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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Feedback to the group: utility replaced neutral from transformer to meter and all is fine. Utility didn’t give feedback but the Sol-Ark 120-volt during “off-grid” moved up to normal grid voltage of 124v when reconnected and its staying steady on both legs. Thanks for feedback! Scot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 13, 2024 7:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Jason Szumlanski <jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Sol-Ark 15KW is rock steady, but crazy wild grid voltages when connected to grid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>By the way, you can test this yourself and possibly track it down to whether it's the meter base or the transformer connection. Shut off all loads and plug in a hair dryer to a 120V circuit. Measure the voltage. If it sags on that line and rises on the other, you have a loose neutral, but you still don't know if it's on the customer side or the utility side. Find a friendly neighbor on the same transformer. Ask them if they are having issues and offer to test their voltages to protect their appliances. Do the same at their house. This is how we tracked down an issue in Cape Coral, FL for a client and proved to the utility (who initially said the voltage was fine) that there must be something wrong at the pole. Sure enough - they found a melted tap connector on the neutral.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We would have never known, except the customer's Enphase System Controller was going haywire because it detected a line-side voltage issue. We probably saved a bunch of appliances for multiple utility customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Jason Szumlanski<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333'>Principal Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design Group<br>NABCEP Certified Solar Professional (PVIP)<br>Florida State Certified Solar Contractor CVC56956</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#333333'>Florida Certified Electrical Contractor EC13013208</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 8:35<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>AM Jason Szumlanski <<a href="mailto:jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com">jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Yep, sounds like a loose neutral either at the utility pole or the meter socket.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Around here the utility companies have a meter that they plug in to the socket that has two "hair dryers" internal to the meter to test for a loose neutral. They shut off the main disconnect to the house, plug in the test rig, and test the heating element on each leg. If there is a voltage sag/rise, it's a loose neutral somewhere. The voltage drop on one leg will be proportional to the rise on the other leg.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Look up "Super Beast from HJ Arnett Industries."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We had tons of these problems after Hurricane Ian. The linesmen from out of state who were assisting the locals were doing whatever it took to restore residential services, including using insulation piercing taps at the transformer. These don't meet the local service standards that require crimped connections. We saw plenty of people with destroyed appliances.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Jason Szumlanski<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333'>Principal Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design Group<br>NABCEP Certified Solar Professional (PVIP)<br>Florida State Certified Solar Contractor CVC56956</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Roboto;color:#333333'>Florida Certified Electrical Contractor EC13013208</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><img border=0 width=1 height=1 style='width:.0052in;height:.0052in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01DB05E8.41FBBC90"><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 7:34<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>AM Peter Giroux via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Scot<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> We had this exact same thing happen last year with a 15. Voltage swings got pretty wild. It was a bad neutral in the meter base. Older meter base that had leaked and the neutral was a bar that compressed against the back of the base. Corroded and gunked up from the years of that small leak, needed a new meter base.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Peter Giroux<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>American Solar<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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>Scot Arey via RE-wrenches<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 12, 2024 8:37 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>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:scot.arey@solarcentex.com" target="_blank">scot.arey@solarcentex.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] Sol-Ark 15KW is rock steady, but crazy wild grid voltages when connected to grid<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have Sol-Ark 15KW with 31kwh battery has been installed for year+.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Customer has for two days been having grid voltage issue seen as dimming lights. No neighbors reporting issues. He called his electrician who noted one high conductor and the other low. Have seen this before unrelated to solar and it was a bad neutral. His electrician says ok.<br><br>Customer disconnects from the grid because the fluctuations so severe and when he does, voltage issues go away and Sol-Ark is rock steady at 120-volts per leg. I send my senior tech over to ensure we don’t have a loose neutral or any grid conductors to the grid input. Nothing found.<br><br>Picture attached of grid voltages from the Sol-Ark monitoring (very helpful, I might add.)<br><br>The electric cooperative is sending a tech out tomorrow. Any body have insight or history with this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><img border=0 width=588 height=232 style='width:6.125in;height:2.4166in' id="m_2669903125862490835m_-3391309247885799261Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01DB05E8.41FBBC90"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>