Most states are limiting balcony solar to 600-1200W, which is only 5-10A at 120V. Not enough to cause problems with imbalanced loads in a home, and most peoples homes aren’t terribly well balanced anyways. It all more or less evens out by the time you have 10-20 (or however many - idk, I’m not a lineman) homes on a tranformer.
Comment on European-style plug-in solar could quickly cut soaring utility bills in Massachusetts
lime@feddit.nu 2 days agoi’m mostly thinking of how it works when production is larger than demand in the local circuit. phase imbalances are a bigger deal when the phases are 180° out of sync.
TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
When production is larger than local demand you’re feeding in into the power grid. If your meter can ran backwards, then you’re saving even more money.
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
in a normal three-phase system, yes. you just slightly imbalance one phase. but in a split-phase system, backfeeding can move the neutral point.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just install one on each split phase!
But realistically I’m sure I read you guys have 220v hook ups of certain stuff
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
i’m not american, bit the way their 220v outlets work ds by literally bridging the two phases.