AC Diversion Load, Part 7

Some partly cloudy weather afforded a chance to test both diversion loads working at the same time independently as well as in share and assist modes.

With cloud edge effects, I saw the highest PV input power on the hybrid inverter, bringing in 1314W out of a panel peak rating of 1340W. I would never see that before because in off grid mode, the batteries would be charged before the peak power hit and the MPPT charge controller would have rolled off PV input power. Now in hybrid mode, the charge controller tries to bring in peak power all the time, sending any excess into the house.

The automation code works in "dimmer steps" and thus each portion of the code computes a new dimmer increment, which could be positive or negative. Then all those increments are added to the current dimmer setting to compute a new dimmer setting. That new setting is compared to the current setting and if needed, the dimmer is changed.

Hardware:
In-wall dimmer: https://amzn.to/3qughPz
Ceramic heat lamp https://amzn.to/3jpdcP8
HEM Gen5 https://amzn.to/3iEgf4i

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Intro/Outro:
Louisiana Fairytale by Austin Rogers
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