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Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, at about 7:15p.m., the local Mains power went out and I was 
> left in darkness. Surprise, surprise, when the Mains back on about a min 
> later, so did my Power. At about 10:00p.m., when I checked my Power 
> System, the battery was still indicating over 60% full.
> 
> So this morning I rang the Solar Battery Group, the supply/install firm, 
> and they said the Solar Battery arrangement had worked as expected. The 
> system wasn't meant to maintain power in place of Mains power, it was 
> only meant to supply power WHEN THE MAINS WAS AVAILABLE so "in place of" 
> NOT "in the absence of" mains power.

Yes to power the house when the grid's down you're required to have
extra circuitry to make sure that it definately can't feed power
back into the grid and zap someone working on the line.

> The SOLAR BATTERY GROUP will, however, sell you, for $1,300 or so, an 
> optional extra, a Power Outlet connected directly to the Battery System 
> which will supply up to 3kW maximum .... but, still, during an outage, 
> you'd have to go out to the Battery (or the special power outlet 
> adjacent to it) with a extension cord to plug in your most desireable 
> (less than 3kW) devices!!

I guess that's a lazy way of them meeting the requirements, some
people (in Australia) do have systems that switch over the house
wiring to battery/solar when the mains goes out, but I guess that's
not offered by all installers. It is a surprisingly expensive option
from what I saw online.

An alternative to their system would be to just buy a UPS. It'll
need a separate battery, but you could keep it inside, and it would
switch over automatically for devices connected to it.

> I suppose, eventually (if I live long enough), I'll get back my $8,000 
> for the battery and $2,500 (I think) for the original Solar Panels .... 
> but who knows!! ;-(
> 
> Just FYI .... if you are considering getting a Battery installed.

It looked too doubtful that I could make back my money before the
batteries died when I considered it. But I haven't even got around
to setting my solar panels up yet to be honest, too many other
jobs.

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Just for your information ..... Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2024-01-05 19:20 +1100
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