 Balcony Power Plant 5
| Electricity fed into the outlet bypasses the fuse and must therefore not be too high . . .
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In any case, it doesn't seem possible to run the washing machine using this outlet. Apparently, even an experiment in which something breaks is not covered by the warranty, because the maximum
output current is specified as only 5.4 A.
But when we looked at the data from our electric car, we found that the current might drop to 6 A when charging with a Schuko plug. We'll definitely give that a try. The problem here is that if the level falls below
a certain point, the charging process doesn't even start.
There is also another problem. Charging with AC generally consumes more energy than charging with DC, because the current must be converted before it enters the battery. In other words, the system runs
longer than with DC power and even longer when plugged into a Schuko socket, and therefore consumes more energy.
We remain optimistic, however, and hope to be able to feed excess electricity, a common issue with large storage systems, into the electric car; after all, 5.4 A times 230 V equals 12 kWh in ten hours.
Unfortunately,
there's no turning back yet.
Vehicle To Load wasn't available until the successor to our car. We're also not sure if we would have ordered it along with the significantly more expensive equipment. For retrofitting
there is only one very expensive, rather experimental solution (E3/DC).
Electronics experts say that, in principle, there’s a direct path to the battery; all it needs is a little software that tricks the car’s controller into thinking a charging process is about to start. But when it comes to
essential safety measures, there isn't much money to be made yet.
We hope that some changes will occur in the next five years. For now, it seems you can use the system you bought to purchase cheap electricity and use that instead of the expensive kind, but not
with our outdated electricity meter.
But maybe we should also give up on the dream of a self-sufficient home this summer and keep the 'old' inverter, in other words, not dream of a three-phase system and save on costs. The solution is,
even today, as astonishing as it is simple.
What will we have in five years? A solar power system for which we no longer receive a single cent, or at least far too little. What does the Solakon One have to offer? A power outlet with truly
surprising features.
Why? Because it's bidirectional. What does that mean? It can not only supply, but also take power. Now we really need to figure out how much of that we’re allowed to feed into the grid and whether
that’s enough to cover the maximum output of the 'old' solar system. But we don't.
Because ChatGPT has once again reminded us that the “old” inverter must not be connected directly to the Solakon outlet, as this would prevent the essential synchronization via the
power grid. But it won't throw us off track.
Final idea: We connect the 'old' solar panels to the house's electrical grid and, in principle, draw the same amount of electricity from it as we feed into it. And ChatGPT says that's possible. How long did it
take before we finally found a viable solution?
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