240V regulations?

[oldtrack123]

Most of the time I did not know what was going on ????
Bernie

Hi Bernie
That situation is quite common in large orginazations
I did not have DIRECT control of those electricians day by day activities.
Each workshop had one or more electricians, some with an electrical foreman

But I was, as the contractors license holder, held to be responsable person & contact
Anything wrong & I had to find the answers & sort it out & satisfy the authorities that corrective action had been taken.
That did include many electrical shocks & one electrocution, plus dodgy work .
The moon lighting only came to light when FAULT notices came to me

PeterQ

[BruceS]

Busily reading up on this project!!!
http://forums.energymatters.com.au/wind ... c5188.html

[T1 Terry]

A bit of a laugh, I have 9360Wh, or 9.36kWh of lithium battery storage for the house and it didn't cost me anything like the $17,000 he estimates for 10kWh, no idea what planet these people are from, sure not this one.

[jon_d]

Terry,

Have you gone off grid for the house?

jd

[T1 Terry]

Terry,

Have you gone off grid for the house?

jd

If we were going to stay here I would for sure, but as we plan to get on the road when we can, I think the house would be very difficult to rent or put house sitters in or sell, if I took it off the grid. I still need to finish removing the top of the big gum tree as well, it shades the solar for half the day from late autumn, winter and early spring. Still enough to power the 3 fridges, solar hot water controller and pumps, battery charger for the bus lights and the back patio lights, the internet modem, my computer.... but it might be a squeeze for the rest of the house. The griller and fan for the oven and after cooling is electric, the 2500w heater lights in the bathroom, the 1000w microwave, the 3.5Kw water heater booster, the electric jug, toaster, coffee percolator, rice cooker...... without the shade from the tree I could put the rest of the solar panels I have up and we could do it with the big inverter, but for the moment we are using the grid to power the heavy stuff. Power bills are about 1/4 of what they were, but a teenage son moving out helped that a lot as well
The rain got into the PL20 a few days ago and sent it a bit crazy, but I pulled it apart today, a quick clean with Wurth contact cleaner and a toothbrush and all is well again, back to around 100 amps coming in from the solar between the rain and the tree shade periods so I'm happy with that.

[Izabarack]

...........or is it just the 240V that is MAINS connected?

A few years ago when I was involved with a whole lot of "alternative" people, we did establish that the "Regulations" are only applicable when the work or installation is to be connected to the state grid, and if the state legislation mandates a particular regulation or standard. In more recent years, that has been confirmed (paid legal advice) when I was involved when doing a whole pile of rapid prototyping for Defence. In the Defence situation, a whole lot of engineering oversight supervised the practice and signed off the work. A lot of that work also required getting "C" tick approval. In the alternative context, there was a nod towards the regulations for guidelines but if no-one died, and it worked, No Harm - No Foul. I do remember many a discussion of what is safe as different from compliant and safe was the default condition if I was involved. I also remember one situation where the owner of a RAPS had the state authority run a line close enough for connection, some time after the stand alone had been up and running. The Eleco who came out to check the system and installation out picked it as a home-built immediately because the job was too well done to be a professional jobbie.

In a related observation, I note that even 1000 Watt generators are now on the market sporting 15 Amp GPOs so people no longer have to use the ubiquitous "cheater" cords.

Iza

[BruceS]

Thankyou Iza. I did sort of expect that is/was the case but ofcourse it's still best to get an experienced, trained person to do any 240V AC jobs.