Glad I bumped into this thread. I am trying to do a Very Similar thing with my place. I want to put in an Off grid inverter but have the AC in as a grid feed, and then use existing 6.6kw solar as a starting point. So I have been all over Andy's Garage, AS5139 and AS5033 ans AS 3000, I have a...
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Sorry for the late late late reply the mate of a mate never turned up, didnt want a bar of it....Good news is there is a post on the vic community forum that says the CEC approval is about 4weeks off. So Mid Sept23 we should be good to go....well in a couple months anyway.
In the mean...
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I am no expert, and this is not legal advice. I am going through this at the moment. I have two points of comment.
1. There needs to be segregation between the Grid Supply and the inverter supplied appliances in the switchboard. Most metal DB's (distribution Board) on the front of the home...
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In Australia / NewZeland we need to comply to the regs 5139, which require a "Material Safety Data Sheet" for the emergency service to know how to deal with the Lifepo4 batteries in an emergency. Regardless if its an offgrid or ongrid system.
I have CATL 280LF cells, does anyone have a SDS...
Have alook at the common Brands, Growatt are the cheapest in Aus, they do the job at a budget price and a budget quality, there are plenty of middle of the row hybrid inverters like SMA, etc. BUT before outlaying the cash, check the CEC web site, there is link to compliant inverters to grid...
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I live in Australia, and I really like Victron gear the way it seamlessly integrates and the VRM can provide the data anywhere.
About 18months agao I designed a project that would take my house partially offgrid at first and over time and finance permitting move to full offgrid. So I put...