Recent content by Cmiller

If that is strictly an inverter "combiner" panel, then your 2x 60A breaker would really end up feeding the panel with 120A. So all good. 🙂 P.S. if you want a bypass, it is possible to use (2) QO2DTI breaker interlocks, with (3) breakers positioned inv1-backup-inv2. Definitely not a manufacturer...

Makes sense. Cool, I have been tempted to buy an electric cooktop and add solar to cut my gas consumption.... Not sure that my wife would be interested though, as we would likely need to keep the gas stove for winter months with less solar. LOL I have been tempted with one of these as well...

@Carlos_Sol-Ark you are very helpful, and I greatly appreciate that! I might try to DM you tomorrow sometime with some specific things we are running into to see if you have any ideas on solutions for me.

Double check the internal CT sensors on the grid input wires going from grid terminal blocks up into the Sol-Ark. I had one unit that showed no load or grid numbers whenever we pulled power from the Grid and it turned out those CTs didn't have the wires going through them. I'm NOT talking about...

Plug on neutral is so nice! Homeline series has this as well! It cleans up a panel nicely with regular breakers even, and then if you use plug on neutral gfci and afci breakers, you don't have all the curly wires cluttering the gutter where you want to run the next wire down through!

Nope, doesn't take more than 2.0 hands. Lol That goes for both QO and Homeline! I would almost say the Homeline breakers are a hair less "saggy" than the QO ones, to be honest.

I have seen Homeline breaker panels that were probably 20+ years old with no issues. We (company I work for) have installed them for nearly 15 years with only one ever failing that I can remember, and that was because there was a "leak" where water ran into the basement through a crack where the...

Yes, all Magnum RD series are modified. MS series are pure sine. ME series I believ are modified as well. I have seen RD inverters in use for quite a few years and seem pretty rock solid all-in-all if you have a use for modified sine wave. Just remember to go easy on the transfer relay, just...

A few things to keep in mind when looking at the whole 200A vs 100A passthrough subject: The goal is usually to have a flicker free transfer to inverter when grid goes down. If this happens you won't find out grid is down, and therefore you won't manually manage peak loads! For a DIY install...

Electric stove and electric water heater together will likely nearly max out 12kW of inverter. That's without anything else running. Heat pump dryer and washer, plus will pump will soon add around 2kW yet. Grundfos well pump alone will be between 600-1500w depending on which specific model you...

You are right. I phrased that wrong. But gen limit goes a long way! And works a lot better than no limit option!

That is correct! And I think this option would be 10x better than what we have now! That "old" way at least allowed gen shave to happen, if grid shave wasn't needed. The "new" way today, pretty well all gen functionality of the gen port is out the door.

Correct. That's my whole point. Fix the gen port issues. Use gen port for the gen. Add logic to shut down the gen when grid comes back on, on the grid port. Maybe you didn't catch the whole conversation around gen limit not working. It's literally "no longer supported" since the last firmware...

Here is a screenshot of a Kohler transfer switch spec sheet. Looks like 100ms. I am fairly certain the Sol-Ark would catch that. Though it's still something to keep in consideration. Schneider XWs will shut down gen that is feeding into gen input, when grid comes back on. When gen terminal...

That's my concern, though I'm thinking Sol-Ark is probably quick enough to catch the power glitch in transfer between grid and gen. I don't think that is how the Sol-Ark is set up. I believe it simply has a dpst contactor for each leg, and simply syncs and connects up. So transfer from grid to...