[RFI] Solar Panel Inverters

[Raymond Benny]

Jim,

I have 24 solar panels with a German made SMA inverter and no noise.
Frontus (sp) is another good inverter.

Typically, the solar panels themselves do not generate noise, HOWEVER,
those panels with individual inverters build in often create RFI which is
difficult to reduce, and never eliminated completely.

It would be worth your time to go back 3 - 5 years into the RFI archives
and see the issues.

I think the ones your family is looking at are or were one of the worse RFI
generators unless their panels have been redesigned with RFI elimination
mind.

Ray
N6VR/W7YA

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 10:19 AM Christopher Wawak <kc2ieb at wawak.org> wrote:

> From what I've read, the quality of installation is far more important than
> what equipment they're using. The big problem is incorrect installation
> (essentailly creating a big loop antenna), though I do believe there are
> micro-inverters that are unreasonably noisy.
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 12:02 PM jimk8mr--- via RFI <rfi at contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My son-in-law & daughter are considering solar panels for their home.
> > Since I occasionally visit there with radios, and for a general interest
> in
> > doing things right, can somebody spare me a lot of searching and offer a
> > quick report on solar panel inverters?
> > Right now their leading proposal uses the Harvest system with its Enphase
> > micro-inverters. Are these good, bad, or meh? Any particular brands of
> > inverters to recommend or avoid?
> >
> > I have followed the topic enough to understand the concepts of twisted
> > pairs, skipping panels to loop back wiring, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim   K8MR
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