Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Jay
Installing PV/inverters to a generator is a common practice. One must make sure you don’t ever have more PV/inverter than load to prevent either generator damage or shut down. I worked on a big project that did actually shut the generator down, it tried to run backwards as the PV power exceede

Re: [RE-wrenches] Wellpump VS Radian

2021-05-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
My real world input is I use the XW for anything hard to start. XW is a single 6.8KW low frequency design that can supply 12KW for a minute. Radian is (2) 4KW inverters and I have found that XW is the best for this. Stacking often is not the answer for difficult loads. My experience only with de

Re: [RE-wrenches] Xantrex GT250 repair

2021-05-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
These were discontinued at least 5 years back. The links may help you! To find this you would go to the Schneider solar website, go to support, selct discontinued products. STAY AWAY FROM THE CORPORATE WEBSITE!!! It will not help you. https://solar.schneider-electric.com/netsuite/ Below is m

Re: [RE-wrenches] Wellpump VS Radian

2021-05-25 Thread chris
Well, here at the Oasis we have a battery-based grid-tie system. My entire home/office runs through the inverter, it's a single Radian, older 8048 that was installed around 2014. In 2016 I had to have a new well drilled (our water table's dropping here in the valley), and had to go from 186 ft

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Jerry Shafer
Not kidding, but not in reference of wildfires either. Installing inverters directly connected to the gennys is in the past lead to smoke. Jerry On Tue, May 25, 2021, 8:33 AM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar < offgridso...@sti.net> wrote: > In case you are near me and not kidding Jerry, I see smoke al

[RE-wrenches] Xantrex GT250 repair

2021-05-25 Thread William Miller
Friends: I am working on a Xantrex GT250 negative ground that is in need of repair. I have been having some difficulty navigating the Schnieder corporate system. Do any of you have experience with this inverter that you might be willing to share with me? We could chat or correspond outside of

[RE-wrenches] Wellpump VS Radian

2021-05-25 Thread frenergy
I need some actual off-grid experience some of you wrenches may have had with with a (or 2) Radian(s) starting and running a 3HP, 230Volt, single phase, 3-wire submersible well pump.  It would be starting against a 50-100 foot static level in the well and a pressure in the pressure tank of 35ps

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
In case you are near me and not kidding Jerry, I see smoke alot of it! For others during fire season this is the tool I use for finding the fire source. Much faster than anything else I have tried. The upper right of the display shows a red area that is the fire. https://caltopo.com/map.html#l

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Jerry Shafer
I can smell smoke from here On Tue, May 25, 2021, 6:48 AM Jason Szumlanski < ja...@floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote: > Has anyone tried to AC couple these microinverters with a generator output > to reduce fuel consumption? They claim it can be done with their > "volt-watt" mode. I'm skeptical

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Jason Szumlanski
Go to https://www.chiliconpower.com/support-materials And check out the AC Coupling guide. They say clearly that you can do this with their product. That took me by surprise. Jason On Tue, May 25, 2021, 10:02 AM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar < offgridso...@sti.net> wrote: > Explain more please.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
Explain more please. We try to never use generators out this way, but with fire season I am always interested for some of my clients. Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar "we go where powerlines don't" http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/ [1] e-mail offgridso...@sti.net [2] text 209 813 0060 On Tue, 2

[RE-wrenches] Chilicon Microinverters AC Coupled with Generators

2021-05-25 Thread Jason Szumlanski
Has anyone tried to AC couple these microinverters with a generator output to reduce fuel consumption? They claim it can be done with their "volt-watt" mode. I'm skeptical but interested nonetheless. Jason Szumlanski Florida Solar Design Group NABCEP PVIP __