Recent content by Ampster

That has not been my experience in California but my case may be unique. I have had three GT setups and received Permission to operate for one with SCE and for two with PG&E. In all those systems I have increased the capacity after the fact and never got a phone call or a message from either...

That is better than the 205 miles on my 2019Tesla Model 3 which I have taken on Road Trips.

I got logged on to the new mysolark website with my PVPro credentials but could not enter serial number or key so I will have to wait for SolArk to do that in May.

I am not familiar with the different ranges of the Leaf, but If I recall they are under 100 miles which means road trips of any length, even with a fast DC charging connection are going to take a long time. If I do recall many Chademo DC fast chargers were limited to 50 kW. Years ago I had a...

Is there no remote way to change charging level on a Leaf? If not that would work, if the the generic Leaf EVSE has the ability to take 120 and 240 volts?

I used to be with OhmConnect, years ago but they only compensated me for dropping load during that time frame. Back then I was not able to control export like I can do know, maybe I should look into it again to offset the fixed charge that is coming this summer. This almost sounds like what...

I had a somwhat similar situation in that my existing system was permitted three years earlier and noted in the plans for the new inverter. Interpretations vary for each jurisdiction but the only thing the inspector might be concerned about is that DC cables need to be in conduit whereas your...

I got the TMobile Internet for a commercial application where all I needed was to upload solar production from two inverters and occasionally video clips. Speed did not matter but the price could not be beat. Plus it was a multi tenant building with either Frontier or Comcast and each tenant...

What I found was interesting in my relatively tame environment where the wind speed never gets above 50 MPH and even then there are some other buildings close enought that they slow the wind a bit. I started with the lightest rail and it required a lot of fasteners. By going to the next larger...

I can imaging in some locations in the Carribean, winds from typical hurricanes exceeding 100 MPH. I don't know where in the Carribean hurricane winds are most likely but a friend spent a couple days in a concrete bunker as the eye passed through where he had anchored his boat. He said the...

I am not a wind professional, but Ironridge gives engineering calculations on their site. Use the highest wind speed in your area and it will calculate spacing of fasteners. You can run both scenarios. The heavier rail typically allows wider spacing of fasteners but the fasteners may need to go...

I was responding to your post. This thread is about grid forming inverters which operate within narrow voltage and frequency specifications depending on which country they operate in. The user typically has no control over those parameters. That picture is showing what I would describe as a...

I do not know what kind of micrigrid you are contemplating but the power flows from the inverter to the devices drawing current. It is simple physics. The inverter produces enough power to supply those loads.

Yes that is What my Enphase IQ7s do. The IQ7s have no neutral so you can't pull 120v off them direct but since they are grid tied, the grid provides the neutral. In addition, in my case the IQ7s pass through my SolArk which also has a neutral.

And to add to that, the shadow will be longer, the further North you are. Here is an online calculator: https://planetcalc.com/1875/