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HiTech
Explorer
Mar 15, 2013

Grid tie inverters to boost genset or PSW inverter output?

Has anyone used grid tie inverters with your RV solar systems (some on eBay are very inexpensive indeed and claiming to be MPPT - ok I have some doubts) to supplement small genset output? It looks l...
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msiminoff
Explorer II
Mar 17, 2013
2oldman wrote:
a grid tie inverter doesn't really help me with my issue which is starting the air-conditioner compressor when the generator is in "Eco mode".
My inverter does that.

My inverter starts the A/C too... the point is that my solar can't because I only have 320W of it.

So, beyond starting a large inductive load... what might the benefits be of paralleling a grid-tie solar inverter to a (grid-tie) inverter-generator like a Honda EUXXXXi?

-Mark

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