Re: [RE-wrenches] Pika T701 & X3001 GT Inverter

2022-12-06 Thread Antony Tersol via RE-wrenches
We've received support on all (repairs, programming information, and warranty issues). We had become certified dealers with Generac after they acquired Pika, and have continued to sell the systems now that they are Generac. Early on, we were speaking with the same support people from Pika, who we

Re: [RE-wrenches] California NEM3 specific question

2023-03-04 Thread Antony Tersol via RE-wrenches
In the early days of California net metering, PGE distributed the net metering agreement as pdfs that were scans of printouts of the forms, meaning essentially that each page was an image, and short of using image-to-text software, one couldn't extract from, nor do a search on, the text. This mean

Re: [RE-wrenches] PV watts question

2025-01-27 Thread Antony Tersol via RE-wrenches
As Mike pointed out, in PV watts one sets the DC size, and cannot explicitly set the inverter capacity. Changing the DC/AC ratio from 1.2 to 1.5 is implicitly decreasing the inverter max output by 20%. Example: DC 4.8 kW DC/AC ratio 1.2 => inverter is 4 kW DC/AC ratio 1.5 => inverter is 3.2 kW

Re: [RE-wrenches] PG&E NEM3.0

2025-01-14 Thread Antony Tersol via RE-wrenches
The official name is no longer NEM3.0. That's the unofficial term. It is no longer "Net Energy Metering", and is officially "Solar Billing Tariff" (SBT). The problem isn't TOU so much as no longer compensating at retail rates for exports. As related above, the compensation is supposed to be at s