Re: [RE-wrenches] 705.95(B) and Sunny Boys - current on Neutral?

2019-11-26 Thread Jeff Clearwater
Hi Scot and Mike, Yes It is terribly worded - an AHJ could easily read it and come away with the impression that only the TL and TriPower required the neutral only for instrumentation and voltage and phase detection - implying the rest used the neutral for current. And your right what do the

Re: [RE-wrenches] 705.95(B) and Sunny Boys - current on Neutral?

2019-11-26 Thread scot.arey
Mike, Thanks for posting the note, but I find the wording to be less than fully clear. According to this note, the "The transformer-less series of inverters named Sunny Boy TL-US-12, Sunny Boy TL-US-22 and Sunny Tripower 12/15/20/24000TL-US-10 have a neutral connection that is required at insta

Re: [RE-wrenches] automatic transfer switches

2019-11-26 Thread Chris Mason
If you only want to change over, why not use a contactor with three poles, a NO and NC contact? that will switch instantly. Use Utility to power the coil, it will switch to utility when the power is restored. On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:57 AM Jerry Shafer wrote: > There is the SMA Automatic transf

Re: [RE-wrenches] automatic transfer switches

2019-11-26 Thread Mac Lewis
Hi Bill, We just did something like this with a hydro plant and backup solar site. We ended up using a Kohler RDT transfer switch with the accessory board. With the accessory board, its possible to adjust down to about ~1 second transfer, and without the accessory board, its ~3 second transfer. T