Hello. I'm new to the forum. I am installing a mostly DIY 66-panel, 2x FlexBoss, 1x GridBoss system that will have battery backup as soon as I decide which route to take for those. My questions are AC-side so I'm not certain this forum is proper, but I thought I'd try.
I have a 400A (320A) service with two 200A main panels, both ground-neutral bonded. I plan to use the GridBoss to take one of the panels and either wire the second panel to pull from the 125A Smart Port on the GridBoss and wire a subpanel for the 3 heat pump heat strips that I don't think the GridBoss and the 3/0 wire can handle, or wire up a 200A transfer switch for the second panel.
ONCOR in North Texas requires a visible disconnect outside to take the solar power completely away from the grid service. I would like to install two 100A disconnect switches within 10 feet of the meter, one coming from each FlexBoss and running back into the GridBoss from there.Â
Question #1: I would like recommendations from anyone with experience backing up a house that occasionally needs more amperage than the 3/0 200A wire going into the GridBoss and how they wired it. The ideas above (transfer switch or subpanel) are the best I can come up with.
Question #2: Can I have two, properly labeled, disconnect switches to shut down the solar backfeed to grid, or do I need to combine the FlexBoss output into a single 200A disconnect switch, then split it back out to run into the GridBoss?
Hopefully all of that makes sense.
Thank you all for your time.
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Greg
Replying to myself for an option that might work better:
Living in North Texas, it doesn't get that cold here very often. I could just turn off the breakers for the heat strips. I'd have to think about how to wire it in such a way that if I find that the heat pumps can't keep the house warm enough in the winters, I could possible redo the wires without ripping everything out and starting over. That shouldn't be hard though.
If I did that, I could run everything through the GridBoss, probably. My last thing to figure out is if I can have two service disconnects outside next to the meter.
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Thoughts?
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Greg