[RE-wrenches] 1 kW 120 Vac grid tied inverter

Tue Apr 30 00:31:14 EDT 2019

You might try Sam Vanderhoof over at Solar Cowboys (Grass Valley area) .. They have been rebuilding and reselling older models of ALL sorts of stuff for the technician-from-another-time. . Any time I need something like a 120vAC SMA or something Legacy. . . They have it. .

Joe Nelson

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Sustainable Energy Group Inc., A California Corporation

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The SMA 1000 was 120V output. I saw one a while back on eBay.

The SMA 700 are nice little units for training. The input window is tight with newer modules. The input max current is pretty low.

Jesse Dahl

NABCEP PV Installation Professional
IBEW Local 292 - Electrician
Electrical/Solar PV Instructor - HCC

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On Apr 29, 2019, at 5:04 PM, Christopher Warfel <cwarfel at entech-engineering.com<mailto:cwarfel at entech-engineering.com>> wrote:

If it is going to be grid tied, non of the small inverters that I know of will be UL listed and they cannot be used. I also think they are all stand alone in any case. We use a fair number on boats and on the oyster farm.  I think the smallest that I can think of is Outback GTFX at 3000 watts, 120VAC, but you probably already looked at that.  Chris

On 4/29/2019 10:12 AM, Jay wrote:
Hi peter.

Check amazon or eBay etc. lots of cheap Chinese small inverters.

Jay

On Apr 28, 2019, at 8:18 PM, Peter Parrish <peter.parrish at calsolareng.com<mailto:peter.parrish at calsolareng.com>> wrote:

I replaced a number of AES (?) 120 Vac 1 kW grid tied inverter back when I was just starting out (2000) There was one poor design element with the DC fuse holders that I discovered and was able to work around, but I usually advised my clients to swap these inverters out for the SMA SWR 2500 and add some PV panels into the mix. I kept a couple of the AES 1000s for a while and then finally gave them to our local scrap metal purveyor.

I have a 900 W off-grid system that I used to haul around to “green events”. Blue Sky CC, Xantrex 1000 W inverter, 24 V AGM battery set. But as time goes by I spend very little time demoing this big an off-grid system, and I wish I had an AES-1000 to covert my seldom-used off-grid system into a revenue producing grid tied system.

Did anyone else keep a working AES-1000 (or low power grid tied inverter) that works and would be willing to part with it for a modest sum. Is there a solid  ~1,000 W 120 Vac grid tied inverter out there on the market?

My system is comprised of five (5) Tata 180s. Vmpp=35.8 V.

  *   Peter

Peter T. Parrish
SolarGnosis
1107 Fair Oaks Ave. Ste. 351
South Pasadena, CA 91030
(323) 839-6108
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