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‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off
(www.theguardian.com)
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Reducing the money spent on DC-AC conversion is my main thoughts. If my power generated is all DC, my battery storage is all DC, my servers are DC, my lights, and water pumps can be DC, my car is DC, then switching from AC to just switch back to DC 20-40 feet just doesn't make sense to me.
I would like to actually find a better formula then the napkin math I've done to say when it does and doesn't have benefit.
Really want to get my hands on a Open compute Rack for my next server build and have the UPS and power rail be all 48v too (as per spec). Again why have another component to possibly fail and use power if I don't need it.
i can understand the thought process, especially if you're going to do a full DC and no AC at all setup. The problem that i have is that switching from AC mains, to DC mains is such an incredibly tall order that you have to think about literally everything you integrate fairly significantly, otherwise you're going to end up implementing AC mains as well, and then you're not in a much better spot, even though you may now have more losses, chances are you could just offset them with more production and storage, or better inversion.
It's an interesting project for sure, just not likely to be one i would ever invest time into lol.
Honestly the micro inverter on a small circuit level seems like an interesting middle to me. So I can have the ac outlets here and there, but just for non DC appliances.