Timeline for Does a common neutral between solar inverter and utility affect current measurement?
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 0:11 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Sep 11, 2020 at 4:53 | answer | added | vu2nan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 21:28 | answer | added | Muhammad Bishar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 18:43 | vote | accept | Zishan Neno | ||
| Mar 19, 2019 at 9:04 | comment | added | Marko Buršič | Not necessarily the UPS has a galvanic isolation between input and output. Connecting a neutral wire to some of its outputs would blow the UPS instantly. | |
| Mar 19, 2019 at 3:24 | comment | added | D.A.S. | otherwise measure differential V loss | |
| Mar 19, 2019 at 0:59 | comment | added | D.A.S. | you should measure the loss on neutral by the voltage difference under full charge and load then decide if you can afford to correct it using earth referenced voltages | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 22:14 | comment | added | Zishan Neno | @AlKepp I've updated my question above with an diagram which might probably explain it better. By "saving costs" I meant that I'm only running a single wire from the inverter to appliances and using a common neutral wire that's shared between the utility and the inverter. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 22:12 | history | edited | Zishan Neno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added diagram
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 21:43 | answer | added | Dwayne Reid | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 21:17 | comment | added | Al Kepp | "to save the costs"... please can you explain this? And I don't get what you mean by: "EM still measure the current when using the neutral as common". | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 21:02 | history | asked | Zishan Neno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |