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Old 08-17-22, 08:23 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Elcam84 View Post
The solar "charger" has one important function. You program into it the ampacity of the circuit you are feeding it with. So it could be a 20 amp or 30 amp etc circuit so it knows how much it can pull from the circuit.
The simple part of it is you have to run a dedicated circuit to it by code so no funny business with other solutions.
Adding the second breaker in a box makes the original circuit into a feeder for the new breaker box which would be a subpanel. And then you have dedicated circuits from the subpanel going to the original load as well as the solar inverter.

Not sure how the automated switch idea would go, it's functionally equivalent to the two loads having plugs with only one able to plug in at a time.
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