Crossy

But would you actually admit to being either??? Case proven m'lud. Burn the witch!!

I'm not a great lover of the "universal" outlets anyway. The interesting shape of the contacts combined with the "monkey-metal" they're often made from ensures that, particularly after UK plug has been used, the contact can be somewhat iffy. If you really need to use UK plugs order a pukka 13A one from Malaysia or Singapore, or do as we did, and get the family to bring one with them, stick a Thai plug on it and you're gold. Using an actual UK strip also mitigates any polarity issues.

I reckon someone could do with a poke in the groyne

Rule #2: Make sure that your backup will actually restore! There's only one thing worse than having no backup, and that's having a backup that won't restore (ask me how I know)

You will need to replace the main switch with a suitably rated 2-pole MCB for over-current protection, Thailand has no DNO fuses. You could then put that switch in a small DIN box and use it as an isolator. You need to wire MEN as per the Thai requirements routing the incoming neutral via the earth bar, so your MEN link actually needs to be the same size as your incoming cables. I've never seen a Thai domestic sparks with a megger, they do tend to rely on the "bang-test" (if it doesn't go bang, all is good). Look at the routing of the incoming neutral: -

So, you've signed all the necessary agreements etc? Or do you mean you have an electronic meter that records export but you have no agreement in place? Which is effectively the same as not having an export meter. It may still take months to sort out all the paperwork and inspections 😞 With no agreement all bets are off as to what PEA do. But as with all things Thai it's up2u. EDIT I would have a word with your contractor to see exactly what they've signed you up for, simply "registering" your solar isn't that same as getting on the feed-in tariff.

It's been reported at least once on this forum. Until you get your export meter I would avoid exporting anything.

The English country pub, the main reason the English own dogs! As if we really need an excuse

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Wouldn't that make it an off-grid hybrid then, just spend less money 🙂 The issue affects the hybrids that synchronise the output to the grid (so called on/off grid hybrids) so that the grid can seamlessly provide any shortfall from the solar, like a grid tie would. The problem occurs when a large load goes off, the electronics doesn't react fast enough and a short burst of export occurs. A disc meter probably wouldn't notice at all but the electronic meters can and do. Note that I understand that @MJCM actually had a constant, although small, export (meter was actually moving visibly) even when the inverter said zero. Fixed with a small constant load (fan).

Yeah, Ghost Export is a known problem with electronic meters and one solution is to go off-grid, only going on-grid when the solar is dead. Some inverters allow you to set a minimum grid draw of a few watts which should offset any ghost. Members on another, US-centric, solar forum are noting that their electronic meters are actually saying "error" in the event of even a tiny ghost (along with threats to remove the meter).

From a later post it would appear to be the Netherlands.

Even if he was grid-tie (he's not, the ATS handles that), every domestic level grid-tie inverter has island-protection to prevent it back-feeding into a dead grid. It's an absolute requirement. Note that exporting energy to a live grid (no hazard) is not the same as back-feeding to a dead grid (potential hazard to linemen). If your inverter is on the "approved" list rest assured that, assuming it is correctly installed, it will never back-feed into a dead grid.

It will be interesting to know if there's any follow up. A year / 18 months back we had a bit of a scare when I thought that PEA had seen our meter going backwards (the food-shed next door got a shiny new digital meter on the same pole as our antique spinning-disc device). I set our system to not export at all for a couple of months. Nothing happened. We now have enough storage and generation to be grid independent so no export is permanently enabled. On or about the same day Madam was accosted by a person outside our gate who suggested that our meter was "very old" and we should get a new one. My lady being a smart cookie said she was just the maid and they would need to speak to the owner who was at work. They never came back.

I've added that list to my pinned thread.

Yeah, we used to live in Box (of Brunel's Box Tunnel fame) just up the A4, I got my BSc at the University of Bath. We swilled a LOT of that "warm" ale in the Quarryman's Arms on top of Box Hill (still trading).

It should have been "cellar temperature" 10-13oC (50 to 55oF), not exactly warm but definitely not having its nads frozen off.

AFTER work?? Friday lunchtime down in the Albion Inn (the old Verwood station) with the MD! (this would have been the late 80's mind) Two or three pints of something from Ringwood brewery and a pasty-n-chips then back to the office. By far the best code was written on Friday afternoons, not that anyone actually remembered who wrote it or how it actually worked