Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Power Forum - Renewable Energy Discussion

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

solarnovice

Members
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation Activity

  1. Thanks
    solarnovice reacted to ___ in Solar tripping when infrared LEDs switch on   
    An RCD (earth leakage) works on a difference in current. If 1A is going in on the live wire, 1A has to come back on the neutral wire. A small mismatch is allowed, usually around 15mA (your typical 30mA RCD starts to trip somewhere between 15mA an 20mA).
    The trouble is that many RCDs don't distinguish between a transient leakage (small sharp spike in energy that dissipates in microseconds) and a real sustained leakage. And this causes nuisance tripping.
    Furthermore, many appliances have a small leakage (by design), often because there are filtering components that pass a small amount of current to ground. For example, many computer power supplies have a small amount of leakage, which is why large amounts of computers on the same RCD can lead to nuisance tripping. Ask anyone who's run a university lab full of computers.
    So the first thing to figure out is what kind of leakage you are dealing with, and the only way I have found to do that is a clamp meter around the conductors. It is possible that you have a standing leakage that is close to the tripping limit, and that other factors push you over at night.
    Why only on inverter? Well, because inverters usually don't make a perfect sine wave. They get close, but there is a bit of harmonic distortion in it. Maybe this is acting up in some of the filters.
    Here, for example, is the standing loss I had before I split things up a bit. Almost 7mA.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.