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Well that amounted to a big nothing burger. We submitted the county inspection and in ten days got our permission to operate. The only goal to placing the big red warning banner at the top of the application page was to seed doubt and hopefully dissuade people from installing a larger system. Im...

From FPL Net metering application page. "The system production is larger than your annual energy usage. The system size must be reduced prior to FPL approval." I am being told by FPL that my project may not be approved unless I reduce the size of the array. I currently have a whopping 6ea. 330W...

This thread went deep quick, glad i’m showing up relatively early. I had the idea years ago to bypass the microinverters when the grid was down with inline mc4 t connectors on the dc panel wiring for off grid use. Then i wondered about a small battery under each panel in parallel with the...

re: “Lugs” Yes, this is the better way to do this. Thanks

Thanks for that. Seems the PLC is a key part and would probably be my barrier to entry. I like the DC for charging the batteries. If you wanted more than 20A to backfeed the main you could derate your main panel breaker. When off grid how does everything function? I assume the xw uses frequency...

Excruciatingly long thread. Can you give guidanice on your system setup?…a one-line diagram of your system? Or simple description? ok, I’ll start looking through the thread again…seems like you’ve made a few changes over time.

Make no mistake, $ENPH is a for profit publicly traded company whose sole purpose is to increase shareholder value. By keeping people inside your ecosystem you maximize profit. I am willing to pay more for a product that seamlessly works with all the other parts of my system with a warranty from...

Interesting…

The combiner box is not required for a system to function. The gateway is only required if you want monitoring(I believe) for grid tied only systems. https://enphase.com/store/communication/iq-gateway-and-combiner/commercial-iq-gateway What are the voltages in Finland? Are they wye or delta...

I agree on the portable battery front. I would be very impressed if enphase sent a product to Will for review and constructive criticism.

I recommend visiting university.enphase.com for training and certification. This process should answer all your questions.

Did some functional testing by switching off main breaker under similar conditions and system performed flawlessly with no delays. So far we have stayed in self-consumption mode with a 50% discharge limit. Adding batteries made it obvious we need more solar. Thanks for your input Svetz.

Svetz, what settings are you using for your backup mode...self consumption, full backup...? How long does it take to go off grid when the grid fails in each mode? We recently installed one encharge 10t and controller 2. Our first outage this morning while in self consumption mode took 10...

The reliance manual transfer switch would be redundant to the enphase controller. But how do you expect they world “work with” each other?

Curious if the reliance transfer switch is on the grid side of the enphase controller or on the load side?