Re: [RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread frenergy
There are many places these days where you can charge your car for free. I believe the thinking is you get a few KW's from the charger at the mall (not that many, they aren't very fast chargers), however the mall is picking your pocket (I mean selling you their goods) while you're shopping

Re: [RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread Glenn Burt
I think the Pika Energy also works at a high voltage with their batteries. Technology seems to be quite similar to Store Edge. -Original Message- From: "Brian Teitelbaum" Sent: ‎2/‎22/‎2017 15:00 To: "RE-wrenches" Subject:

Re: [RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread Jerry Shafer
Wrenches I agree with Brian, l get this question from customers all the time going back many years. First of all, my questions in responce start with why, maybe peak load sheding ok, second question now what, you did the peak shed now you need to recharge that battery. Last thing you you should do

Re: [RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread August Goers
Larry – My immediate thought is that you would need a listed grid tied inverter designed for the purpose of connecting to this type of battery and inverting to the grid. A regular PV inverter won’t cut it since it is designed to MPT PV modules. The SolarEdge StorEdge product sounds like the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread Brian Teitelbaum
Hi Larry, This is not a new idea. It’s called “Vehicle-to-Grid” or “V2G”, and is a big subject of discussion in Europe. If everyone had an electric vehicle in their driveway, it would represent a huge (yuge?) distributed battery bank over the whole country. I think that’s a great idea. As

[RE-wrenches] Discharging a high voltage battery

2017-02-22 Thread Starlight Solar Power Systems
Hello Wrenches, Someone has asked me about discharging their EV battery into the grid. They have an existing grit tie system. What they want to do is connect a 5kW grid tie inverter to their 340 volt, 32kWh EV battery bank and feed the grid to discharge the battery. Why was not discussed but

[RE-wrenches] Solar World 325s

2017-02-22 Thread Solar Energy Solutions
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