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Originally Posted by red-beard

Wholesale solar is overpriced.

All solar inverters are setup to disconnect the grid loses power. It is not BS. Most of the grid-tied inverters are simply money saving systems and they must disconnect. And you do not want to put power down the lines when the grid is down. Yes, you can kill linemen.

Protecting linesman absolutely is not BS. What is BS is not being able to use my panels if the grid is down. It would be simple to disconnect my panels from the grid while still being able to use them. There must be non-grid inverters that work this way. Since none of the big installers do off-grid I want to build a system to maintain critical loads.

I suspected Wholesale Solar prices were more than the cost of the components, but it would save a 100 trips to the store and they offer support.

Do you do off-grid installs?