Generator Control- A Doozie [RE-wrenches]

[William Miller]

Travis:

I have faced just this sort of dilemma.  I'd like to reply with a diagram,
off-line.  Can you open Visio drawings?  If not, I can send a jpg.  Let me
know.

William



At 09:27 AM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar wrote:
>> 
>> I have a customer who already had a 22 kW kohler controlled by a
>> automatic transfer switch.  We added solar and a dual SW inverter
>> system to the house.  Due to the size of the existing generator and
>> existing house wiring configuration I can't run the generator into AC2
>> on the SW's.  There are loads on the main panel that he would like to
>> run still that shoudn't be ran of the inverters.
>
>Hey Travis,
>
>Having a hard time following this, maybe if you spoke more about what
>these loads and such consist of.  That said, I don't see why you can't
>bring the gen-set into AC2.  Just don't have all the home loads on the
>AC outputs of the Trace(s).  Also, if you want to do some type of
>transferring, consider using the AUX relays in the Trace rather than an
>Emeter set-up.  If you'd care to give more info on what is running where
>in this home (maybe off list), it may help me to follow the logic and I
>may be able to offer some other thoughts -- Kurt Nelson
>
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