Pinto Yates
About 2 steps from off-grid
I have multiple electric meters on my property and am trying to ween myself from the grid one at a time.
My property originally had a mobile home and 100A meter service 325 feet from the primary power pole. In 2022 I built a new home about 250 feet away from the mobile home. For this home I installed a second 200A service but located the meter out near the primary power pole and transformer, instead of on the side of my new house. I then added 200A cut off panel at the meter and ran the 200A service underground 330’ back to the new house.
My goal is to run the new home completely off grid and I purchased a Eg4 6000ex with 25kWh of batteries and it will run everything fine since most of my heavier appliances run off propane. I’ve installed an interlock on my indoor service panel with 40A input breaker for the inverter. Tested it out and it seems to work fine With all my loads running.
My goal is to run the new home 100% off grid. Not interested in any net metering as my power Co. is terrible. I plan to leave the mobile home service on.
I have multiple questions.
1. Are there any potential issues to consider if I run underground power from the 100A mobile home to my new home to exclusively serve to power a battery charger to use to replenish my batteries in case of low solar availability?
2. Would there there be issues using this power from the other meter to grid feed the inverter? Based on where my service panel was installed in the new house, I‘d like to avoid using a critical loads panel as all my loads in the main panel can be used And I can safely cut off grid power with the interlock+cut off breaker at meter.
3. Since both meters have earth ground rods and ground bonded neutrals, is this a problem since they are coming off the same pole transformer?
4. I found that the electricians (2 different ones) left the green bonding screw in both the 200A cut off panel and a second one in my new homes interior 200A service panel. That seems wrong, so should the second bonding screw be removed since that panel is technically the sub panel?
5. There’s no earth ground at my new house since the ground rod is 330’ away at the 200A meter is this too far To effectively ground my inverter and solar equipment? Im sure multiple meters are located this close together is small lot subdivisions but I’m not sure how far my solar equipment can be from the earth ground rod for effective grounding.
Again, my goal would be to run main house with meter turned off using inverter/battery supplemented with power from solar panels (3kW now upgrading to 8kW shortly) and remotely powered battery charging. Looking for the simplest solution within the bounds of safety. Where I live there are zero inspections or code requirements but I strive to adhere to the (older) NEC standards.
thanks!
My property originally had a mobile home and 100A meter service 325 feet from the primary power pole. In 2022 I built a new home about 250 feet away from the mobile home. For this home I installed a second 200A service but located the meter out near the primary power pole and transformer, instead of on the side of my new house. I then added 200A cut off panel at the meter and ran the 200A service underground 330’ back to the new house.
My goal is to run the new home completely off grid and I purchased a Eg4 6000ex with 25kWh of batteries and it will run everything fine since most of my heavier appliances run off propane. I’ve installed an interlock on my indoor service panel with 40A input breaker for the inverter. Tested it out and it seems to work fine With all my loads running.
My goal is to run the new home 100% off grid. Not interested in any net metering as my power Co. is terrible. I plan to leave the mobile home service on.
I have multiple questions.
1. Are there any potential issues to consider if I run underground power from the 100A mobile home to my new home to exclusively serve to power a battery charger to use to replenish my batteries in case of low solar availability?
2. Would there there be issues using this power from the other meter to grid feed the inverter? Based on where my service panel was installed in the new house, I‘d like to avoid using a critical loads panel as all my loads in the main panel can be used And I can safely cut off grid power with the interlock+cut off breaker at meter.
3. Since both meters have earth ground rods and ground bonded neutrals, is this a problem since they are coming off the same pole transformer?
4. I found that the electricians (2 different ones) left the green bonding screw in both the 200A cut off panel and a second one in my new homes interior 200A service panel. That seems wrong, so should the second bonding screw be removed since that panel is technically the sub panel?
5. There’s no earth ground at my new house since the ground rod is 330’ away at the 200A meter is this too far To effectively ground my inverter and solar equipment? Im sure multiple meters are located this close together is small lot subdivisions but I’m not sure how far my solar equipment can be from the earth ground rod for effective grounding.
Again, my goal would be to run main house with meter turned off using inverter/battery supplemented with power from solar panels (3kW now upgrading to 8kW shortly) and remotely powered battery charging. Looking for the simplest solution within the bounds of safety. Where I live there are zero inspections or code requirements but I strive to adhere to the (older) NEC standards.
thanks!