Hear hoofbeats? Think horse, not zebra!
Options
Ralph Day
Solar Expert Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭✭
Having lived off-grid for 7 years I always used to laugh when people mentioned about a utility outage. Last year I installed a feed in tariff 10kw system and a small load system for battery charging (power tools, popcorn and stuff).
Today I noticed a zero production flat line on my Enphase power graph (thumbnail 1). Immediately checked the envoy monitor status page and found grid instability, ac voltage out of range and frequency out of rang. Panic ensued! After checking another system like mine (as a guest view of their information...no similar flat line) I emailed a neighbour who has a system like mine, emailed the installer...figured there were major problems. Oh dear.
Now the neighbours can laugh at me...it was a utility outage of about 1 hour. It went un-noticed as the house runs off the off-grid setup and not the utility.
Hoofbeats? Think horse, not zebra! Doh!
Today I noticed a zero production flat line on my Enphase power graph (thumbnail 1). Immediately checked the envoy monitor status page and found grid instability, ac voltage out of range and frequency out of rang. Panic ensued! After checking another system like mine (as a guest view of their information...no similar flat line) I emailed a neighbour who has a system like mine, emailed the installer...figured there were major problems. Oh dear.
Now the neighbours can laugh at me...it was a utility outage of about 1 hour. It went un-noticed as the house runs off the off-grid setup and not the utility.
Hoofbeats? Think horse, not zebra! Doh!
Comments
-
Re: Hear hoofbeats? Think horse, not zebra!
thanks for sharing that ralph as i enjoyed that story.:D
Categories
- All Categories
- 243 Forum & Website
- 150 Solar Forum News and Announcements
- 1.4K Solar News, Reviews, & Product Announcements
- 191 Solar Information links & sources, event announcements
- 919 Solar Product Reviews & Opinions
- 256 Solar Skeptics, Hype, & Scams Corner
- 22.5K Solar Electric Power, Wind Power & Balance of System
- 3.6K General Solar Power Topics
- 6.7K Solar Beginners Corner
- 1K PV Installers Forum - NEC, Wiring, Installation
- 2.1K Advanced Solar Electric Technical Forum
- 5.5K Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems
- 438 Caravan, Recreational Vehicle, and Marine Power Systems
- 1.1K Grid Tie and Grid Interactive Systems
- 652 Solar Water Pumping
- 829 Wind Power Generation
- 626 Energy Use & Conservation
- 626 Discussion Forums/Café
- 303 In the Weeds--Member's Choice
- 91 Construction
- 124 New Battery Technologies
- 108 Old Battery Tech Discussions
- 3.8K Solar News - Automatic Feed
- 3.8K Solar Energy News RSS Feed