I would imagine that if the "islanding device" fails, then it just shuts down. Grid tie inverters normally won't produce any power if they aren't getting power from the grid to sync to. If there's battery backup involved, there would obviously be more to it, but I'd think that would be pretty much the same as a backup generator setup.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > I just read about this. It's apparently been a big thing in the EU, and > Utah just approved it for residential installations with "almost" no > permit requirements. A company (forget the name) is trying to get it > going in several municipalities around the SF Bay Area. > > You just plug the whole thing into a dedicated circuit, and you have a > small-scale solar installation. Bada bing. Probably only good for a few > hundred watts, but the simple permitting eliminates the one big hurdle > for most solar installs. > > The one thing I don't understand is it requires an "islanding device" > that prevents it from backfeeding onto the grid. What happens when the > islanding device fails? Does it have some kind of fail safe? > > > -- > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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