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Joined: 13/10/2014
Location: AustraliaPosts: 2165
| Posted: 05:08am 10 May 2026 |
This has already started to be drip fed through the media in the typical pathetic attempt to condition the sheep to ignore the planed changes, it will be good for those lesser off and you will be happy
This is just one part of the horror that is coming for us, I posted the green Home certification a while back, this will be optional of course
initially!!, and will create a $15,000 to $45,000 cost upgrade to the dwelling before you can sell you home, or even get insurance as time goes by. The roll out has already started, many reports from home owners, but just not in the MS Media. And like all these helpful regulations, they are here to save you money, trust us, you'll see.Aaron, a month or so ago, the Main Fuse in the street Green Pillar (underground power) blew, that happened when the sparky was preparing to change the Mains-Gen auto changeover switch to a Manual Mains-Gen switch. I'll might post about that in my main Inverter build, anyway, the Fuse was only a 60A and had been there for 15 years, incorrectly fitted by another sparky back then, and never corrected. I had to get the Energy supplier to do that as rules have been changed a bit, they confirmed the low value Fuse.
However, without the street backup power, I suddenly felt very vulnerable, even though we have been 100% off grid for over 12 months, the feeling that there was no fallback if the Inverter failed was very disconcerting, even though I have spare boards, mainly because of the fact that we have two Fridge Freezers crammed full of meat etc.
Anyway, I waited a month before getting the AC restored, that gave the sparky a chance to do some upgrades in-between jobs, without getting fried by un-switched street mains flowing through the Fuse box. Remember the days when the Main Power switch once did exactly that.
Anyway, by the end of the month the anxiety of no mains AC backup had pretty much gone
As I said, I have full running backup boards, but I now have decided to finish the 4kW backup inverter (WG design of course) and also start making a few of poidas and WG MPPT controllers, I have 8 boards
, that should now cover just about everything, Oh and some spare solar panels as well.Now lets hope they don't change a rule to stop properties with power from disconnecting from the grid while we still can, at the moment. Don't scoff at the thought of that, remember, shareholder $$$$$$ rule supreme.
How does that Michael Jackson song, "They don't really ........"