is my understanding correct that the inverter unit will still run on less power than the non-inverter unit only due to less ...
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On-Delay, Under and Overvoltage Relay, Contactors AC-7a & AC-7b, Relay - Contactor compatibility, RCCB rated current higher than operational current
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I live in Indonesia, the voltage for residential buildings ranges from 220 V to 230 V, I need help with the installation of the Schneider products. Here is the link to the thread about the ...
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How to connect a whole-house battery?
I've been curious about installing a small home battery (4 - 7 kWh) to take advantage of time-of-use (TOU) billing. The idea is that the battery charges from the grid off-peak and then the home ...
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Is there any downside I need to know when I add new solar panels to existing ones?
I currently have about 12 LG solar panels installed on my roof. They only produce about 3kwh at peak sunlight condition even though they are nominally a 4kwh system. It is because of my house's ...
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Battery backup for 5HP VFD-driven well pump
I have a 5HP well pump that's paired to a Franklin Electric SubDrive Connect VFD - the unit converts input 240VAC single-phase into three-phase power (30hz-60hz). I'd like to put a battery backup in ...
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Inverter switches to fault when sun emerges from cloud
My solar setup consists of 3x270 watt panels, a charge controller, a battery and an inverter. It has mostly worked fine for many years, but I've found that the inverter faults when the sun comes out ...
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How should I ground a shop and a house who both have 2 breaker boxes? One fed by the grid and the other a solar inverter
As the title states, I have a house and a shop both with 240 feeders coming from the grid.
I have solar panels and a solar inverter in the shop.
The solar inverter is powered by panels, a 48v ...
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How do I ground an AC inverter in a RV?
I am working on installing a Victron Energy Phoenix Inverter 800VA into my little teardrop RV. I am doing something men just don't do, I read the Victron Energy Phoenix Inverter manual! Appendix A ...
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Wiring an inverter into an RV using an contactor (AC Relay)
I am working on installing a DC to AC inverter (Victron Energy Phoenix 800VA) in my little teardrop RV such that the Inverter powers ALL the AC ports when it is turned on. The objective is to have it ...
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Flickering lights in house when Inverter switches mode
Question: Is it normal to experience flickering of all lights in the house during the interval that the inverter switches between battery and grid source output modes?
The flickering occurs even ...
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Second hand SolarEdge 10000H-US Grid tied inverter
My question is how I can safely test whether this inverter is functioning. It requires dc optimizers and I haven't purchased them yet but before I go too far purchasing compatible optimizers, I want ...
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Protecting high-capacity inverters
We have a 5 KVA home inverter. The weather, winds and rains, often causes power outages and fluctuations.
Our problem is mostly with the surge has damaged our inverters a few times the most recent ...
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Inverter switches off powering as soon its unplugged from mains
I have a Su-Kam shiny 850 model inverter which powers my home appliances when there's a power outage or if I switch off the mains that supplies power to the inverter. However whenever I unplug the ...
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How to stop inverter from charging battery using grid power and charge battery using only solar panels?
I recently installed solar charge controller and solar panels to the inverter battery system. Here inverter also contains battery charger and other components.
So now instead of connecting inverter ...
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Room lights flickering when I connect my laptop through inverter
I am using amaron 880v inverter with 1500mah Tall tubular battery when I connect my laptop 130w charger then room lights are flickering then I checked with another laptop 90w charger then same lights ...
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Can I connect a normal 12 Volt 150AH C10 battery with a solar 12 volt 150AH C20 battery in series for my 24Volt solar system
I have an Exide invamaster 1500imst short tubeler normal battery of 12 volt, 150AH, C10. Now I want to connect this battery with a solar battery of 12 volt, 150AH, C20.
Can I connect this normal 12 ...
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Lights start flickering on Luminous inverter when I connect my Desktop CPU
I am using luminous solar nxg 1100 solar inverter. At my home, I have 4 fans, one tv, 10 led lights, 3 laptops and a desktop. All the equipments work fine when there is main supply. If there is no ...
