Todd,
Come on now! Times have changed. People expect more from their systems now, and lower module costs make that possible. It's not the electric clocks per se - it's everything else that we come to want on all the time, that happens to also have a clock in it. I don't know anyone any more with a modern system whose inverter ever goes into sleep mode.

With three teenagers who have grown up in the digital age, rural wireless, all the electronics, my off-grid home has about an 80W continuous tare load. Maybe ten years ago (kids were small), we had no tare in the winter, but even then it never went to sleep. And we let all or most of the phantom loads stay on during the rest of the year when we have an excess of PV energy.
Allan

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On 4/4/2011 8:46 PM, toddc...@finestplanet.com wrote:
I wasn't going to say anything, but electric clocks off-grid? really???

Todd



On Monday, April 4, 2011 6:20pm, "Kent Osterberg" <k...@coveoregon.com> said:

> Kris,
>
> Even with generators using an electronic governor, the frequency changes
> with load. Also while inverters are stable their frequency is not as
> accurate as utility power. Clocks that use the ac frequency as the time
> standard will not work reliably when powered with off-grid power. Such
> should be disclosed in any contract to install an off-grid power system.
>
> Kent Osterberg
> Blue Mountain Solar
>
>
> Kristopher Schmid wrote:
> > I have an off-grid client who tells me that his clocks lose about 1 minute
> > per hour while he is running his backup generator. Has anyone seen this
> > before? Do clocks use the zero crossing on a 60Hz wave for keeping time and
> > could a frequency discrepency in the generator cause this?
> >
> > My thanks to the brain trust...
> >
> > Kris
> >
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