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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That doesn’t really make sense, since an off-grid inverter literally cannot backfeed. It’s essentially just a computer UPS on steroids. It accepts the grid as an input that it can pass through but it’s not possible for it to push energy back to the grid.

    I mean yes if you decided to hook its output directly up to your Mains panel without separation you would be back feeding. But only for maybe a few minutes at most as you would also destroy your inverter because it has no mechanism to synchronize the output with the mains since it’s not designed to backfeed

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      1 year ago

      because it has no mechanism to synchronize the output with the mains since it’s not designed to backfeed

      It’s 120v, there’s nothing to synchronize? Not sure what you’re talking about here. Same power is coming from the inverter, battery, grid, generator…

      I mean yes if you decided to hook its output directly up to your Mains panel without separation

      This is standard practice. Inverter - > monitoring - > maybe a knife disconnect - > main panel.