ewarnerusa wrote:
The different idea on the refrigerator is with the diversion load, where there is no input on my end. The heating element gets some diverted current whenever it is available, which in my head means it gets turned into refrigerator cooling and therefore propane offset. Same logic as the water heater, where heat is being added to the water just because there is spare current available and there is no "control" of it. Just "here I have some extra energy, want it?"
I have a question. Since the idea is to use the extra energy generated so it doesn't go to waste, won't the refrigerator idea fail to do that half the time? If the refrigerator is at temperature and not running, that energy is STILL being wasted. You wouldn't want to run the refrigerator's heating element if the refrigerator is already cold enough. Forcing the refrigerator to keep running, just to use solar energy, when it is already at temperature is a recipe for freezing everything in the refrigerator.
