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<p>Thank you, It's pretty tight, I am hoping for some radio or wifi
breaker to send a signal. Just no luck yet. Chris</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You would need to run the
control wires back to the inverter. Can you possibly run a
pair of #16 wires the through the conduit feeding the building
with the compressor? </span></p>
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the coil wires connected to the AC IN of the Outback?
When incoming AC goes down, the contactor will open to
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<p><em>Drake Chamberlin</em></p>
<p><em>Athens Electric LLC</em></p>
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On 2025-08-22 15:54, Christopher Warfel via RE-wrenches
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installed a 4kW Outback multimode system about 8 years
ago. An<br>
electrician came in afterwards and installed 3 heat
pumps on the<br>
battery backed up power panels. The Outback inverter
disconnected on<br>
load every time there was a power outage. The
electrician really<br>
messed up and is long gone. Also found out did not pull
a permit. But<br>
I digress. We managed to move two of the heat pump
circuit breakers<br>
to the utility panel, so no longer on the battery backed
up power<br>
panels. The third heat pump is the problem as it is
located in an<br>
apartment building remote from the main house. The whole
apartment<br>
subpanel, including the heat pump load is
interconnected to the<br>
"main" battery backed up power panel in the home.<br>
<br>
A master electrician and I are considering how to shed
the apartment<br>
heat pump in a power outage. We cannot easily run a
separate circuit<br>
to the apartment building to pick up this load. We have
considered a<br>
smart panel, but the cost seems high for one circuit.
Does anyone know<br>
of a power line product of RF product or similar that
could operate<br>
this breaker when the main service panel loses power? I
have been<br>
unsuccessful over months of sporadic research.<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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Chris<br>
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-- Christopher Warfel, PE ENTECH Engineering, Inc. PO
Box 871, Block<br>
Island, RI 02807 (401) 447-5773<br>
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