Thanks, Did a rough diagram of my simplest plan. need an extra pair of eyes to point out if i am doign something wrong. when drawing this up, i realized i made a mistake in my original plan where i was planning to use 1NO 1NC for the right side contactor.
please let me know if you see any other issues like that.
Some notes:
1. my Discom connection is 3 phase but i don't have any 3 phase loads. loads are just distributed across each phase.
2. My deye Solar inverter smart Loads output is single phase, so in my current manual changeover setup when i switch between grid and solar inverter, i feed the single phase of my deye inverter to all 3 phases of load.
Now, To be able to make this changeover remotely. I plan to use the following hardware.
1. Contactor 3 pole - 3 NO
2. Contactor 4 pole - 3NO, 1NC
3. timer
4. Sonoff mini smart switch (tasmotized)
During normal operation, the Left side contactor (3NO)'s coil will be powered through one of the grid phases but to achieve interlock with the solar inverter output, its coil input will be wired via the NC contact of the 2nd contactor. This will ensure that the main contactor will never be powered when the inverter contactor is ON.
When there is a power cut, both contactors will be Off by default and the house will have no power (except critical loads that are wired separately and connected to critical loads output of inverter). However, i will have the option to turn on the Sonoff Smart switch 'S' from home assistant etc to energise the coil of the 2nd contactor which will power all 3 phases of the house via the single phase output of the Deye solar inverter.
The house will remain powered via the inverter even when the Grid/utility power is back online and that is fine by me.
When i need to switch back to utility power and offload my inverter, I can manually via my phone turn off the smart switch and this will cause 2nd contactor to deenergized. The NC contact on the 2nd contactor will complete the circuit for the main contactor coil to be energized after a delay of 5 sec which i will set on the timer device since i dont want/need the power switching to happen instantanously.
Note:
1. My solar inverter is rated for 6kw and the house always remains under 4 kw typically unless my EV is charging which only i operate, so there is almost no chance of overloading the inverter and tripping it.
2.ignore neutrals missing in the diagram, they are common between Grid circuit and Deye inverter circuit and that works just fine in the current state where i have a manual changeover.