It would be difficult to know what the inverters are doing without a Multigate in the circuit. There is no monitoring, LED indicators, or other means to see the status of the inverters. It would require a third party meter to see if there was current flow or not. My hunch is that the inverters would not connect to the grid at all, but I have not tested that inadvertently or on purpose.
Other that the monitoring my SMA micros have been rock solid for a couple of years, too bad they are discontinued. I still have a dozen beta test units and multigate sitting in the basement if someone knows of a use for them. They are not listed. Brad On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > The SMA installation manual is clear that the Multigate is an integral > part of the micorinverter system and must be installed with the > microinverters. It is clear that the Multigate is required to meter and > monitor the microinverter system. > > I would never advocate that anyone attempt to deviate from these > manufacture instructions. However, I wonder if anyone has incidentally, > momentarily, bypassed the connection through the Multigate and if so, did > they observe whether or not the microinverters happened to export power to > the AC system in this configuration? > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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