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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

Here's the classic 3-phase diagram of voltage against time, which will make better sense of Derek's explanations. I've just drawn this from scra...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

... which it doesn't, because the Neutral is rarely fused. Instead, the Neutral wire gets hot, which eventually creates thermal breakdown of the ins...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

Yes... and most of that will be down to ignorance. When I see an outage pop up on the NGED Regional alert page, I tend to check where it actually is...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

And you're very unlikely to! There are 230,000 ground-mounted local substation transformers and a further 320,000 pole-mounted. Only a few hundred...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

To underline those comments from @derek-m 19kW equates to 80A, which is the size of Service Fuse being deployed by DNOs when they get called to site f...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

I think both @david999 and @bretix are missing something which I've found an essential part of my route to understanding how this green technology pro...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

Yes, Canadian Solar is ok @david999 How do you feel about the short-circuit current of those panels being slightly greater than the 13.5A maximum ra...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

@ bretix This is type of fuse-holder which attempts to double-up as a contact breaker. You pull the top handle towards you and the fuses get pulled...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

I've just checked the PV-input specifications for your 3-phase 10kW inverter @bretix Like @david999 you have two MPPT inputs,but in your case ...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

You may wonder why it is that your inverter is rated for a maximum 3600W output,and yet each of the two PV inputs can take up to 550v x 13.5A which co...

2 years ago
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

Or, if you'd like a more technical answer... PV panels that you're likely to consider for rooftops have three electrical parameters which we need to...

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