The Greg's Grid Tie Solar Project

[Gregski]

[wipes coffee off his monitor screen] as I pointed out in one of my recent videos, we just started converting to the metric system 50 years ago, give us time bro! plus it's so much more easier to remember water freezes at 32° Fahrvergnügens than 0°Caesars

[arber333]

..... it's so much more easier to remember water freezes at 32° Fahrvergnügens than 0°Caesars

Especialy since ancient latin doesnt know the vocal for C ... therefore you are stuck with K .... as in 0°Kaiser = 273° Kelvin .

[Gregski]

when the EV conversion world converges with the DIY solar world

[Gregski]

so a bit of an update and a new discovery, I keep pushing the envelope in search of new bottlenecks, also made an arbitrary goal of 10 kWh of energy production per day

so I keep adding solar panels, 200 watt each to be exact, and I add them in pairs because I am connecting them in parallel to up the voltage, so I went from 6 panels and 1,200 watts total, to 8 panels for a total of 1,600 watts, and learned how that effects the 1,000 watt inverter

so my operating input DC voltage is 2 x 37 volts or 64 volts because the panels are in pairs aka parallel

[Gregski]

I know what you are thinking, how can you fit 6 gallons into a 5 gallon bucket, right?

well these inverters aint all that efficient, so you don't use 1,000 watts of solar panels to feed a 1,000 watt inverter like this one cause it will be operating at maybe 70% efficiency

that's why I decided to pump in 1,600 watts of solar panel energy into a 1,000 watt inverter, and here's what happened

FYI, the specs on this SUN grid tie inverter claim 92% efficiency and yes there is a discrepancy of what it claims it is doing on it's little LCD display and what the Emporia smart plug graph shows below

we flattened the bell curve so we hit a limit and are leaving energy on the table sort of speak

don't mind that it says OFFLINE I have it on a sunrise sunset schedule so the Emporia smart plug powers itself off and back on

[Gregski]

so it was time for an upgrade... to a 2,000 watt 240 volt animal

Note that Emporia does not make 240 volt smart plugs so we have to switch to their Vue Monitor and use a hall effect current sensor

[Alibro]

I bought a Solax 5kW hybrid inverter just to use with batteries.
I now have two sensors arguing with each other as to where the power should go.