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Originally Posted by freebeard

I don't understand some of the details, but this sounded right when Jack Rikard (RIP) published it in 2018.

evtv.me/2018/10/solar-mqtt-selfish-solar-on-a-global-scale-bob-battery-on-board/


Maybe hard to fly under the radar if you're already on it?

Jack's idea (he is missed!) at the time was to run everything off-grid and if you happen to need some additional power during a month or two, you use your grid connection to charge up your batteries.

So he kept the grid connection as a 'backup generator' sort of solution.

Later, after he got enough solar to go off-grid during the winter ... he did not have enough loads to use all of his available solar in the summer. He already had the separate disconnect required by his utility, so he connected a grid-tie inverter to push electricity back to the grid.