The West has been a sad state in solar conditions for years. The only networks in the city have draconian 5 kW borders for inverters, and the rest of Australia can be given to them. Why do the western crazy sunshine hate?
Thanks to the Austrian manufacturer Fronius, there is now a 10 kW inverter option in WA. All you need is a well -trained installation program.Fronius has carried out a 12-month test program to present the western power authorities a well-researched case for the use of 10 kW in-phase inverter.
What you have proven is that a 10kW inverter with a solar array of 13.33 kW provides between 32% and 99% more energy than a standard inverter with a standard with 6.6 kW.
The larger array used to reach 5 kW editions and will be continued later until the afternoon, but the 5 -kW limit of Western Power is basically useless in winter. What is more advantageous for you and the network is the almost doubled output output in the low season.
If everyone scratching energy in winter, your Fronius system works twice as hard.
If the usage time becomes the norm, it becomes more valuable that solar is used for earlier and later in the day.
5 kW is still the limit until it is not
Western Power has decided that a limit for the absolute generation of 5 kW is still okay, but they were persuaded by the Boffinen in Fronius that the 10kW -Primo -Gen24 is commissioned via a special manual approval for which your installer requires training before applying.
It is similar to the Tesla Powerwall 3 -which could be an 11 -kW machine, is limited to 5 kW, so the Western Australian commissioning effectively gives you a power wall 2½.
However, Fronius went one step better. If you add a battery, the 10 kW -Gen24 is operated with a full capacity of 10 kW with a lattice failure.
When installing a battery, you need a “gateway” device that can be prefabricated or integrated into your switchboard.
It is not what you know, but who
The installers in the West have an important resource with the sales engineer Shane Arnold, who organizes the type of support that imposes problems before they occur. He insists that service problems are thrown out of SOS via the online support tool, but he calls on the phone there to support it.
As a 80-year-old international company, Fronius has excellent web resources, but the mere documentary volume is equally a curse. Thanks to Shane and its curated WhatsApp group, Australian installers can find Australian support material without wading through Italian, Polish or American drains.
This is not an advertorial
The skeptical reader may ask himself, but to be honest, I just like to see quality products on the wall.
Cheap customers earn what they get to a certain extent, but after years of trouble-free service, I find it a bit worrying when people are interested in chintzy battery hybrids who cannot speak to legacy devices.
I have worked for saving good devices from the e-waste created by us. Fronius build inverters that are retro compatible with new requirements for the network company. Therefore, adding more solar is not outdated.
When I installed this new Gen24 next to the SNAP, both units spoke to the Internet, but we had to wait for the firmware to talk to each other.
Roaring success
Yes, I am a Fronius Fanboi … This is a bit like a joke because Fronius inverter does better because they have fans to keep them cool.
While some of the Snap-Inverter range had two or three fans described by annoyed customers as roaring jet engine, I look at them to consider them as a purpose. With full noise, they made a lot of electricity.
Compare active and passive cooling
In response to these symptoms, the inverter of the Gen24 series received a larger heat sink and a larger fan that runs much slower so that it makes a fraction of the noise.
“The life expectancy of an electronic component is halved for each temperature increase of 10 ° C.”
Others market against this sound, with passive heat sinks that were supposedly quiet. However, they would suffer a lower yield and in some cases forced to add temperature warning stickers because it ran so hot.
So I find it amusing that the 15 kW inverter, which I installed last year, has a sneaky little fan on the back, even though the sellers say about their smaller, quieter units.
A nice piece of shape and function, it is almost a shame that these fins are covered up
Be left behind?
I spoke to installers who are all on solar employees because they are great products, have a solid story and good support.
Many really rate Goodwe as a great promise of value with a well-integrated EV charger, which Sungrow has just published.
Others tell me that Sigenergy are now the undisputed advocate of the installation speed, characteristics and aesthetics.
Nevertheless, nobody who is known to me offers a safety supply without a battery, such as the Fronius PV Point.
PV Point runs 3 kW load, provided that it is sunny. Ideal for charging devices and storing the Internet in an emergency.
Big poppy syndrome
I have complaints that Fronius simply no longer leads to innovation, they only have two input channels, they are too expensive, the BYD batteries are not big enough, the WLAN is flakes, the commissioning process is too heavy.
Nevertheless, I speak to those who run the networks, the people of Sapn, Ausnet, Powercor and the like, everyone says the same thing. Fronius are solid and your engineering team is great: “We have no worries with you” (as we do other inverter manufacturers).
And I have to point out that Fronius does not use customers for beta tests or the installers as a donkey to carry them out.
All of these competing technologies are better managed under an ecosystem
Light hybrids are not from the network
Fronius still leads its inverter with a high frequency to switch off other sunlight that they may have carried out during a failure. It would be nice to see that you offer larger units that can work in parallel but return to rational removal, I can see why you maintain a conservative position.
Gitter hybrid machines are not designed in such a way that a proper remote control system does.
Fronius does not guarantee this service. If you want to treat the network with contempt, you would like a different solution.
Fronio Gen24 first
Prepare for the future
If you are in the west and long for lower electricity invoices, solar is child’s play.
The only consistent complaint that I heard from solar owners has been “my goodness, I wish we had more”.
If you do not currently have a budget for a battery, you can use the 10kW -Fronius Gen24 Primo to achieve a solar energy of 13.33 W with the option to install a battery later.
However, it is worth examining Wagov’s interest -free credit program for batteries. This can be worth more than your prior incentive. There is also the WA battery -discount scheme that was launched this week. Just note that a VPP has joined.
In any case, you can get some quotes by clicking here. Simply make sure that you add some notes and request 10 kW Fronius quality.
Footnot
- Absolute generation limit – AGL is an confusing acronym for those of us who do not live in WA ↩
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