| ▲ | oliwarner 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
British industry and standards bodies think this is an unsafe plan. Of course they would because it's work being taken away from them but it would be allowing people to plug generators into ring finals with unidirectional breakers. It's not even guaranteed that the circuit is protected by anything newer than fuse wire or an MCB. No guaranteed earth leakage detection. No guaranteed surge protection. Relying on the cheapest inverters to sync frequency accurately. And I have more faith in German standards and work ethic than our own. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | fnordpiglet 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I find it interesting because often the best way to achieve a safe building code is to learn by allowing with basic guard rails and iterating as things happen. This isn’t ideal for the rare individual impacted by the “things happening,” but collectively we refine and iterate. Our current standards weren’t arrived at by navel gazing - we got the codes we have by experience. It’s hard to realize that from the present that you can’t reasonably learn without doing and by constraining without learning prevents growth and learning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | labcomputer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
“Unidirectional breakers” aren’t a thing for AC circuits. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | formerly_proven 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The situation in germany is essentially the same, but that's why net supply by these is limited to 800 W. I don't think anything changes w.r.t. earth leakage, why would the presence of the solar supply change anything from the RCD and fault point of views, respectively? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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