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Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The PRODUCT is designed to stop feeding OUT the plug if it doesn’t detect VOLTAGE from the socket. AC is alternating current so it pulses on and off so the solar system is doing the same. It’s turning on and off quickly and seeing if it gets power back and if it detects no power incoming it shuts off the power from the solar. It’s quite simple and ingenious.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
ok I have to believe the guy replying is a shil at this point. Use of approved products is as old as the electric stystem. Its why the electric company does not have to come and inspect everything you have plugged into the grid and does not come out every time you get a new appliance. The standards are with the product as you correctly point out and the state does not allow on compliant products to be sold just like with refrigerators.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I am not asking how the technology works. I am asking how the utility verifies that people are using compliant products.

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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The same way they do now.
  
  You realize generators exist right?
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    So they don’t, is what you’re saying?
    
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    ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    yup and if you install it wrong it’s you in trouble but you still can buy them and diy without a permit. They should just be regulated so only the certified ones can be sold.
    
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    bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I can go to the store today and get a generator and plug it right into my house and backfeed.
    
    I know this is idiodic so I don’t do it.
    
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- WesternInfidels@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “The utility” has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring or with the electricity they send you. The best we’ve managed has been to encourage appliance manufacturers to design their products with safety in mind, through the UL program (which is voluntary). This is why the writer talked to the “vice president of engineering at UL Solutions.”
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    “The utility” has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring
    
    Yes they have. It’s called permitting.
    
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    Cavemanfreak@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And what’s stopping you from doing it anyway?
    
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