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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 534002" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>Very safe as that's how it's designed to work. Inverters are 'grid tied' G99 compliant. Your can go off-grid but that's a whole different ball game, and frankly not viable for most people. Now, grid tied means your solar inverter monitors the grid voltage, and whether it's present ie you haven't had a power cut. It does this for 2 reasons, 1 it needs to know the grid voltage so that it can output a higher voltage, and 2, in the event of a power cut it will shut down the solar system as a safety measure for DNO workers. </p><p></p><p>So why the higher voltage? Like water at a higher level energy from the solar will flow first. Lets say your solar system is generating 3kw on a sunny day. If you are using 2kw at the time, it will supply the energy you are using and 1 kw will go out to the grid. If you are using 4kw, then 3kw will come from the solar and you will import 1kw from the grid to make up the shortfall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 534002, member: 490"] Very safe as that's how it's designed to work. Inverters are 'grid tied' G99 compliant. Your can go off-grid but that's a whole different ball game, and frankly not viable for most people. Now, grid tied means your solar inverter monitors the grid voltage, and whether it's present ie you haven't had a power cut. It does this for 2 reasons, 1 it needs to know the grid voltage so that it can output a higher voltage, and 2, in the event of a power cut it will shut down the solar system as a safety measure for DNO workers. So why the higher voltage? Like water at a higher level energy from the solar will flow first. Lets say your solar system is generating 3kw on a sunny day. If you are using 2kw at the time, it will supply the energy you are using and 1 kw will go out to the grid. If you are using 4kw, then 3kw will come from the solar and you will import 1kw from the grid to make up the shortfall. [/QUOTE]
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