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The anti islanding removes a significant risk, and obviously confronts most people's intended desires. A turn switch at the fuse box might get over that, other
by ggm 1y ago
The anti islanding removes a significant risk, and obviously confronts most people's intended desires.
A turn switch at the fuse box might get over that, otherwise you're seeking the plug behind the fridge freezer to plug it directly into the "UPS" when the bad thing happens.
- TheCleric 1y agoYeah I had neighbors who despite the fact that they had solar, couldn’t use them when we lost power last year for Helene. And I know at my house I have a master cut off switch.
- potato3732842 1y agoEvery house has a master switch if you really want it to. Pull the meter. Also makes a great place to a) cable your genset to b) daisy chain house to house (to share power between houses if one has a genset)
- gizmo686 1y agoI don't see how to solve the problem while keeping it as a plug-and-play product. For obvious reasons, we need it to not backpower the grid during an outage. In theory, we could have the owner shut off their main breaker, then override the inverters lock-out. However, any inverter that allows that cannot be allowed on the market, because someone is going to flip the switch on the inverter without flipping the main breaker. We would need the switch on the breaker to communicate over to the inverter to allow for safe operations in an outage. We could probably do that communication over the existing power lines, but you would still need an electrician to modify the fuse box to do so; which defeats half the point of plug-and-play solar.