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Comment Re:Split phase power (Score 1) 230

A solar system does not produce 240V.
It produces 24V or 48V. Of course you could wire it to make 96V ...
However: DC has some issues ... so no one in his sane mind would have a 96V or higher voltage system.

And the inverter ups it to 110, or 240 ... depending where you are and which switch you select on the inverter.

Comment Re:Why did they have to? (Score 1) 230

Why did this require legislative approval? If you want to plug something in at your house, who's to say you can't?
The family of the guy who died during a power outage, who got electrocuted by your solar installation feeding into the grid outside of your house - knowing: there is no power on the grid. But he is wrong. And dead now.

Not sure if you are an idiot. Your posts sometimes make sense.

This post: does not make any sense.

Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 1) 230

Plug in systems usually have two outlets:
- the plug going into your wall, in Germany restricted to 800W (the article mentions 1200W in California)
- a second "of grid" outlet.

No one forces you to put the main plug into your wall. You can use the of grid outlet to power stuff like fridge and computers etc.

Regarding batteries, there is an imminent price collapse with the new CATL and BYD sodium batteries. Unless you are in dire need, I would postpone battery installations to next year.

Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 1) 230

That is unfortunately not true.
Solar panels build _into_ the roof are extremely expensive.
Considering that he is reworking/replacing a roof that is not even 20 years old, putting solar on it right now means: in another 20 years he has to remove the solar installation to get again a new roof.

You know why Americans hate Cuba? Because all the iconic stuff "made in America", like cars and motorbikes, even fridges - eating energy like mad - but going like a locomotives: are basically running since 50 to 100 years just fine in Cuba.

Open a random Cuba post, and you see American cars from 1955 ... and in our days, they can not even build a house that survives a tornado or a roof that lasts a few hundred years.

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