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Comment on Balcony solar is all the rage in Germany. Why not in the US?

Actually it’s quite smart and simple l: you take any outlet in your house!

The ac/dc transformer those things simply feeds it’s energy into your house - after all a plug doesn’t care in which direction power flows. .those systems have an upper cap though to prevent people from overloading the net.

It’s really neat and simple! You basically lower your lower consumption by whatever these things produce.

I don’t know or have seen anyone using these small balcony cells with a battery though - while technically not a problem I think there’s simply not a use case: they don’t overproduce that much at any given time anyway.

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deur@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Holy fuck delete this shit. You’ve described a death plug, and this shit kills grid workers and innocent people who don’t know the plug is live. You absolutely NEED a proper system set up for this with a PROPER PLUG and the proper safety disconnects to avoid backfeeding the pover grid and KILLING PEOPLE.

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- AllPintsNorth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No, he’s not described a death plug. The inverters only produce was it sees the sine wave from the grid.
  
  If the grid goes down, break trips, or it’s unplugged, then it stops producing.
  
  Calm down.
  
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- Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  But this is exactly how they are designed to work.
  
  I didn’t say that you should diy this but the sets described in this very article works like I described.
  
  Here’s a random one with data sheets and installation guide.
  
  www.bauhaus.info/balkonkraftwerke/…/31970796
  
  Perhaps you should delete your shitty and wrong rant instead?
  
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- 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Jesus fucking christ, take your meds
  
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