[RE-wrenches] Will IQ8 microinverters backfeed a generator during grid interruptions

[Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar]

And in this case, with all the Ice storm doom and gloom coming, to alot 
of the country, inform your users how to turn off their array and run a 
generator safely!

Offgrid is just so much easier sometimes.

  😉

Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
"we go where powerlines don't"
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e-mail  offgridsolar at sti.net
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On 2026-01-21 12:55 pm, Zeke Yewdall via RE-wrenches wrote:

> In that case, we're getting way off track and way more complicated :P
> 
> Just put a contactor between the PV array and the POI using the NC 
> contacts, with the coil powered off the generator.  Then the PV array 
> can never backfeed the generator because it'll be turned off anytime 
> the generator is running.
> 
> Zeke
> 
> ------------------
> 
> Thanks but I'm just trying to grid-tie a small Enphase array without 
> ESS where the point of interconnection is on the customer side of the 
> generator/ATS.
> 
> Trying to use existing wires in place to simplify and lower costs...but 
> the generator is my constraint because I need the PoI to be on line 
> side of the ATS.
> 
> Howard "Scot" Arey
> Owner, Solar CenTex
> 254-300-1228
> 
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