• artyom@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Again, it doesn’t matter what inverter you buy, they can’t tell the difference between off grid and grid off. So if it shuts off when it doesn’t detect voltage, then it won’t work off grid. Which makes it sound like you’re saying off-grid inverters are illegal.

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      6 hours ago

      They detect incoming frequency, not voltage. And yes, they absolutely detect the difference, I have one, it works exactly like this.

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        5 hours ago

        How do you detect the frequency of voltage that doesn’t exist? Hold a wire up in the air and measure the frequency and let me know what you find.

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          I mean…if there is no grid frequency detected it automatically breaks connection between the house and the grid and keeps supplying the house from the panels and batteries. When it detects grid frequency again it reconnects the house to grid. It’s a fairly simple concept.

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            2 hours ago

            if there is no grid frequency detected it automatically breaks connection between the house and the grid

            Okay now try again but there is no grid.

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          5 hours ago

          So you do realize that this is exactly how HV wire detectors work right lol… You hold up a wire (or there’s a wire in the wall) carrying high voltage, and the wand will pick up the EM Field.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Because waves are frequencies. I wanted to encourage you to think about what your were arguing about.

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                    Right, it’s definitely not because you don’t know? Waves are not frequencies. Frequency is a measurement of how often something happens, typically measured in Hz. In the case of a loose piece of wire, there is nothing happening, and you can’t measure how often nothing happens. But thanks for confirming you don’t know.