Recent content by mokoono

Our power supply isn't delivered overhead, despite being rural its a large village and I live on an estate. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find there was occasional spike or surge. 1100v sounds crazy high and I would expect other equipment to fail, like my servers, routers, tvs etc. That...

Good idea for a simple test, as you said, it would a pretty poor design if it couldn't handle being turned on and off like that. It certainly had no problem being turned being turned on and off normally in the past, obviously never stress tested it by repeatedly switching the isolator. My...

The power cuts are fairly regular here and the surrounding villages, once or twice a month. I think I read there is some expensive investment needed that they're avoiding. UK Power Networks reported a "high voltage overhead electricity line fault", affected about 1000 homes in an 8 mile radius...

Hi, I had a new 14 panel (approx 5.6KW) system installed last December with a Growatt SPH5000 inverter, no batteries by an "award winning" installer. Two inverters have failed, both due to power cuts and I am now organising a third replacement with the company. I suspect there might be an...