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re: exporting to grid. I found something called "guerilla net metering". Apparently we all are led to believe there's something the power companies do that allow you to connect. This is not true in some case. I don't recommend doing without asking. The power company guy said if the meter...

Sorry about this clueless and lazy reply. Maybe they should get their heads together and voice conference you in. It may have gone over better if you see their smiles (video conferencing and sympathy that you invested so much into this). Emails is old school, it's a conduit for email...

You either pay and maintain your own battery or you use the grid "battery". I think when costs is accounted for the result is the same. The distinguishing factors are then merely convenience and control - you control your own power source, etc. With Group Net Metering, you can share your...

He thinks like he's thinking 3 phases. For the load side of the transformer, current on the common wire - the neutral is the the sum of two parallel circuits.

Please DELETE Incorrect assumption, this is about DC not AC: My question is how do we make it ourselves. Just need a one way blending of the micro-inverter and grid power. AC has a startup capacitor to handle surge. Some modern AC are inverter units and don't really have large surge...

I want to post genuine constructive feedback but I need your permission to do it. I can't figure out whether you're still active recently or not.

Anyone experimenting with custom dipping of outside coil in anti-freeze and coat flat faced anti-freeze bath with icephobic spray?

Let me go back to basic and my apologies if I'm completely off mark here. Let's say inside the transformer there are two B fields fighting one another and secondary coil can only take so much resistive loads. If he and his neighbors use too much power, this is essentially a short and incurs a...

I've taken about 20 "cold" showers so far. It's actually room temp water that goes through a disconnected water heater. There's a temp. difference between cold water from the well and room temp water. It takes about 4 rinses for the soap to no longer get slippery. Turn off the water between...

I like this. Good defense against haill and snow. I'm thinking of giving up efficiency and do both sides facing east and west.

I like it. I thought of vertical mount for my project as well. Link the poles together for added strength. Link them under the panels and two steel cables higher at the level of the panels.

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Ok, so one way to make a cheap hybrid feed for old fashioned "non-hybrid" heat pump is to get a beefy A/C adapter and tie it parallel to the solar output. Get some beefy diodes to prevent backfeed to the panel and to the A/C adapter. One can probably get away with this for about a couple...

For the first time ever the grid is not so centralized. Everyone either off-grid of contributing to distributed generation. This has driven so much innovation in the area of power generation that the traditional power companies are struggling to keep up. YouTube and social media...