GRID TIE INVERTER SOLAR POWER EASY SOLAR SOLUTION POWER INVERTERS
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at
11:51 pm
www.greenpowerscience.com This is a grid tie inverter that is 200 watts. It actually reads a bit higher for various reasons. This was to see how well it worked. POWER INVERTERS.
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the inverter’s plug in cable looks dangerous, meaning that if you touch the pin(s) you’ll have a nice surprise!..is that true? …
Are you able to plug in more than one GTI into your house system? How can/do you conect 2 or more “home made” solar panels together, and would that help with the GTI?
@cm4english You can, they usually recommend one per breaker. You can parallel several panels up to the GTI wattage.
Hi Dan,
Isn’t this illegal to do per NEC code? These inverter have not been tested or listed for back-feeding. They should have a dedicated circuit shouldn’t they?
Hey Dan, do we need to have our panels wired in series if we are to connect it directly to the GTI?
where did you get the grid tie inverter? can u link the site?
hello from Australia, you are a very informative young man, thank you Dan, we are looking to go solar and love your videos… say hello to lovely wife also, i like to see you both teaching us about things ( i seen the wind generator videos and you let the wife use a band saw!!!!! you are a great team and very funny also…have fun and love your wife ok all the best….peace….
what kind of grid tie inverter are you useing? been trying to find the best ones an some people say thay get pretty hot hope you can help thx..
what is a GTA I`m not familiar with this term
More and more people are going to be doing things like this and bigger, I hope a class action law suit is going on to stop the power company’s from only taking from people and not buying back. Right now, its just a power company scam going on.
Thank you for the clear explanation,s you give, i find you easy to follow and i understand new thing better when shown and explained the way you do .
i understand the saving money with electrical power devices is hard but it,s important to inform ourselves at how we can improve and comsume less energie at the least be more energie wise ,again thank you.
good video Dan. Thanks for sharing.
do i need to ask my electric provider and or homeowners insurance b4 installing one of these. this is a great idea giving people who rent a chance to go green and save on electric bills. b4 this renters had no way to tie to the grid please mail me if you know the answers to my questions thank you
The power company is on to you, boy!
I know that this is an older video (at this date in 2010), but after seeing your video on the Uni-Solar PV-124, I got a bit curious. I’ll need to do some figuring to set up a system around the 42v panels. Too bad that here in Arkansas, Entergy requires a home system to be capable of 30KW before they will do do Net Metering. Thanks for the great info!
@72542 There are now inverters that run on 28v – 60 v range. They are on Ebay. I have tested but still need more data as I was only able to get 40 watts. Need to figure out why.
200w inverter x 5 hours = 1kwh tick ??
@GREENPOWERSCIENCE @ 6:28 you mention damage
i have a question, if you were to have a 12 volt inverter running off your average marine deep cycle, then plugged in a battery charger into the inverter like a black and decker charger and atached it to the battery thats running the inverter, in theory wouldnt that make an everlasting power suply? can u explain any way how this wouldnt work, the charger should be putting more into the battery then its draining from the inverter.
@ke4uyp he barley rolled over the 1 kw mark so in theory he should barely need any power to undo the 1kw he just went over.
this could be a really dangerous situation; all supplies should be fed on the supply side of your fuse box. If you had a fault with this unit connected it may not cause the fuse or breaker to trip. if you had several of these units connected to the same circuit you are multiplying the risk of burning your house down.
Lets look at a situation where you have ten of these units hooked up, thats arouns 2 amps each giving a total 20 amps. if the circuit they are connected to
Hi Dan- Thanks for the informative video.
Question: If I want to supplement with a grid-tie inverter, do I have to be concerned about net-metering? I don’t know the what type of power meter is on my house. I don’t want to make my meter spin faster and be charged more for producing electricity.
Thanks for the clear presentations. I learn a lot from you.
I plan to connect 3 solar panels in PARALLEL (each 15 Watts, 12 VDC, bought from Harbor Freight) to a GTI (300 Watts, 14-28 VDC), without batteries, to feed the grid. Someone on Harbor Freight 45 Watt Solar Panel Kit Community Forum says this works. Do you think it will work?
One on the Forum says I should put the panels in SERIES for efficiency. But your video says this may damage panels. Is it still true? Thanks for guidance.
Nice video. One thing you could have done though was to plug a splitter or extention cord into your Kill-A-Watt wattmeter, them some device pulling more than 200W, such as a toaster into one socket of the cord, then the inverter into the other to let us see the power draft from the grid drop by 200W
So for example, if the toaster was pulling 800W without the inverter, it’d read 600W with the inverter plugged in
nice