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Solar electric home
I want to see if my house can go completely solar. It's a small house with 240v 100A of electricity so about 24kW. I'm still new to this whole solar panel subject, this is my first time utilizing it ...
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Prototype: 12 DC car battery to power standard 120 VAC hand tools
Objective: Today I power my tools (drill, circular-saw, reciprocal saw etc.) in my shed by running a power line from my house. I wish to install solar power panels on my shed; however, before I do ...
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Battery Backup for 240V (USA) Water Well
I have a well pump. I want to build out a battery backup (and, eventually, charge the batteries with solar and, more eventually, move to solar full time).
It's 1/2 horsepower on a 240v circuit. It's a ...
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Running Tesla Powerwall 2 Off-Grid - Excess Solar Question
Above is how I envisage my solar/battery system to be functioning in normal operation.
So I've recently had a Powerwall 2 battery installed into my home. It comes with the gateway device that allows ...
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What kind of inverter do I need for an inductive load?
TLDR: My shed AC unit (maximum draw 8A 120V AC) keeps tripping my 1100W inverter. It seems to have troubles occasionally when the fan turns on. It's pretty much guaranteed to have troubles when the ...
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Inverter connected appliances not working when mains are on
I've the following inverter:
Model: Sukam Shiny
URL: Inverter pics (1st model on the page)
The problem is that even with the mains on, I'm facing two issues:
Inverter runs in Battery mode (Backup)
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Do I need to ground my off-grid house inverter?
I'm building a battery box for my off-grid house, consisting of a 155AH AGM sealed battery, Krieger 1100-watt inverter and a Samlex SEC-1230UL 30A battery charger for using my generator to charge the ...
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Should I wait for my inverter alarm to know when my battery is discharging beyond safe level or should I shut down the loads sooner?
I am using a flooded deep cycle lead acid 24v 450ah battery bank. I don't want to discharge them beyond safe levels so they can last longer. I don't know how to check the state of charge. I have a ...
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12v light amperage
Say i have a 12v light bulb that is 40 watts that can hook directly to 12v battery. I want to know if hooking it directly to the battery uses more amperage than if i were to hook my power inverter to ...
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backup electrical feed to main panel from inverter's GFCI outlet without ground?
I have rigged a 1000watt/120vac inverter to my EV, to use for backup electrical power during short grid outages (the main "traction" battery has 40kwh and the DC-to-DC converter is known to be able to ...
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Determining Bus-Bar Rating for PV Installation
I already have a primary PV inverter connected up through a 40A breaker. I'm looking to expand by adding a second PV inverter. To comply with the 2014 NEC 705.12(D)(2) rule I need to know the panel ...
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Automatically turn off power to home appliances power supply switches to backup generator
Scenario at my home: In my home, refrigerator, washing machine etc and other heavy duty appliances(16A current) and lights and fans are connected to the same power line. It was a mistake done during ...
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Trying to wire my inverter output into my RV panel
I really want to wire my inverter AC output into my RV distribution panel. I have all of the wires run where they need to be. My Idea is to be able to flip the main breaker for shore power to "Off" ...
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Window AC unit LCDI tripping when powered by my solar inverter
I have a small 200w solar power system consisting of a Victron 500VA inverter (900w peak) with a 100ah AGM battery.
I just purchased a 5000BTU/4 amp window unit that draws a peak of 430w according to ...
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Room lights flickering when I connect my desktop computer when running on Inverter
I have all LED lights (tubelights and bulbs) in my house and has been backed up by an inverter (Luminous Eco Volt +1550 with Inverlast 150Ah Tall Tubular Battery).
The issue is when I connect my ...
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Why do the outlets in my solar-powered cottage read "open ground"?
My 5000W pure-sine inverter has its metal shell grounded via lug to a #6 copper wire that goes to ground about 4 ft. away. The leads go to a combiner box that is grounded to the same ground. Besides ...
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Question about new inverter for solar power system
I am new to this community so I hope this is the right place.
I am looking into buying a new inverter for my off grid cabin running from solar. I would like to purchase THIS 3000w inverter. My ...
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