[RE-wrenches] Sol-Ark grid tie question

[Nick A Lucchese]

Jason, this will work just fine. I’ve not fully embraced a transition to their products for my clients yet but had one recently where the customer insisted on this for their project and I was in the exact scenario while we waited for the battery to arrive. No external bypass required for this reason. However it does not work without a minor setting activation and even then there was a 10-20 second delay before the relay is closed and the utility will pass through. 

Nick


> On Apr 1, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
> 
> If you set up the inverter in a straight grid tie mode, does it still pass power through to the load terminals when on grid?
> 
> I ask this, because a client wants us to connect it with a backup load panel but no battery right now. He wants to add the battery later.
> 
> My other thought is to install a bypass switch to pass grid power directly to the subpanel, which would act as a service bypass for the future anyway.
> 
> Jason Szumlanski
> Florida Solar Design Group 
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