Crossy Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, Tigerdim said: I havent seen anything like this. If you have Sofar inverters and "anti-reflux" actually does disable export then you do have CTs (should be one per inverter/phase). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 16 minutes ago, Crossy said: I know we will eventually get a "smart" meter so I'm constantly upgrading so that we never actually export energy anyway (more batteries Igor, more batteries!). More $$$$$s Crossy, more $$$$$s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 9 minutes ago, BritManToo said: More $$$$$s Crossy, more $$$$$s Yeah, the "budget" car-port is more "mega-budget" now ???? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlyai Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 17 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said: It may sound a silly question but why would you have a 3 phase supply to your house? Weeelll...we had 3 phase to the rice mill. When we built the house the rice mill was decomissioned so we kept or transfered the meter at minimal cost (a friend of a friend). So we have a very expandable 15/45 x3 supply out in the sticks. Sometime the local street phase would go low when everone came back from the fields and our under/over sensor would stop supply to the aquifer water pump. So found a higher voltage phase and used it. No problems, flexibility with 3 phase. Also wired the house so a power fail on one phase would not cause a problem as every phase is wired to bits of the house. More than one phase to the kitchen, rooms and each bedroom aircon is on a different phase so if we lose 1 or 2 phases we can still have a bedroom and aircon and kitchen and pumps that work. Also we installed 3 phase multi point water heaters. We got hot hot water. Keeps Wifey happy. ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoguy21 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 23 minutes ago, carlyai said: Weeelll...we had 3 phase to the rice mill. When we built the house the rice mill was decomissioned so we kept or transfered the meter at minimal cost (a friend of a friend). So we have a very expandable 15/45 x3 supply out in the sticks. Sometime the local street phase would go low when everone came back from the fields and our under/over sensor would stop supply to the aquifer water pump. So found a higher voltage phase and used it. No problems, flexibility with 3 phase. Also wired the house so a power fail on one phase would not cause a problem as every phase is wired to bits of the house. More than one phase to the kitchen, rooms and each bedroom aircon is on a different phase so if we lose 1 or 2 phases we can still have a bedroom and aircon and kitchen and pumps that work. Also we installed 3 phase multi point water heaters. We got hot hot water. Keeps Wifey happy. ???? thanks for the explanation, I thought there had to be a reason for it. Houses dont generally have 3 phase supplies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerdim Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 58 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said: thanks for the explanation, I thought there had to be a reason for it. Houses dont generally have 3 phase supplies. In my residential development we all have 3 phases. Not sure why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoguy21 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, Tigerdim said: In my residential development we all have 3 phases. Not sure why. Usually 3 phase is reserved for large motors, pumps etc not domestic usage. Strange that you have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patman30 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Tigerdim said: In my residential development we all have 3 phases. Not sure why. i was told before it was for company ownership but might just be to have more reliable supply these might help Edited April 13, 2022 by patman30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlyai Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 1 minute ago, patman30 said: company ownership iirc You are a factory. Soapies cost a lot to run you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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