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cdine
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  #3424501 12-Oct-2025 19:31
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Have you looked at the Sigenergy Sigenstor products? I just had a solar system installed along with that, which includes whole-house backup.

 

Their gateway product (mine is the HomeMax TP AU) is perhaps most relevant here for what you're talking about - it supports input from multiple inverters (so you could retrofit now, and add more inverter capacity later), and you can choose to route full backup (from an inverter) to your main panel, or to a sub-panel with another non-backup output feeding the main panel. From what I gather, it wouldn't be horrendously difficult (all things considered) to swap that up down the line, should you increase your storage capacity (fairly standard AC electrical panel work).




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  #3424520 12-Oct-2025 23:19
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billgates:

 

@Ge0rge its best to ring your local lines provider and confirm with them in writing what they will and will not allow. Different lines company around NZ provide different level of flexibility for what they will allow you to do for a device. for eg if the device is setup as a UPS with battery, you do not need any approvals. But in one of the five cases of pdh, they mentioned the MPII is functioning as an inverter and not just UPS with a battery connected that provides backup power to another sub panel which does have a grid isolator switch setup, so it won't back feed to the grid. This is essentially islanding the house. This part should require approval from lines company, so I am interested to know if @pdh had to get approval.

 

As for your use case, which is similar to what I have described above, some of the lines company are happy for you to proceed with an inverter not on the approved list, if it has the AS/NZS 4777.2:2020 compliance built in or if you get lucky and they are ok for you to use a compliant device like the Tele grid NA003 to isolate the house from grid. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This setup is Grid tied running in parallel and setup for AS4777.2.2020. (You can set the Grid profile in the Inverter which needs to be done for NZ and the relevant standards are in the Software)

 

Lines company really didn't ask any Questions, only condition's were that all settings that they provided matched and lined up with what they required and through Testing of the on Grid failure and re-livening on Grid being re energized.

 

Also it had to be inspected and signed off due to it being Solar, Mains parallel and Grid feedback.

 

Also if you look at the Clean energy council website now, you will see that the Multiplus II 48/8000, 48/10000 and the 48/15000 have now all been approved to be Grid tied.

 

 

On a Good day this setup will easily push 30Kw back to the Grid! While still running the whole house with all the servers!


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  #3424537 13-Oct-2025 09:06
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We had a scheduled power outage on Friday for 8 hours. This was my first full check of the Solar/Tesla Powerwall 2 since it was installed 5 years ago. Everything ran perfectly. The solar panel charged the powerwall and ran the house just fine (being a Friday, everyone was at work). I was chatting on the Powerwall forums, and you need to dump power into the house if it gets close to 100% (they recommended sitting at about 50%) to avoid the system shutting the solar down or cycling things on and off. Super nice to have had a real world test.

 

 

 

 

 




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  #3424548 13-Oct-2025 09:54
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We now have a SigEnergy Inverter and Battery plus the gateway, with 10.8kWp in panels.

 

Haven't had a power outage yet but I've done a couple of simulations by turning off the mains / grid connection, once during the day and once at night without any solar.

 

The system didn't miss a beat and you'd never know the grid had gone out bar the notification from the mySigen app.

 

 





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