That sounds like a raw deal

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> On Aug 14, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Bobby Keeland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Our grid-tied inverters just mostly shut the solar panels down when the grid 
> is down. As long as the sun is shining we have two special outlets that will 
> have power after we switch them on to power them. These special outlets have 
> no power when the grid is working. When the grid is back up we then switch 
> those outlets back off and plug freezer back into a regular outlet. This 
> solar module/inverter system was installed in 2014.
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 2:06 PM paul dove via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I thought grid tied inverters shutdown the solar panels when no grid power 
>> is detected.
>> 
>> 
>>     On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 12:50:01 AM CDT, Cor van de Water via EV 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:  
>> 
>>  All grid tie central inverters (so, not the micro inverters) take input 
>> voltage above 400V so they can direct switch the AC output without 
>> transformers. Input is typically up to 1000V these days.
>> I plan on installing solar strings of at least 400V so that I can always 
>> charge my EVs by direct wiring the panels to the battery, in case there is 
>> no grid and I need energy in my EV.
>> I also have a large UPS that is intended to run with 2x 192V lead-acid 
>> batteries (it is an older model double conversion UPS) so I am planning to 
>> connect it to a Leaf pack with center tap so it can both charge the pack as 
>> well as island like any UPS to feed any critical loads in the house. I need 
>> to see if it has the power saving setting where it is not always double 
>> converting (wasting power) and just keeps the battery charged, but feeds the 
>> incoming power through until there is a power loss, then it instantly starts 
>> converting battery power to output without even losing the output.
>> With such a setup, it would be possible to use solar in 2 ways: DC only to 
>> directly charge the UPS batteries (but needs overcharge protection and waste 
>> power as soon as batteries are full) or the usual string inverter generating 
>> AC to feed back into the grid and independently run the UPS to keep the 
>> batteries charged and generate uninterrupted power. Only drawback is that 
>> during an outage, the solar inverter trips and does not generate power, but 
>> this should happen only rarely.
>> 
>> Cor.
>> 
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>> 
>> From: Robert Bruninga via EV
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 7:06 PM
>> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List
>> Cc: Robert Bruninga; jkenny23
>> Subject: Re: [EVDL] FW: PowerWheels idea (Vehicle-to-home)
>> 
>> Thaniks.  Yes, I got it wrong.  I updated the web page .
>> 
>> So now a use leaf is about 2.3 power walls but a bit over half the price.
>> Thanks for the tip.
>> 
>> bob
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EV <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jkenny23 via EV
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 6:31 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: jkenny23 <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [EVDL] FW: PowerWheels idea (Vehicle-to-home)
>> 
>> Minor correction, your 3 year old Leaf is only 30kWH max (with less
>> actually usable, limited by on-board BMS). It would only take a bit of
>> clever reverse engineering to make use of ChaDeMo capable Leafs by
>> controlling the contactor to close and feeding a high voltage solar grid
>> tie inverter (I believe there are models that can use up to 400V already).
>> Then you could use up to 20kW comfortably.
>> 
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