Islanding [RE-wrenches]

[Michael Welch, Home Power]

Drake Chamberlin, Quicksilver Electrical wrote at 08:50 PM 12/2/2000 -0800:
   
>I was asked today if two Trace SW inverters could keep each other
>producing power when the utility was down.

PG&E did extensive testing of this at their San Ramone research facility when the SW series came out. They found that they absolutely would not island.

I know of this because I worked with PG&E to get what was to be the very first SW (#00011) online in CA. Trace was working directly with them at this time, and PG&E was completely satisfied that the SW would go down in all circumstances when the grid goes down.
   
Michael Welch
   
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