I have a lot of power outages in my area.  The grid can be down for days.  My inverter will not be able to power certain high draw items.  The generator can.

I cannot wire the gennie to the Deye inverter.

80A single phase from council

What is the easiest way to setup the system so that:

1. I can select between grid power and gennie power (I am thinking use change over switch at council power meter to switch between grid and gennie)

2. When on gennie power, isolate the inverter and run both essential and non essential on the gennie. 

 

I did a search I could not find a similar thread.

 

Thanks in advance.  I learnt alot reading the threads on this forum

 

 

Edited March 28, 20231 yr by RStark

23 minutes ago, RStark said:

I have a lot of power outages in my area.  The grid can be down for days.  My inverter will not be able to power certain high draw items.  The generator can.

I cannot wire the gennie to the Deye inverter.

80A single phase from council

What is the easiest way to setup the system so that:

1. I can select between grid power and gennie power (I am thinking use change over switch at council power meter to switch between grid and gennie)

2. When on gennie power, isolate the inverter and run both essential and non essential on the gennie. 

 

I did a search I could not find a similar thread.

 

Thanks in advance.  I learnt alot reading the threads on this forum

 

 

This is what a lot of people did before going PV. It is still the method used by those that don't have enough or no panels and going through power failures like the current problem people have in Jhb with no water. 

This is if you cannot get the genny to be used on the inverter AUX input due to bad quality of supply. 

Edited March 28, 20231 yr by Scorp007

There is another thread where someone cannot connect his single phase genie to his 3-phase inverter.  Very much like your problem but the 3-phase house wiring complicating things more...

For these sort of problems it would be good to run the genie through a high current battery charger.  However, these charges are scares and very, very expensive, often costing more than a cheap Axpert inverter.   There is no technical reason this should be so.

Even if you implement a suitable wiring scheme, it would really be useful to charge your inverter battery during times the genie runs.  Even if it is at a modest charging rate.

There are many "holes" in this market for affordable solutions which currently just don't seem to be available off-the-shelf.  Hopefully there are some power electronics guys busy burning the midnight candles.