August 9, 20224 yr Good morning, It appears that when I am feeding power back in to the grid, my electricty meter turns as if I'm using power. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it possible to stop this, either by changing the meter settings or the inverter settings? Thanks, Guy
August 9, 20224 yr Hi Guy It depends on which meter you have. Some meters cannot distinguish whether you are using power or giving it back and in this case, you will pay the same as using power. There is nothing you can do about this. The only way to stop this is to stop feeding back altogether to the grid or if you have an inverter with a ct like the Deye or Sunsynk inverter you stop the power from feeding back. Other meters as I have will turn backward and will reduce your consumption. The newer electronic meters have a sign on them with a rachet gear to show you cannot feed back to the grid. Some people use the excess power to heat their geyser elements and other devices if they have an auxiliary output on their inverter. Unfortunately, I do not know of any easy fix if there is no auxiliary output or ct on the inverter. Edited August 9, 20224 yr by Peter Topp
September 29, 20223 yr In the meantime you can set your Alpha to not do grid feed-in, so that you at least don't pay for that energy.
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