Experimenting with Enphase micro inverters 

Modular, direct to AC support via a piecemeal scalable-basis to lower the consumption of high draw appliances is an outstanding hack! Thanks for sharing.

What a great idea! You come up with some really cool stuff.

I'm very interested in a practical and not too expensive grid-tie inverter with limiter. I have a 2,000 watt Sunglow grid tie with limiter and it works like a charm. Even when I'm producing all the solar power that I am consuming, it still allows 5 watts of grid power in so as not to tip off the power company that I'm doing something I'm not supposed to be doing. The drawback is that it is a max of 2,000 watts. I've been looking for a 4,000 watt grid tie with limiter that is easy to program. I never thought about using individual micro inverters. I'm going to keep an eye on your channel.

Great

May be a flow switch on the pump that will only allow MI to hook up on real flow.

My new system is 31 405-watt Q Cell panels and 31 Enphase IQ8A Inverters, they offer a "SunLight Backup" mode. An interesting option for a "grid-tied" system.

Did successfully you enable the Power Export Limiting? What grid profile did you have to use?

Any idea on how to make this work on a Pentair easy touch control system with a variable speed pump? The pump always has power to it (both line and loads hooked to the line side of relay). Because of the variable speed pump, it is designed to be hooked up that way. Does the inverter only allow solar power to flow when there is an amperage draw or just sensing 120/240?

Can you use solar panel optimisers in offgrid system? I have 4kw panels feeding 24v into Victron 150/100 mppt, into AGM battery bank then into 3000w low frequency inverter. I have a mix of different panels and want to stop the lowest producing panel drag down the rest of array with it. Cheers

So I hooked a string inverter (LV-6048) into my main panel. It's a split-phase. This inverter is able to power the whole panel with no problem. I've ran all sorts of equipment such as lights, a TV, video game console, EV Charger, etc. Everything works perfectly. With the panel up and running, I connected my Enphase IQ7 microinverter into the panel hoping it sees LV-6048 power as grid power. Well, surprisingly, it worked! The IQ7 moved from red blinking light to orange. However -- when I put a load on the panel, the IQ7 does NOT contribute in terms of power output. Only LV-6048 power is used. I'm able to confirm this via my clamp meter on the IQ7 cable. LV-6048 is connected into the panel via a 50-AMP double pole breaker. My IQ7 is connected via a 30-AMP double pole breaker. Not sure if that matters?

Great hack. Can these be paralleled to add more panels and get more power?

Sir, is there any AC output on the output of microinverter? Thanks

Would this trick work with an A/C condenser?

Great stuff, thanks for sharing, so can you power up the micro inverters I got some IQ 6+ and 7 + and would like to power them up when the sun goes down or during power outages using one of my battery banks with an all in one inverter unit. Wonder if this is possible, it nice t be able to use the freaking PV system when the power is out!

Apparently the iq8 can do off grid ac power direct so u can hook up to a power lead can u help me out trying to find something that can do AC directly from solar without grid tie and batterys

Thanks for the vid, what solar panel is that?

I use 4- 400 watt panels straight to a 90 volt dc motor the pump is a aqua flo a series it is all brass, has the C56 frame 5/8 input shaft. using it for 5 years now, sunup to sundown 1 hp.

I actually have same setup for my pool pump but I’m using older enphase inverters and I have it wires in on the line side of the timer so ones my pool pump stops the inverter keep feeding the house so keeps power bill down a bit.

Will this work with the regular IQ7 or IQ8 inverters, or does it have to be the plus variants? I'm interested in doing almost the same thing as you are, but with my mini split ac units. Thank you.

The way I understand it once the envoy-s is up and in "California rule 21" mode it will throttle the micro inverters to zero out the consumption from the grid. Be cool if it works like I think it will! Jehu Garcia had a power wall by his ac condenser at one point that would kick on any time the condenser unit did for a similar setup. But I think he was primarily doing load shifting away from peak rates not using solar.

Is it possible to charge with micro-inverter 48V LiFePO4 batteries using 48V LiFePO4 AC charger? Which AC charger to use? Is it even a good idea? For example as an installation on balconies in apartments. Or is it better to use conventional solar MPPT that are designed for this. I know that micro-inverters are designed as Grid-tie inverters ... Thank you for your answer.

Is this only for grid tied? Im doing off grid.

may i request the schematic diagram using microinverter?

so these micro inverters can work without the gateway?

How can I get 120v from the 240v enphase?

Iw ould put that thing on a transfer switch. If pump goes on use city power to hold relay/ transfer switch to run the solar

Bro,get a variable speed pump. I run my 1 1/2 hp pump and draw about 225 watts for most of 18 hrs a day. Keeps my 30,000 gal pool crystal clear.

What maximum watts can support by a single micro inverter?

2 Silly questions: (1) How do you make these work if your home is single phase? I live in an old home and only have have 1 hot 1 neutral coming form the pole, instead of 2 hots. 2 hots would give me 240V in my panel, but I only have 120V throughout the whole house. (2) If the grid is active, and your solar is active as well, how does the house know to use solar instead of grid power? How does the house pick which power to use?

Sorry, the hub is not working because you don't know what you're doing. Please take this down anybody who uses this will destroy their equipment as you did. Nothing about this is right. Sorry dude try cutting grass.