I turned them off before the recent inclement weather as advised by our local council.

I meant to do it last week, but I kept forgetting.

I turned the DC and the AC back on in the reverse of the order suggested for turning them off.

I watched the panels from across the road for a bit, to watch for anything obviously amiss. (I assume sparks, smoke and fire to be the obvious problems to watch for). We didn’t and up getting hit by the terrible weather event, so I wasn’t too worried.

The panels seemed to come up ok.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    10·
    3 days ago

    Nope, basically all solar inverters will switch off if the grid goes down. They need the 50hz signal to synchronise. Even with a battery, unless you buy the separate box, your battery will switch off without the grid.

    • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      5·
      3 days ago

      There are hybrid inverters that support dark start (no grid) but yes, as you mentioned, they only do this when they have internally dropped the grid feed, to prevent such a back feed event.