I’m interested in solar. And I know I need a inverter to convert the DC power form panels/battery into AC so my appliances can use them. But I’ve heard this grid forming inverter in the news. How is it different to ones installed in homes? Do I even want one or is it only for power plants?
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Solar setups can vary greatly, generally if you are building one to power your house, you would need licensed electricians and i believe a permit in a large number of places, this is because a home solar setup can backfeed excess power production to the grid and pay you for it and it takes some management to load balance and match your phases and timing to be compatible and not destructive.
A solar setup for a camper or RV would just freehand the phases and it doesnt matter so long as it doesnt get capacitively coupled or inducted into another power grid while at AC currents. These systems can be really cheap and also of a low build quality but are generally fine if you factor in how it will be used properly. For certain things like sensitive electronics you may want to beef up on your inverter tech and find a pure sine wave inverter, which can draw a bit more power and perhaps waste under 5%, but it will run things that do not like modified sine waves, which are square voltage pulses that attempt to emulate a sine wave but on a timescale are not gradual but instant DC-like pulses in a stairstep shape.
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