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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I'll have to research this a bit more, but it might be complex to get a solar inverter to function with a battery instead of solar. The inverters are designed to utilize the grid as a battery, so any "excess" electricity is fed back out to the grid, and any deficiency is pulled from it.
If it's being fed a DC voltage from a battery, it would always have "excess" and any attempt to feed that excess to the fake grid we've created would not be good.
I don't know if there is an easy solution.
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The solution is for the inverter to not be the grid-tie variety. As the battery is discharged the vehicle will ramp up power from the engine to match the discharge, just as though it were being drained by the drive motor.
Edit: not to be used as a grid-tie, flip off the main breaker