LB
Necromancer of Winning
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The bank is in my garage. Alas, my knowledge of energy/electricity has reached the ends of the internets.
I produce 500 watts at any given sunny moment. More if it is windy. This energy is then stored in my battery bank which contains about 1000 amp hours at full capacity. I use this to power my inverters which allow me to use 800 watts and 500 watts each. Pretty cool.
The dillemma is what now? I can power my digital equipment, a my big screen tv and my lights pretty handily. However, my furnace is a little more difficult and would require me to rewire half the house. Aside from that I would have to rewire the whole house with a parallel circuit to be able to power high amperage devices off the regular grid.
The solution to this problem is a grid tie inverter. This is where bullshit corporate america comes in. Local power companies are not a big fan of paying people to power the grid. I have the paper work for getting paid, but you must have a UL approved grid tie inverter to be able to this. The powerful corporations have banned chinese imports from getting approved basically and the grid tie inverters available in the states are overpriced and underpowered. To such an extreme extent that they cost almost as much as my entire system currently cost to put into place. Then they've gone and limited the amount you can invert and put back on each one of these devices to 250 watts.
It is true,that eventually these devices would pay themselves off. I am out of investment capital though. I have been working with a simulator for a while to try and create my own grid tie inverter. I have knowledge on loop holes to get paid should I be able to complete this project but can't risk any mad scientist testing without knowing what I am doing is going to work.
Anybody here have knowledge one electrical circuits, alternating current, direct current, and phase shifting? If not all some? I have some schematics that work in the simulator but am not about to risk my inverters in a test without more knowledge.
I will be happy to share any information I have learned over the past several months including how to do exactly what I've done on a tight budget.
The greatest secret of all is the electric companies are required by law to pay you for every drop of power you put into the grid if your energy is "green". Rather than burn more coal, that is.
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