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Say goodbye to cheap electricity
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Question for folks with grid-tie solar:
I just talked to a rep. on the phone about such a system, and she says there's an auto shutoff switch on the DC side of the inverter, that power company regulations require to be there, so that the system is unusable in an outage situation.
Is there a practical way to bypass or hotwire that switch? It's just so stupid to have a bunch of solar panels and not be able to use them when there's an outage.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27212869 you keep the inverter connected to the house and use a transfer switch to the power line. It has to be done correctly lest you electrocute a line worker. I've got the transfer switch already, for my gasoline generator, which I have been running on for the past week since Sandy visited. I guess the idea is to hotwire the solar auto-shutoff switch with power from my private generator?
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