<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Hi all, I only wanted to respond to this:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">“Also, don’t expect to connect a generator via Sol Ark for pass through during and outage”</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Why not? In my experience SolArk work fine for generator backup, especially the 15K model which has 200A pass through.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"Helvetica Neue";word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 6:30 AM Scot Arey via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2189304738042124551WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">There is no backup if there are no batteries with a Sol-Ark. You just have a grid-tied inverter that is one step away from being a robust battery backup system.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="cid:18775c3704cad7999131" style="width: 896px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225)"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Sparadeo via RE-wrenches<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:cwarfel@entech-engineering.com" target="_blank">cwarfel@entech-engineering.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Chris Sparadeo <<a href="mailto:sparadeo.chris@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparadeo.chris@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Sol-ark without batteries<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi William,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I think my opinion would be yes, but why? We have a few no-battery installs, but they don’t preform well in grid outage scenarios. If the client is looking for future battery back-up, but not ready to invest just yet, it’s an option. Don’t expect seamless grid forming output with an outage. Also, don’t expect to connect a generator via Sol Ark for pass through during and outage. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">My $0.02 is to convince the client to tag on a battery, albeit minimal capacity. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Kindly,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Chris <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 4:22 PM Christopher Warfel via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-width:1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Yes, we just did one. 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