So the big thing with the balcony solar to me is it can be plugged into a standard outlet and it would work without sending electricity downstream to the system somehow. So it seemed to be smart like that. Let me know if I have a misunderstanding here. So I always felt like having batteries would be useful enough without solar as you could (at least in my area) take the hourly electric rate and charge it during non peak times and have it be used during peak hours. This in addition to getting through power outages. So im kinda wondering if there are balcony battery options that would allow for this. Plug it into an outlet and setup when not to charge and when to provide power. Anyone know if this is a thing?

    • teft@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      That doesn’t seem safe to me since you’re basically pumping power back into the mains but no, I think most of the home battery backups systems have a switch that sits between the main and your house to control the flow of power in the event of a power outage.

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        Yeah it sounds like the panels have something like that. The main thing is it does not have to be wired in with an electrician.