- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation
- Retired Electrical Contractor
Electricity is still and always will be a mystery to me. Sure I can wire pretty much anything but sometimes understanding the flow gets me.
Take a simple scenario--
Solar Panel---to---Inverter----to---main panel---to Meter. Nothing is fed from the main panel so the panels are just feeding back to the utilities. How does the utility know how much kw they are getting back from the solar panels? Does the meter turn backwards without a load? And if there are circuits in the panel how does electricity know to give power to the loads rather than back to the power company.
iT IS MAGIC TO ME.
Take a simple scenario--
Solar Panel---to---Inverter----to---main panel---to Meter. Nothing is fed from the main panel so the panels are just feeding back to the utilities. How does the utility know how much kw they are getting back from the solar panels? Does the meter turn backwards without a load? And if there are circuits in the panel how does electricity know to give power to the loads rather than back to the power company.
iT IS MAGIC TO ME.