[RE-wrenches] Battery Backup for Older Enphase Systems

Drake drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org
Mon Nov 13 10:52:04 EST 2017 

Hi Nick,

Please send me your information. Currently I am 
finishing up an Enphase M-250, AC coupled system 
that is designed to taper charge batteries by 
dropping out groups of inverters based on battery voltage.

Thanks,

Drake

Drake Chamberlin
Athens Electric LLC
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NABCEP Certified Solar PV
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At 11:58 PM 11/11/2017, you wrote:
>Hi Wrenches,
>
>
>We now have the ability to provide frequency 
>based power curtailment.  If you are AC Coupling 
>with a battery-based inverter that can fluctuate 
>frequency to regulate charge on the battery, 
>then we can ramp our output up and down to regulate the charge more evenly.
>
>
>If you have an AC Coupled system using Enphase 
>microinverters, reach out to me and I will set 
>your company up with a grid profile that can 
>provide this option.  Once your company has been 
>granted access to this profile, you can update 
>the profile using either our Installer Toolkit (ITK) app or Enlighten.
>
>
>Cordially,
>
>Nick Soleil
>
>Enphase Energy | Product Manager, Envoy and IQ Accessories
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>From: RE-wrenches 
><re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org> on 
>behalf of Gary Willett <Gary at IcarusSolarServices.com>
>Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 3:34 PM
>To: re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
>Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery Backup for Older Enphase Systems
>
>DAVE:
>
>How does the brute force OFF transitions of the 8K of Enphase AC-coupled
>micro-inverters affect the AC loads being served by the Sonnen? Are
>there any noticeable/measurable glitches in the Sonnen's distributed AC?
>
>I am assuming the Enphase ON transitions are more graceful because of
>the UL1741 prove-in period and the individual ramp-up of the individual
>microinverters.
>
>Regards,
>
>Gary Willett PE
>Icarus Engineering & Solar Services LLC
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>
>On 11/9/17 2:28 PM, Dave Tedeyan wrote:
> > You could go with a Sonnen. That is meant to be AC coupled, and its a very
> > simple install.
> > Nice piece of equipment, but its expensive. We just installed one that has
> > right around 8kw of Enphase M215 inverter output. So far, no issues.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
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> >
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> > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:07 PM, John <john at gosolar.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> We did one a few months ago using Outback VFX3024e, 1000 a/h battery bank
> >> - basically an Off-Grid system but tied into 
> the switchboard, with customer
> >> nominated circuits dedicated to the Off-Grid system.  The grid is acting
> >> like the backup generator via a relay.
> >>
> >> The only little hiccup was that when the *generator* was called on, the
> >> Off-Grid system had to sync in with the real Grid, it was not immediate.
> >>
> >> Apart from that - seems to work O.K.                    John,    GoSolar
> >> Ltd,  Christchurch, N.Z.
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On
> >> Behalf Of Matt Sherald
> >> Sent: Friday, 10 November 2017 3:43 a.m.
> >> To: RE-wrenches
> >> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Battery Backup for Older Enphase Systems
> >>
> >> I'd appreciate some ideas as to what backup system designs work well with
> >> the older Enhase equipment (M250/215 era).
> >>
> >> I've tried this at home with a XW4024, but the frequency rise causes the
> >> lights to flicker and it is awfully unpleasant.
> >>
> >> A customer of mine has asked about backup to go with an array that uses
> >> M250s and this prompted me to write.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> -Matt
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> >> --
> >> Matt Sherald
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