I know these guys who know chapter and verse about making inverters, but just make the best charge controllers these days, I think they have crossed paths with Heart Akerson, and wonder what they thought about this new inverter/smart grid/inverter/transverter.
I can see potential even as a solely 'Offgrid Guy' for people who want to grow a system, it appears modular, so a new to solar off grid person, could buy this inverter with his 12v system and add units as their system grew, and when they changed their battery bank it would work with them.
It's now ETL listed, so we should see this showing up more often...
The rest is cut and pasted from my post at NAWS, that drew no opinions.
Ok I heard this mentioned in an earlier post with some huge price tag, but I just got a sales Email(from sunelec) it's priced at $1000.
It's from Heart, who I believe has done mostly camper and emergency vehicle inverters in the past(from my aging memory, heck my memory had them bought up by Trace/Xantrex)
It appears to accept, 12-48volt DC input, has high efficiency 93%, and if I'm reading it right, can be off grid or back feed the grid.
Info From Them Here; http://www.transverter.com/Heart%20Transverter%20Spec%20V3.pdf
Short article Here; http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/heart-transverters-new-smart-grid-inverter-improves-demand-response-times/
I see lots of applications, if only growing a helper in growing a system, appears modular, I need to read up more on these thingy.
Your links don't work.
Sorry I copied the basic html off NAWS, I added proper links, since I could just modify the post.
Here's their home site; http://www.transverter.com/
Doesnt seem to be a lot inside the thing, must be DSP. The basic premises are attractive, but my in built BS detecter is crackling away. Ill wait for experts to chime in i guess.
appears to be at the toy stage still: (from their spec sheet)
Maximum Nominal Battery Voltage 42 volts
Maximum Open Circuit Photovoltaic Voltage 50 volts
Maximum Continuous AC Output Power 2,000 watts (117 VAC)
AC to DC Isolation Fully isolated ( WTF is THAT a spec ?????)
Operating Temperature Range -60 °C - 43 °C
43°C / 110°F means some areas, you have to have it in the air conditioned building envelope.
No indication you can "stack" to get 240VAC out of 2 of them.
BUT, the "T13X Smart Grid Panel" module seems to be a great step toward a household power management system.
Says it's passed ETL, and there target market is micro grid, and individual partial grid tied, Definitely still early, doesn't appear to support 48v battery banks.
Appears to have some power management and programmability things going for it, for people like my self who are over paneled.
Also looks like the only inverter which is addressing the 'smart grid' application of solar, allowing the power company to shut down/reduce? the input into the grid, a brick wall that Germany is rapidly approaching.